Super Advent Calendar

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.

Want your own images, more animations and confetti or snowfall when a door opens? Have a look at Premium.

Perfect for

• Shops sharing a daily discount code or giveaway in December
• Growing your newsletter by putting a sign-up form behind a door
• Schools, churches and communities counting down to Christmas
• Easter, New Year or any other countdown to an event

Free Features

• Door count: control how many doors your calendar has
• Layout: customize with grid columns and rows
• Animations: reveal doors with a flip or an open door animation
• Themes: choose a festive default theme or design your own
• Schedule: control when doors can be opened, preview on a specific date, schedule all at once or per door, shift all dates for next year
• 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

Make the calendar truly yours and give visitors a reason to come back every day.

• Images: put your own photos, illustrations or product shots on the doors
• Animations: 8 additional revealing animations, such as slide in, slide up/down, rotate into view and fade and skew
• Special effects: confetti (classic, Christmas, Easter or New Year) or snowfall, triggered when a door is opened
• Save state: doors visitors opened stay open on their next visit, so the calendar fills up day by day
• 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.

1. Upload super-advent-calendar folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to any post or page and search for the ‘Advent Calendar’ block.

1. 

   Create an Advent Calendar

2. 

   You can also show content in a modal

3. 

   Choose an animation, schedule all doors at once and preview the calendar on a specific date

4. 

   Select a default style or create your own

5. 

   Add and schedule content to unlock at a certain date/time

6. 

   Change colors, typography and dimensions per door

7. 

   Super Advent Calendar Premium lets you add images to personalize the calendar

8. 

   Super Advent Calendar Premium also lets you choose from special effects

9. 

   Use shortcodes in door content to embed forms and other dynamic elements

1.24.0: Oct 24, 2026

• Add: add an open door revealing animation
• Change: remove the arrow from the locked door tooltip
• Fix: quote the data attributes of a door so values containing spaces don’t break the json

1.23.0: Oct 20, 2026

• Add: schedule all doors at once and shift all dates by a number of days, e.g. to reuse a calendar next year
• Add: preview the calendar on a specific date (only for users who can edit the calendar)
• Add: superac_shortcode_content and superac_can_view_calendar_post filters
• Add: editor side feedback on specific changes made
• Fix: doors continue to work on pages served from a full page cache
• Fix: superac shortcode can only request door content of public and published posts
• Fix: a calendar embedding itself through the shortcode crashed the page
• Fix: multiple calendars embedded through the shortcode on one page use the correct doors

1.22.1: Oct 8, 2026

• Change: update dependencies
• Fix: script error instead of fallback text when a card has no content
• Fix: “Invalid URL” message for link cards could not be translated

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

Earlier versions

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