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Top 10 WordPress Countdown Timer Plugins

If you run a contest or host an event, countdown timer is a good way to attract attention of visitors and keep them informed about the upcoming event or contest. We have listed the best 10 WordPress countdown timer plugins including both free and paid ones. We hope that you will find our list useful for your website or blog.

List of top 10 WordPress countdown timer plugins:

1. Countdown Timer

Countdown Timer allows you to setup one or more dates to count down to or away from in terms of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. You can easily add events into the sidebar using the widget or can also add them within pages and posts with use of shortcodes.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 176,779
Ratings: 3.7 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.9.1

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2. T (-) Countdown

T (-) Countdown displays a customizable jQuery countdown timer as a sidebar widget or in a post or page using shortcode. It is a perfect choice when you want to inform website visitors of an upcoming event. Its customizable countdown timer offers great viewing pleasure.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 127,548
Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.8.3

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3. Uji Countdown

Uji Countdown allows you to display a countdown on your post or page. It offers you the easiest way to place your HTML5 countdown timer. You can easily customize colors for text and background, customize boxes color, enable animation, set the texts for date and time, and lots more features.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 95,238
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.9.1

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4. Easy Timer

It allows you to easily display a countdown/timer to your posts, pages and widgets of your website. Each countdown timer shows the time remaining until the date you choose. Each timer also allows you to schedule an automatic content modification.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 68,282
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.9.1

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5. WordPress Countdown Widget

With this simple widget, you can add countdown timers to your site easily. It supports color customizations and multiple instances. You can also customize the appearance with CSS and there’s no coding required.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 47,077
Ratings: 3.7 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.5.2

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6. Countdown Clock

With countdown clock plugin, you can display an animated countdown clock on your sidebar. You can choose from a range of designs, colors and sizes along with selecting animations and pictures like falling confetti background, and more. This HTML5 countdown detects device and serves flash, HTML5, and javascript progressively.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 44,989
Ratings: 2.9 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.8.3

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7. WP Coming Soon

This simple to use plugin adds a countdown clock in the Coming Soon page of your website. It uses Keith Wood jQuery and when you want to use the countdown timer, simply use a shortcode and you are done.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 23,520
Ratings: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.5.2

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8. Deal Or Announcement With Countdown Timer

This plugin offers you the simplest way to display your announcement with a countdown timer. You can add any number of deals at dashboard and is best suitable for showing promotional offers to the users with countdown time.

Cost: Free
Downloads: 23,029
Ratings: 3.9 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.9.1

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9. jCountdown Mega Package for WordPress

This premium, highly customizable plugin lets you easily create/load shortcodes in the admin panel, so that you can easily add countdowns in your post, pages and sidebar.

Cost: $12 for regular license
Purchases: 787
Ratings: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.8

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10. AJDE Maintenance Mode Countdown Timer

This premium WP plugin adds a countdown timer splash screen to your website at the website maintenance stage. It updates percentage completely via progress bar and shows the timer in 8 different languages. It has simple countdown timer settings in the settings panel.

Cost: $14 for regular license
Purchases: 348
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.6

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THE FINAL WORDS

Countdown Timer Plugins are an exciting way to keep your visitors engaged and continuously remind them of an upcoming event. Do you use countdown plugin on your blog or website? Have you found it useful? Share your views with us in the comment section below.

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