Super Advent Calendar

Description

WordPress Advent Calendar Plugin

Give your website a festive makeover this holiday season with Super Advent Calendar! Easily add a fun, dynamic calendar that adapts to whatever you need. Pick from a bunch of cool pre-built styles or create your own unique design. Whether you’re hosting holiday giveaways or just counting down the days, this plugin’s got you covered. Customize every door, front to back, to create the perfect vibe for your visitors. Plus, with eye-catching animations and special effects, your calendar is sure to stand out!

Free Features

  • Flexible entries: control how many doors your calendar has
  • Layout: customize with grid columns and rows
  • Animations: choose a revealing animation
  • Themes: choose a festive default theme or create your own
  • Schedule: control when a door can be opened
  • Content: add content such as text, links or embeds (via shortcodes)
  • Appearance: open a link, a modal or show directly
  • Styles: change typography, padding, colors and dimensions for each slot
  • Guarded: daily surprises unlocked each day, previous and future content remains hidden
  • More to come! This is an early version of the plugin. We’re actively improving and adding new features

Premium Features

  • Images: personalize the calendar by adding your own images
  • Animations: 8 additional revealing animations
  • Special effects: such as different types of confetti and falling snow (upon opening)
  • Premium support

Learn more about the Premium version.

Translation Ready

Speak another language? You can help make Super Advent Calendar available in your language! Join our translation project on WordPress.org and contribute to translating the plugin for the global community.

Documentation

You can find the documentation on our site.

Screenshots

  • Create an Advent Calendar
  • You can also show content in a modal
  • Change the layout and add animations
  • Select a default theme or create your own
  • Add and schedule content to unlock at a certain date/time
  • Change colors, typography and dimensions per day
  • Super Advent Calendar premium lets you add images to personalize the calendar
  • Super Advent Calendar premium also lets you choose from special effects
  • You can use shortcodes in the content to display a form for example

Blocks

This plugin provides 2 blocks.

  • Advent Calendar Display an advent calendar
  • Advent Calendar Day Display a day in the advent calendar

Installation

  1. Upload super-advent-calendar folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Go to any post or page and search for the ‘Advent Calendar’ block.

FAQ

Where can I find the documentation?

You can find the documentation at: verdant.studio/plugins/super-advent-calendar

Does this plugin work with Divi, Elementor, and other page builders?

Yes, the Super Advent Calendar plugin is designed as a Gutenberg block, but you can also use it with page builders like Divi, Elementor, and others by using a shortcode. Add the Gutenberg block to a Gutenberg page and load the Advent Calendar via a shortcode inside a page designed with your page builder. For detailed instructions, check our page builder documentation.

Reviews

29 Noyabr 2024
What I Liked: Easy Setup: Installing the plugin was a breeze. Within minutes, I had the advent calendar up and running on my site. Scheduled Content: Setting up different content for each day was straightforward. I scheduled images, special offers, and holiday greetings to reveal on specific dates. Responsive Design: The calendar looked great on both desktop and mobile devices, ensuring all my visitors had a seamless experience.
23 Oktyabr 2024
A handy plugin for creating an advent calendar, there aren’t many of these about! The support for this is superb and they respond quickly to any issues.
23 Oktyabr 2024
Exactly what we were looking for. No errors or complications, easy to use. Many thanks for that!
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Contributors & Developers

“Super Advent Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Super Advent Calendar” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

1.13.3: Dec 3, 2024

  • Fix: extend not override the view settings

1.13.2: Dec 2, 2024

  • Fix: enqueue order of the shortcodes

1.13.1: Nov 29, 2024

  • Fix: overlay offset on mobile devices

1.13.0: Nov 27, 2024

  • Add: controls to change modal width
  • Add: controls to change modal font sizes
  • Add: apply vertical scroll inside modal when content becomes too large
  • Change: swap deprecated gutenberg api controls with their replacements
  • Change: upgrade libraries
  • Fix: linebreaks being applied inside shortcodes
  • Fix: centering the modal on the page relative to current position

1.12.1: Nov 16, 2024

  • Fix: opening a door in deeply nested blocks
  • Fix: make sure post exists

1.12.0: Nov 14, 2024

  • Add: super-advent-calendar shortcode to display the Gutenberg block via a shortcode
  • Add: super-advent-calendar-link shortcode to insert links within the back content

1.11.2: Nov 13, 2024

  • Change: upgrade libraries
  • Fix: new lines / breaks on the back content of the card

1.11.1: Nov 6, 2024

  • Fix: re-init wpcf7 after content render (if contact form 7 is used)

1.11.0: Oct 31, 2024

  • Add: controls to change text and background color for the back of the card
  • Add: controls to change text and background color for the modal
  • Change: move advent calendar day colors to the styles panel
  • Change: improvements to colors panel
  • Change: upgrade libraries
  • Fix: force focus color on dialog content to prevent theme conflicts

1.10.0: Oct 21, 2024

  • Add: ability to open a link when opening a door
  • Change: upgrade libraries

1.9.1: Oct 12, 2024

  • Fix: incorrect wp version requirement

1.9.0: Oct 07, 2024

  • Change: improve date validation
  • Change: make start and end time optional when either are set
  • Change: improve style of dialog exit button, remove outline and apply default color
  • Fix: iOS Safari/Chrome bug where modal would sometimes immediately close

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on verdant.studio.