- Hey y'all my name is Kori Ashton,
and welcome to another WordPress Wednesday.
Today is going to help you increase conversion
on your WordPress website by adding that sense of urgency
that countdown moment where your visitors or your readers,
or viewers whoever's coming in your website sees that clock
or that countdown timer happening
and it causes them to want to engage now, move quickly
and understand that time is being wasted
the longer they take.
I'm gonna show you how to do it right now
all on the budget of free.
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So you actually have several different looks
you can accomplish with a couple of different plugins.
You have a lot of different options
when it comes to free countdown timers
for plugins, for WordPress.
You can see these three different options that I lists here.
All of them have really great reviews,
they've been updated recently,
and they have a lot of installs, a lot of active installs,
but the sake of this particular plugin this example
that I wanna build out for you right now
I want to use this particular one called Countdown Timer.
I think the look of it is kind of more along aligns
what the client is looking for.
They want it to look a little bit clean
and really simple on the page not very complex,
so they like the idea of maybe having
this circle countdown happen,
so we can do that right now inside of
your WordPress Dashboard by going
into plugins and clicking add new.
So the one you're looking for is this one right here
with a nice green circle right here.
It has really great installs, really great reviews,
it's compatible with my version of WordPress,
and it's been updated recently.
Remember that if you're viewing this video later on
down the road you always wanna confirm those details
to be certain that it's still legitimate safe plugin to use.
You'll click Install now.
Once that's done, you'll click Activate.
Best practices is always to be certain
that you have a backup in place as well
before you start tinkering with all this,
so be certain that you do.
So this is just a really quick little advertisement
you can click skip for that or read through it if you'd like
I'm gonna move on for the sake of this tutorial
into the actual countdown timer itself,
and show you how it works.
Which if you'd like to you can click on how it works,
and of course it's gonna matter
what area you want this to render in,
where you want this to show up.
You'll be putting in your shortcodes into
whatever page or whatever post, right?
So let's go ahead and make our very first timer.
All you do is say Add Timer.
We're gonna come here to the top and give it a title,
and we'll say workshop countdown,
and my first workshop is on May 8th
we want that to be visible and you can change the time.
Note that this all runs off of your time zone
that you have selected on your WordPress website
inside your general settings area,
so this is playing it.
The clock will basically start counting
in accordance to your selected timezone,
so be sure that's set correctly,
and then you can come in here and tinker
around with all the different styling,
and maybe this is gonna be a trial and error.
You're gonna go back and forth back and forth between it,
but for now what I want you to do is come in here
and go ahead to get the look that
I really want for my example.
I'm just gonna set the background color to white
because I want to be nice and clean on the page,
and then I'm gonna leave these colors for now
and I can certainly choose something else later,
but I'm gonna go ahead and click Publish.
Once that's published you'll come over here
to the countdown timer click on that area
and you'll see I've already been tinkering with one.
Here's the one that we just built workshop countdown.
I'm gonna grab this shortcode right here
and copy that onto my clipboard.
That's the one I wanna use to go into my page
or into my post and this is the page again
that I want it to display on.
I want it to be right up above my two columns here,
so I'm gonna click edit page,
and I've got that shortcode on my clipboard,
so I'm gonna go in here to the visual
or text mode it doesn't matter.
If you're using Guttenberg you can use this as well
it's all going to work and paste it in there.
There's my shortcode paste it in
at the top where I wanted to display
and let's go ahead and preview
the changes and see how it looks.
There it is right there five days, 20 hours, 11 minutes
and 58 seconds there's my countdown it's happening right now
and you can give it a title
and say hurry hurry the next workshop starts in.
You know, you can do whatever you'd like
to make that sense of urgency happen.
Change the colors again to match your layout, your style.
Kinda cool, right?
It's a really great way to add that extra sense of urgency
to get people to do something on your WordPress website.
I hope this helps you.
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Bye everyone.
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(bell rings)
Really cool solution though for adding
that sense of urgency to anybody visiting your website
you always want them to know that they need to act now
and do something right now.
Hey I hope you're having a great week.
Hey I hope you're having a great week
and I'm gonna ask you to act right now
by clicking submit not submit.
kinda cool, right?
It's a really cool tool to add that sense of urgency
and get people to motivate.
Pretty cool, right?
It's a great way to have your visitors your.
(audience laughs)
Not awake yet.