Description
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
- Layout: customize with grid columns and rows
- Animations: choose a revealing animation
- Themes: choose a festive default theme or create your own
- Schedule: control when a door can be opened
- Content: add content such as text, links or embeds (via shortcodes)
- Appearance: open a link, a modal or show directly
- Styles: change typography, padding, colors and dimensions for each slot
- Guarded: daily surprises unlocked each day, previous and future content remains hidden
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)
- Save state: keep doors open on future visits
- 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.
Screenshots
Create an Advent Calendar 
You can also show content in a modal 
Change the layout and add animations 
Select a default theme or create your own 
Add and schedule content to unlock at a certain date/time 
Change colors, typography and dimensions per day 
Super Advent Calendar premium lets you add images to personalize the calendar 
Super Advent Calendar premium also lets you choose from special effects 
You can use shortcodes in the content to display a form for example
Blocks
This plugin provides 2 blocks.
- Advent Calendar Display an advent calendar
- Advent Calendar Day Display a day in the advent calendar
Installation
- Upload
super-advent-calendarfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Go to any post or page and search for the ‘Advent Calendar’ block.
FAQ
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Where can I find the documentation?
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You can find the documentation at: verdant.studio/plugins/super-advent-calendar
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Does this plugin work with Divi, Elementor, and other page builders?
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Yes, the Super Advent Calendar plugin is designed as a Gutenberg block, but you can also use it with page builders like Divi, Elementor, and others by using a shortcode. Add the Gutenberg block to a Gutenberg page and load the Advent Calendar via a shortcode inside a page designed with your page builder. For detailed instructions, check our page builder documentation.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Super Advent Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Super Advent Calendar” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Super Advent Calendar” into your language.
Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.19.1: Oct 12, 2025
- Fix: load just one canvas element, improves performance on large calendars
- Change: update dependencies
1.19.0: Sep 10, 2025
- Add: is-unlocked class to doors which may be opened
- Change: update dependencies
1.18.0: Aug 14, 2025
- Add: filters to be able to change « re-open this door/link » text on demand
- Change: « click to view … » to « re-open this … » text
- Fix: loading spinner not showing when checking/opening a door
1.17.0: Aug 8, 2025
- Change: update dependencies
1.16.1: Jul 16, 2025
- Change: update dependencies
1.16.0: May 24, 2025
- Add: loading spinner while retrieving contents
- Change: text « Opens in a modal » to « Click to view modal »
- Change: text « Opens a link » to « Click to view link »
- Change: keep the door open even when a modal is closed
- Change: use cached version of api results when clicking a door multiple times
- Change: update dependencies
1.15.1: May 14, 2025
- Fix: confetti effects not working
1.15.0: Apr 11, 2025
- Add: controls for inserting custom tooltip text
- Change: tooltips are now rendered on demand/click
- Change: access is now checked directly through an api call
- Change: update dependencies
1.14.0: Jan 27, 2025
- Change: update dependencies
1.13.4: Dec 9, 2024
- Fix: safari blocking target blank links from opening
Earlier versions
For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on verdant.studio.