Description
Piba Glass Countdown replaces your site’s front end with a polished, frosted-glass countdown page while you build or update your site — without touching a single line of template code.
Features
- One-click enable/disable — logged-in administrators always see the real site.
- Upload a logo and a background image straight from the Media Library.
- Adjustable color overlay (mask) on top of the background image, with opacity control.
- Elegant two-color gradient fallback for when no background image is set.
- Fully editable title, subtitle and footer text.
- Live countdown to any target date and time, in a frosted-glass (« glassmorphism ») card.
- Customizable message shown once the countdown ends — the maintenance page never launches your site automatically, you stay in control.
- Optional social media icon row (Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, Pinterest) — icons are drawn inline, nothing is loaded from an external service.
- Optional « Notify Me » email signup form, stored in your own database — no third-party mailing service required. Includes spam protection (honeypot + rate limiting) and a CSV export from the admin area.
- Zero external requests: no CDN-hosted jQuery, no Google Fonts — everything needed is bundled with the plugin.
- Sends a proper
503 Service Unavailableheader while active, which is the SEO-correct way to signal a temporary maintenance page to search engines. - Translation ready.
Captures d’écrans
Installation
- Upload the
piba-glass-countdownfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install the plugin directly from the WordPress Plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the « Plugins » screen in WordPress.
- Go to Glass Countdown in your admin menu to configure the logo, background, colors, countdown date, and footer text.
- Toggle Enable on and save — your site will now show the countdown page to visitors while you remain able to browse the real site while logged in.
FAQ
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Will I lose access to my own site while it’s enabled?
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No. Any user logged in with the
manage_optionscapability (administrators) will always see the normal site. Only logged-out visitors and non-admin users see the countdown page. -
What happens when the countdown reaches zero?
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The countdown simply stops at
00:00:00:00. The maintenance page keeps showing until you turn Enable off from the settings page — Piba Glass Countdown does not automatically disable itself, so you control exactly when the real site goes live. -
Does this affect SEO?
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While enabled, the plugin sends a
503 Service UnavailableHTTP status, which tells search engines the downtime is temporary and they should check back later, instead of removing the page from their index. -
Where are the « Notify Me » email addresses stored?
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In a table in your own WordPress database (
{prefix}glco_subscribers) — nowhere else. Nothing is sent to a third-party mailing list service. You can view and export the list as CSV from Glass Countdown Subscribers. -
Will uninstalling the plugin delete my subscriber list?
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No, not by default. Only the plugin’s own settings are removed. If you’d like the subscriber list deleted too, turn on « Delete Collected Data on Uninstall » in the Danger Zone section of the settings page first.
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Journal des modifications
1.0.0
- Initial public release.