Normally a countdown groups the units of time (weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds) into a single countdown unit. But what if you wanted to break out these units and have them displayed on different parts of the page?
Step One. We will need to add a new attribute that tells the countdown NOT to display any of the digits. This way all the countdown scripts and details are still loaded, but the countdown is not displayed. Something like:
[tminus cid="123" hidden="true" style="cloud-city"/]
Step Two. A new shortcode will need to be created for displaying the time unit. We will need to know the countdown id (cid) the time unit to be displayed, and the style to be used, if other than the default style set up on the plugin settings. If a custom style is used it must be defined in both the countdown and the units like so:
[[tminus_digit cid="123" unit="hours" style="cloud-city"/]]
The final set will be to modify the countdown script to locate the time units, even if they are not wrapped in a countdown dashboard.
Let’s get started.
Here is a hidden countdown:
Now we add all the digits, starting with weeks:
[tminus_digit cid=”281″ id=”explode” unit=”weeks” style=”cloud-city” omitweeks=”false”/]
Days:
[tminus_digit cid=”281″ id=”explode” unit=”days” style=”cloud-city”/]
Hours:
[tminus_digit cid=”281″ id=”explode” unit=”hours” style=”cloud-city”/]
Minutes:
[tminus_digit cid=”281″ id=”explode” unit=”minutes” style=”cloud-city”/]
Seconds:
[tminus_digit cid=”281″ id=”explode” unit=”seconds” style=”cloud-city”/]
