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Widgets: Countdown

Increase engagement and create a sense of excitement with the Countdown widget that enables you to add a real-time countdown to your site.

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Written by Justin
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Use it to keep visitors informed, build interest, and encourage them to take action by letting them know when a sale, event or promotion is going to end, or when a new product, collection or page is going to launch.

For information on adding widgets, see Add Widgets.

Tip

Fore more information on widgets and the widgets library, see Widgets: Library and Overview.

Content Editor

To access the content editor, right click the widget and select Edit Content. Or, if you are in flex mode or Editor 2.0, the option to access the content editor is available in the floating menu.

  1. Set the date and time the countdown ends. Select a timezone. To set a specific time (for example 11:45pm), after clicking into the drop-down field, type in the desired time in the format hh:mm am/pm, for example 11:45pm).

  2. Type a Time's up message that appears after the countdown ends.

Note

The long text field provides various text formatting options, such as italicizing, bolding, or underlining text.

  • Select to Show counter at 0000 and message beneath it, or to Remove counter and display message only.

3. Type a Title for the countdown. To hide the title, click the eye icon.

Design Editor

To access the design editor, right-click the element, and click Edit Design. Or if you are in flex mode or Editor 2.0, select Edit Design from the floating menu to open the design panel.

Click the layout to change the way the countdown displays on your site.

Make sure the design settings you define are correct per device. Settings such as spacing, image size and more are defined per device. For more information, see Edit by Device.

For information about design options that are not specific to this widget (for example, layout, style, or spacing), see Widget Design.
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Examples

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