Super Advent Calendar

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
• Access controls: control when a door can be opened
• Grid layout: customize with grid columns and rows
• Styles: choose a festive default style or create your own
• Appearance: select a font size and change background and text colors
• Animations: choose your revealing animation
• Content presentation: define the content, utilize shortcodes, and choose a presentation style
• 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.

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

1.8.1: Sep 27, 2024

• Fix: bad path construction on Windows hosts
• Change: upgrade libraries

1.8.0: Sep 17, 2024

• Add: background and gradient color selection to advent calendar block
• Change: upgrade libraries

1.7.0: Aug 26, 2024

• Add: ability to adjust font size via block settings
• Change: upgrade libraries

1.6.1: Aug 11, 2024

• Change: advent calendar block open effects panel by default
• Fix: select default block style on advent calendar block

1.6.0: Aug 02, 2024

• Add: allow usage of shortcodes inside the content
• Change: improve the styling of the default themes
• Change: update help text below back content on the editor panel
• Change: wordpress.org screenshots
• Fix: duplicating a calendar does not reset ids

1.5.0: Jul 28, 2024

• Add: grid layout and padding controls
• Add: aspect ratio control to day block
• Change: upgrade libraries
• Fix: rest api call for opening an entry when not logged in

1.4.0: Jun 30, 2024

• Add: advent calendar block alignment options (e.g. none, wide, full)
• Change: remove unneeded slot fills

1.3.0: May 28, 2024

• Change: make slot info private (cannot be viewed from the page source)
• Change: update installation instructions

1.2.0: May 23, 2024

• Add: color picker and change colors of the cards

Earlier versions

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

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.