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WordPress: Post Countdown Plugin

Posted on October 26th, 2009 under How To's. | 6 Comments

UPDATE: Support for this plugin has moved to Headway Marketing.

Have you ever wanted to countdown to a milestone post? Here is the code needed to display a countdown to, say your 1000^th post.

<?php
$post_count = wp_count_posts();
$published_posts = $post_count->publish;
$countdown = 1000-$published_posts;
echo $countdown;
?>

Update: Now You Can Use This Handy Plugin

Download Plugin: WordPress Post Countdown Plugin

Plugin Features

• Use a title or don’t use a title, it’s there if you want it.
• Add some text before and after the countdown number
• Countdown to what ever post milestone you want

Plugin Installation

Simply unzip the file and use your favorite FTP client to upload post-countdown.php into the wp-content/plugins/ directory. Proceed to your widget management dashboard and configure accordingly.

More detailed wp_count_posts(); tag information.