Title: Before You Are Dead Countdown Author: anou Published: April 8, 2014 Last modified: November 5, 2014 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev =896531) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/before-you-are-dead-countdown_f9f9f9. svg) # Before You Are Dead Countdown By [anou](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anou/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown.1.5.4.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/) ## Description The Before You Are Dead (BYAD) Countdown provides a simple widget witch displays a countdown timer with Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds and optionally, Years. You can configure some settings: Final date, Final time in the day, Final date format, Your final words and Years display. #### Plugin Features * You can display the BYAD Countdown via: - a Widget - a Shortcode * BYAD Countdown implements some **filters** to use with _add\_filter()_ function: - _byad\_date\_data_ > array( byadRegional, byadIcon) for jquery datepicker in admin. Useful for localization. Default in french. (see – _byad-settings. php_ – around line 131). Check code example in [**help-code.txt**](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/trunk/help-code.txt) file. - _byad\_title_ > filter for the widget title output. (see – _byad-countdown\ _widget.php_ – around line 25) - _byad\_timezone_ > to set timezone for date php functions. Default: ‘Europe/ Paris’. (see – _byad-countdown\_widget.php_ – around line 42) - _byad\_jsdata_ > to configure data passed to the main – _byad-countdown.js_– file displaying and activating your “last time of life”. (see – _byad-countdown\ _widget.php_ – around line 53) * You can also: - use your own css using this simple action hook: _byad\_stylesheet_. - use your own datepicker JS language file using this other action hook: _byad\ _datepicker\_lang_. - Check examples in [**help-code.txt**](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/trunk/help-code.txt) file. ### Localizations BYAD Countdown distributes with translations for the following languages: * English* Français * Italiano Don’t see your language on the list? There is a – byad-countdown-default.po – in the languages/ directory. Use it with [Poedit](http://www.poedit.net/) as a base. PO file for your language. Save it as: byad-countdown-LANGCODE.po where LANGCODE is your language code (e.g. fr_FR). If you create any, I’ll be glad to include it in the plugin. * [Link to Languages Codes](http://fr.termwiki.com/TWSpecial:ISO_Language_Code_Comparison) * Link to the excellent [Poedit software](http://www.poedit.net) * See also my [**help-code.txt**](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/trunk/help-code.txt) file for more info. ## Screenshots * [[ * Default countdown look * [[ * Settings for the countdown * [[ * Look it twice and in french ## Installation This section describes how to install the plugin and stay alive. 1. Upload _before-you-are-dead-countdown/_ folder to the _/wp-content/plugins/_ directory. 2. Activate the plugin through the – Plugins – menu in WordPress. 3. In the Plugins main page, click – Settings – under the plugin’s name or go to the options panel under the – Settings > BYAD Countdown – and select the day of your death, your death date format, fill your last words, and choose to enable/disable Years display. 4. Have fun before it’s to late! ## FAQ None. Everybody RIP. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/20f70e61054e6ae673edda3c0dc13670e46e51786443041c70a7eb2da859ae2a? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Alone and counting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alone-and-counting/)󠁿 [anou](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anou/) September 23, 2019 Everybody using this plugin must be dead… So even if I’m the plugin’s author, I must say, you don’t really die at the end of this countdown! [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Before You Are Dead Countdown” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ anou ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anou/) [Translate “Before You Are Dead Countdown” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/before-you-are-dead-countdown/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/before-you-are-dead-countdown/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/before-you-are-dead-countdown/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/before-you-are-dead-countdown/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.5.4 * Added option to specify the time (HH:MM:SS) of the day you want to die (you can even specify the seconds for the really precise ones) * Tested in WP 4.0 #### 1.5.3 * Changed the donate link #### 1.5.2 * Bug with the readme file… #### 1.5.1 * Compatibility with WP 3.9 * Improved date format settings * Updated translations (EN,FR & IT) #### 1.5 * Added Italian language * Included – jquery.ui.i18n.all.js – file. This way every languages are possible for the datepicker. * Removed js/datepicker-fr.js #### 1.4 * Added shortcode funtionnality [byad_countdown title=”Your-custom-title”] (title optional) * Renamed classes from …_CountDown_… to …_Countdown_… for best practices * Changed and insure existence of a default widget title * Added action: “byad_datepicker_lang” to facilitate the enqueueing of other datepicker languages * Updated .PO files #### 1.3 * Changed version number. * Reordered options settings fields #### 1.2 * Changed version number. #### 1.1 * Fixed date format bug. * Added new option #### 1.0 * Beginning of the rest of my life. ## Meta * Version **1.5.4** * Last updated **12 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.0.38** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown/) * Tags * [countdown](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/countdown/)[Counter](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/counter/) [javascript](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/javascript/)[timer](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/timer/) [widget](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/before-you-are-dead-countdown/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/before-you-are-dead-countdown/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ anou ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anou/) ## Support Got something to say? 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