Title: Jellyfish Counter Widget Author: Strawberry Jellyfish Published: ❄️1️⃣ 13, 2013 Last modified: 🌸4️⃣ 2, 2020 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/jellyfish-counter-widget/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=1009888) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/jellyfish-counter-widget/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1009888) # Jellyfish Counter Widget By [Strawberry Jellyfish](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toxictoad/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget.zip) * [Details](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget/#description) * [Reviews](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget/#reviews) * [Installation](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget/#installation) * [Development](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/) ## Description The Jellyfish Counter plugin provides a widget and shortcode enabling you to easily add animated counters to your WordPress site. Counters can be used as a manually updated total, an automatic counter that updates over time or just as an animated visual effect. Each counter can count upwards or downwards making them suitable for both incrementing totals or countdown situations. A great visual effect for travel blogs or any website that wants to display a running total or countdown of anything. Jellyfish Counters are highly configurable through the widget interface, and being generated using CSS and JavaScript, they require no external graphics files. You may have as many counters as you wish on a page, all can have individual settings for totals and appearance. Shortcode support allows you to generate a counter directly within any post or page content making counters no longer limited to your sidebar or other widgetable area. Advanced users will find that Jellyfish Counter objects are fully accessible via JavaScript and may be controlled and reconfigured as desired though your own custom scripting. #### Demo Check out the plugin homepage for demos and further information: http://strawberryjellyfish. com/wordpress-plugins/jellyfish-counter/ ### Usage #### Widget Simply drag a counter widget to your sidebar and adjust the settings to suit your needs. There are three basic modes of operation: * Static – If you want the counter to simply display a non animated number just set a Start Value to the desired number for the counter and set the Counter Type to ‘static’ * Animated – If you supply both start value and end value in the widget, the counter will increment upwards or downwards depending on the chosen Counter Type until it reaches the end value. Speed of the count is controlled by the Animation Speed option. Note, this counter has no memory, it will reset when a page is reloaded or changed but it is great for a visual effect where start and end values are relatively close together. * Continuous – If you want to count over a long period of time and need your counter to continue to count irrespective of page loads then just select the continuous option in the widget. Then choose the interval between the counter increments, in seconds. As soon as you save the widget the counter will “start” and will continue to tick away even if nobody is viewing your blog. Changing the setting on an active continuous counter will not effect the count value and it will keep count, if you wish to reset an active continuous counter just change the start value and save the widget and the counter will restart from the new starting value. Note: In continuous mode, animation speed and display tenths have no effect. The counters are very configurable through the widget panel. You can define the digit height, width and font as well as animation speed (animated mode only) and“ bustedness” (odometer style misalignment of the digits). You can further customise the appearance of an individual counter via the “Digit Style” input that will accept a valid CSS style attributes such as font-family, colour, background etc. Note: the size of the font here as is automatically calculated from the height, width and padding settings. Need a flat looking counter? “Disable 3D effect” removes the CSS shading effect. If you want to display a prefix on the counter or include separating characters, use the Format input. Just enter a string here representing your desired counter appearance, a 0 represents a counter digit, any other character will be displayed as it is. The Format option overrides the number of digits option, if a format string exists then the counter will use the total number of 0 characters as the number of digits. Example Formats: $0.00 1,000,000 0000 km #### Shortcode You can generate a counter directly within page or post content using the [jellyfish_counter] shortcode. The shortcode accepts a full range of parameters to provide identical functionality to the widget version. The following parameters may be used within a shortcode: * digits : a number, Number of digits in the counter * format : a string, representing any fancy display format * tenths : true/false, display tenths digit or not * digit_height : number, pixel height of digits * digit_width : number, pixel width of digits * digit_padding : number, pixel padding for digits * digit_style : a string, custom css styles for the digits * alignment : ‘left’, ‘center’, ‘right’, ‘inline’ overall counter alignment * bustedness : a number, misalignment of digits * flat : true/false, don’t show 3d effect, show 3d effect * speed : a number, 0 – 100, animation speed * start : a number, starting value for the counter * end : a number, ending value for the counter * direction : a, string ‘up’ or ‘down’ * interval : The number of seconds between updates of a continuous counter * tick_multiplier : the number of units the counter will increment every interval( defaults to 1) * timestamp : false or a string representing the starting time for the counter If you don’t specify a parameter it’s default value will be used. Examples: [jellyfish_counter end=100] The above shortcode translates as: Display a counter that animates upwards from 0 to 100 [jellyfish_counter start=999 end=0 direction=”down” digit_style=”background: transparent; color: red;” flat=true; timestamp=”2014-09-28 9:20:21″ interval=300 ] The above shortcode translates as: Display a counter that starts at 999 and ends at 0, counting downwards. It has red digits on a transparent background with no 3D shading effect. It is a persistent counter that started counting at 9:20:21 on 2014-09-28 and has been decrementing by one every 300 seconds (5 minutes) since then. #### Styling You can modify the appearance of an individual counters text through the widget control panel or through shortcode parameters. This should be sufficient for most uses. However, if you need to globally override the default counter style or make other CSS changes to the counter digits or container, take a look at jellyfish-counter. css for the appropriate class names. You should override this in you theme rather than modifying this css file as any changes made would be lost when the plugin upgrades.. ## Installation Either install and activate the plugin via your WordPress Admin Or Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page. After activation you’ll find a new Counter widget in the widgets panel of your WordPress admin, drag as many counter widgets as you need to your sidebar and other widgetable areas. Each counter widget has it’s own settings. You can also use the [jellyfish_counter] shortcode with page or post content to display a counter within your page or post. Shortcode counters can be configured just as much as their widget counterparts. See Usage for details. ## FAQ How can I make the counter adapt on responsive layouts? The current version of the counter does not scale easily, try to make your counter small enough to fit your smallest view. The all new future version 2.0 will be more responsive design friendly. Can I use the counter to track visitors to my website? No, it’s not that kind of a counter. Can I use the counter to show my post count/comment count/user count? Not yet, possibly down the track in version 2.0+ . I’ve a really cool idea for a feature, can you include it? I’m always interested in suggestions, send them on through! ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/eaee448c4cdc44cc338954f8258995c89c84a6fbb17136f64fab347c02109689? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great and much needed custom counter!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-and-much-needed-custom-counter/)󠁿 [offpeakdesign](https://profiles.wordpress.org/offpeakdesign/) ❄️1️⃣ 12, 2018 The plugin hasn't been updated in two years, but haven't experienced any issues and it looks like the developer is actively responding to forum. Works really well and is very useful if creating a counter with unique variables! Haven't found any other plugin that does this yet. Hope the developer will continue to support this again. Many thanks for its creation. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/55d63ee881e8a8bc04473977c9be8a6bd475c775d3804a274678c4cfc1b58bd9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Leider kein Support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/leider-kein-support/)󠁿 [Mc.Dudel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcdudel/) 🍂 9️⃣ 3, 2016 1 reply Counter zählt nicht richtig, muss immer nachgestellt werden. Leider keine Redaktion vom Support, aber Spenden wollen sie haben für dieses schlechte Programm. Nicht zu empfehlen. [ Read all 10 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Jellyfish Counter Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Strawberry Jellyfish ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toxictoad/) [Translate “Jellyfish Counter Widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/jellyfish-counter-widget/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/jellyfish-counter-widget/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/jellyfish-counter-widget/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/jellyfish-counter-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.4.4 * Ooops: one of the obsolete things removed in previous version wasn’t as obsolete I imagined. #### 1.4.3 * Updated WordPress tested version to 4.2.3 * Cleanup: removed obsolete js and css files. * Minor Bugfix: fixed initialisation of current value. * New Feature: tick_multiplier parameter added to shortcode, see shortcode usage for details. #### 1.4.2 * Updated WordPress tested version to 4.1 * Minor bugfix: End value is no longer limited to an integer or required. #### 1.4.1 * Minor bugfix: Persistent Interval is no longer limited to an integer * Minor bugfix: Counter added via the theme customiser now display when added without saving their settings first. #### 1.4 * New Counter alignment option for widgets and shortcodes, easily align a counter to left, center or right without touching style sheets. Additionally a shortcode counter can be rendered inline within a line of content. #### 1.3 * Shortcodes! You can now show counters directly in the post or page content using the [jellyfish_counter] shortcode. * The Odometer class has been extended further and renamed JellyfishOdometer. * General code cleanups and function / variable renaming * Added completedFunction attribute to jellyfish-odometer.js to allow defining a callback function that will be triggered when the counter completes * Continuous counter timestamps use your blogs local time instead of UTC * Updated Readme #### 1.2 * Another major re-factoring of JavaScript. All counter functions are now part of the odometer class which now takes it’s configuration from data attributes on the counter container element. No more inline JavaScript! * Much of the inline CSS has now been abstracted to a base stylesheet making it easier to restyle counters. Individual counter can still be styled through their widgets. #### 1.1 * No longer use widget_content filter instead of the_content filter on widget before/after text * Major reworking of odometer class to incorporate new features * Added format option to allow formatting the counter display to include non counting characters such as prefixes or separators #### 1.0 * Continuous counters no longer reset when their widget is saved unless the start value is changed. * Added ability to define text to be displayed before and after the counter. * Added a “disable 3D effect” setting to blend with flat design themes. * Added a more logical “Count Up | Static | Countdown” Counter Type setting. * General improvements to the widget settings interface. * The plugin is now localized and translation ready – let me know if you’d like to translate the plugin into your language. #### 0.9 * Added countdown feature. * Fixed bug where end value could not be 0 #### 0.8 * by request, added a non resetting continuous counter feature that can increment every set number of seconds until it reaches its goal #### 0.6 * initial release ## Meta * Version **1.4.4** * Last updated **7 years ago** * Active installations **1,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.4.24** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget/) * Tags * [animated](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/animated/)[Counter](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/counter/) [odometer](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/odometer/)[widget](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/) * [Advanced View](https://emoji.wordpress.org/plugins/jellyfish-counter-widget/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.4 out of 5 stars. * [ 7 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 2 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 1 1-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jellyfish-counter-widget/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Strawberry Jellyfish ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toxictoad/) ## Support Got something to say? 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