{"id":94482,"date":"2012-08-20T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=94482"},"modified":"2013-04-27T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T00:16:02","slug":"wordpress-countdown-widget-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-countdown-widget-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a WordPress.com Style Countdown Timer Widget for Your Self-Hosted Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GetIn my opinion, there is no contest between WordPress.com<\/a> and self-hosted WordPress. I’ll take ownership of my site every day of the week, thank you very much.<\/p>\n

But for all of its limitations, WordPress.com does offer up some pretty cool features. One such feature is a “milestone” widget, in which you can easily insert a rather elegantly styled countdown to an event.<\/p>\n

But with a new plugin released today on the WordPress.org repository<\/a>, you can now have your own milestone widget for your self-hosted blog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

Milestone<\/h2>\n

The Milestone<\/a> plugin is an absolute piece of cake to set up. It is available in the widgets section of your blog, and comes with a few basic fields for you to fill in. Here’s an example of a widget that counts down to my birthday:<\/p>\n

\"Milestone\"<\/p>\n

The message is what will be displayed when the countdown is completed. Everything else is self-explanatory. This is the end result:<\/p>\n

\"Milestone\"<\/p>\n

And this is what you would see if my birthday were on 20th August (today):<\/p>\n

\"Milestone\"<\/p>\n

Download Milestone here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> This plugin worked fine when we last tested it [May\/2023], however, it is no longer maintained or supported.<\/em><\/p>\n

Creative Commons image courtesy of\u00a0doegox<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upcoming special occasion? Showcase it with the Milestone plugin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84405,"featured_media":94487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-94482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-wordpresscom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217114,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94482\/revisions\/217114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94482"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=94482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}