Best timer plugins for WordPress
The most popular timer plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Uji Countdown (4K+) and WPC Product Timer for WooCommerce (2K+). All 76 plugins tagged “timer” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 timer plugins
- 1.
Countdown, Coming Soon, MaintenanceThe most installed timer plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 183 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Uji Countdown4K+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 54 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.
WPC Product Timer for WooCommerce2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 24 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.Countdown Timer Block
2K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Simple Countdown Timer1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Counter Box1K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 8 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
WPC Countdown Timer for WooCommerce1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 8.
Checkout Countdown for WooCommerce1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 9.Countdown Timer
900+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 10 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 10.
EZ Countdown Timer300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 76 plugins tagged “timer”

Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,117by adamskaat9 months ago
Countdown builder - Customizable Countdown Timer
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(183)
- Downloads
- 60/day

Uji Countdown
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,569by WPmanage5 months ago
A customizable countdown timer for events, launches, sales, evergreen campaigns, and landing pages.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 3.2(54)
- Downloads
- 24/day

WPC Product Timer for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,191by WPClever24 days ago
WPC Product Timer helps you add many actions for the product based on the conditionals of the time.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(24)
- Downloads
- 60/day
Countdown Timer Block
Up in the last 7 days:5#4,655by bPlugins2 months ago
Countdown timer block for Gutenberg – count down to events, sales, and launches with customizable layouts, colors, separators, and patterns.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 36/day

Simple Countdown Timer
Up in the last 7 days:17#5,267by GrandPlugins2 months ago
Add a countdown to any page or post for a sale, launch or event. Build one in a click, or customise every part of it.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Counter Box
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,382by Wow-Company2 months ago
Easily add countdowns, timers, and counters to your WordPress site. Ideal for sales, events, stats, and personalized time-based experiences.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(8)
- Downloads
- 22/day

WPC Countdown Timer for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:62#6,340by WPClever18 days ago
WPC Countdown Timer helps you display countdown timer in single product pages and shop page.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Checkout Countdown for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:1#6,918by Morgan Hvidt1 year ago
The Countdown Bar for WooCommerce Products to improve your Cart & Checkout Flow
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Countdown Timer
Down in the last 7 days:9#7,251by fergbrain7 years ago
This plugin allows you to setup a series of dates to count to or from in terms of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and/or seconds.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 16/day

EZ Countdown Timer
Up in the last 7 days:75#10,643by Blend Media7 months ago
A customizable countdown timer plugin for WordPress that allows you to create multiple timers with custom styling and live preview.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Milestone
Up in the last 7 days:25#10,669by fergbrain14 years ago
Milestone clone for self hosted WordPress installations. Counts down to a big event and then displays a message!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Smart Countdown FX Easy Recurring Events
Up in the last 7 days:67#11,767by Alex Polonski6 years ago
Smart Countdown FX Easy Recurring Events adds recurring events support to Smart Countdown FX.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Delay Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:2#12,566by Vasilis Triantafyllou9 years ago
Delay Redirect
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

GW Count Down
Up in the last 7 days:10#13,340by Green Website1 year ago
Display a live countdown timer anywhere on your site using a simple shortcode.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Stopwatch
Up in the last 7 days:48#15,212by ravi Singh4 years ago
Simple Stopwatch with start, pause and reset button. Use shortcode [simplestopwatch]
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CountDown FlipClock
#18,657by BlueLevel8 years ago
Welcome to the page of the next-gen 3D countdown timer - CountDown FlipClock, created and maintained by BlueLevel Communications.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.5(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CB Countdown Timer Widget for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:86#18,675by Md Abul Bashar5 days ago
A customizable Elementor countdown widget to highlight upcoming events, sales, launches, and limited-time offers.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Deadlines
Up in the last 7 days:17#21,379by ThemesGrove9 years ago
Finally, A countdown timer to increase your sales and email conversions by creating a urgency to your buyer.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

The Countdown Timer
Up in the last 7 days:65#23,204by Konstantin Pankratov1 year ago
The only countdown timer you'll ever need!
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

deal or announcement with countdown timer
#23,347by gopiplus3 years ago
This plugin will display your announcement with countdown timer.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Rotating Hero Image
#23,944by wsxplugindev1 month ago
Automatically rotate multiple hero banner images on a schedule — no slideshow bloat, just fast, clean image rotation.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple countdown timer
Down in the last 7 days:142#24,193by NYC HelpDesk LLC10 years ago
Countdown Widget
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Event Countdown
#24,293by Ridoy Islam6 years ago
A simple and nice plugin to add countdown timer anywhere at your wordpress website. You can use it on your product sales promotion page for offer coun …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Countdown Flip Timer for WP
Down in the last 7 days:149#24,838by pavlobondarchuk6 years ago
Simple Countdown Flip Timer for WP
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Timed Textwidget
Down in the last 7 days:54#25,808by LuigivdB11 years ago
Easily display a textwidget on a set time and/or day.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Timer
Down in the last 7 days:93#27,738by nitinmaurya1213 years ago
This is Timer Plugin. So you can set any date as countdown. It shows days left.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Arreluna
#28,462by Arreluna5 months ago
Create evergreen and fixed-date countdowns that switch content visibility or redirect visitors when they expire.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TIP Countdown Generator
Down in the last 7 days:123#31,290by alexvtn2 months ago
Create evergreen and fixed-date countdown timers for offers, webinars, launches, and promotional campaigns with clear deadlines.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Download Timer Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:395#31,441by Santosh Bist2 years ago
Easily add customizable download buttons with timers to your WordPress posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ChronoPress Countdown Block
#31,970by dhrashtidev9 months ago
A powerful Gutenberg block for creating beautiful countdown timers with multiple styles and customizable display units.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Countdown Timer Infinite
#32,502by Farid Mia3 years ago
A simple plugin that allows you to add a countdown timer to your website. In only a few minutes, you can design a beautiful and practical Countdown ti …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day

Calendareto Valentine’s Day Countdown
Down in the last 7 days:91#34,726by Calendareto6 days ago
A lightweight and clean countdown timer to Valentine’s Day. Add the shortcode [calendareto valentine countdown] anywhere to display the timer.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Countdown Timer
Up in the last 7 days:9,739#35,445by zaus14 years ago
Simple countdown timer shortcode. Specify date/time, will show YMD... until target.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dunstan-style Error Page
#37,587by fergbrain19 years ago
See http://www.andrewferguson.net/wordpress-plugins/dunstan-style-error-page/ for the latest updates.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NS Countdown
Up in the last 7 days:5,415#39,069by innovaxp15 years ago
This plugin displays a countdown on a post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

OtFm Countdown to New Year block
Up in the last 7 days:5,901#39,236by Vova Druzhaev6 years ago
The plugin adds in the block editor countdown to New Year. Showing days, hours, minutes and seconds until New Year day.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin's Debug Tool
#41,101by pantsonhead11 years ago
Admin-only tool for checking execution times and error output of current theme/plugins
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WPF Product Countdown Timer
Up in the last 7 days:2,686#41,598by WPFound2 years ago
WPF Product Countdown Timer plugin helps you display for single product page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Captain Countdown Clock
Up in the last 7 days:934#41,655by Tony DeStefano10 years ago
A simple and customizable WordPress countdown clock. Includes settings to sync your website's time to your time zone.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
TomatoPress
Down in the last 7 days:5,316#43,740by Tizionario14 years ago
Do you like time-management techniques like "The Pomodoro Technique"? You'll love this plugin!!!!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Before You Are Dead Countdown
#43,826by anou12 years ago
The Before You Are Dead (BYAD) Countdown provides a simple widget witch displays a countdown timer with Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds and optionally, …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recurring Timer Widget
#46,585by jrfoell9 years ago
Widget to display a countdown timer for a recurring event.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Display Time(zone)
Down in the last 7 days:4,545#47,388by Midhun Devasia10 years ago
Display Timezone is simple plug-in to display current time with timezone in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Smart DL Redirect
#47,733by Dibyandu Pal10 months ago
Add a countdown page before file downloads with timer, ads, and fallback link using a simple shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Episode VII Countdown Widget
#48,540by Tomas12 years ago
The Episode VII Countdown Widget is a simple countdown to Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day

Content Reveal Countdown
Up in the last 7 days:8,562#52,831by mahethekiller1 year ago
Schedule content visibility with beautiful countdown timers. Hide content until specific dates to build anticipation and increase engagement.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Basketball Scorebook
#53,402by ofbita2 months ago
A digital basketball scorebook with timestamps, running scores, and PDF export. Perfect for coaches and table officials.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Brexit Clock
#53,488by Tyrone Williams7 years ago
This plugin is a great replacement for the Dolly plugin,
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

VICSO Sale Countdown Timer for WooCommerce
#54,781by Viktor5 years ago
A simple but very useful tool for increasing online sales. A countdown timer for WooCommerce product pages with promotional price.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Countdown Timer Elementor Widget
#55,272by Galaxy Weblinks1 year ago
Easy Countdown Timer Elementor Widget is a custom widget that allows you to display a countdown timer on your Elementor-powered website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day