Description

WordPress Advent Calendar Plugin

Give your website a festive touch with Super Advent Calendar — a flexible, customizable advent calendar for holiday giveaways or seasonal countdowns. Choose from pre-built themes or build your own, configure each door’s content individually, and delight visitors with built-in animations and special effects.

Free Features

Door count: 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 display content inline
Styles: change typography, padding, colors and dimensions for each slot
Locked content: each door reveals on its scheduled date; past and future doors stay hidden

Premium Features

Images: personalize the calendar by adding your own images
Animations: 8 additional revealing animations
Special effects: confetti, falling snow, and more, triggered when a door is opened
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 ww.wp.xz.cn and contribute to translating the plugin for the global community.

Documentation

You can find the documentation on our site.

Screenshots

You can also show content in a modal — Create an Advent Calendar

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-calendar folder 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

Where can I find the documentation?: You can find the documentation at: verdant.studio/plugins/super-advent-calendar
Does this plugin work with Divi, Elementor, and other page builders?: Yes, while the Super Advent Calendar plugin is designed as a Gutenberg block, you can use it with page builders such as Divi, Elementor and WPBakery. For detailed instructions, check out our page builder documentation.

Reviews

silvercarpet October 20, 2025 1 reply

This is a brilliant Advent calendar which does everything I want. It’s easy to add or remove windows, and you can put photos, links, or text in them, making it very flexible. This is the first time I’ve ever paid to upgrade a plugin, and the features in the paid version, such as being able to have opened windows remain open as the days pass, are well worth having. It’s not just for Christmas either. There are themes for Easter, New Year, and you can set up your own custom themes for any time of year. This makes it brilliant for businesses who can promote their services while giving clients a fun reason to visit their website daily. I look forward to seeing this evolve over time, and to using it for many years to come 😃

donmacsi November 29, 2024

What I Liked: Easy Setup: Installing the plugin was a breeze. Within minutes, I had the advent calendar up and running on my site. Scheduled Content: Setting up different content for each day was straightforward. I scheduled images, special offers, and holiday greetings to reveal on specific dates. Responsive Design: The calendar looked great on both desktop and mobile devices, ensuring all my visitors had a seamless experience.

scottrutherford November 18, 2024

Awesome lightweight plugin with even better support.

glasswellsltd October 23, 2024

A handy plugin for creating an advent calendar, there aren’t many of these about! The support for this is superb and they respond quickly to any issues.

jokitheman October 23, 2024

Exactly what we were looking for. No errors or complications, easy to use. Many thanks for that!

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Contributors & Developers

“Super Advent Calendar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

“Super Advent Calendar” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Interested in development?

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Changelog

1.22.0: Jun 11, 2026

Change: remove custom autoloader, use default
Change: improve schedule start/end comparison
Change: improve code and script loading fallbacks
Change: update dependencies

1.21.1: May 6, 2026

Change: update dependencies
Fix: Tailwind (preflight) CSS unscoped on pages loading the calendar

1.21.0: Apr 7, 2026

Add: 22 additional festive background styles/patterns (making a total of 25)
Change: upgrade Tailwind from v3 to v4 and rewrite parts of the CSS
Change: improve the way scripts are loaded
Change: test with WordPress 7.0 and update support
Change: update dependencies
Fix: grid resizing on the editor view

1.20.2: Dec 1, 2025

Change: test with WordPress 6.9 and update support

1.20.1: Nov 26, 2025

Change: update dependencies
Fix: broken links in readme documentation
Fix: grid should now autofill on smaller screens
Fix: make superac-day selector more specific

1.20.0: Nov 16, 2025

Change: use custom DI container and remove dependency to external DI container
Change: update dependencies
Fix: prevent locked door with href from scrolling up the page
Fix: enforce no margin on superac day class on the editor

1.19.1: Oct 12, 2025

Change: update dependencies
Fix: load just one canvas element, improves performance on large calendars

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

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on verdant.studio.

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