
Add customizable digital clocks to WordPress. Show your office’s local time, another city’s time or UTC with captions, dates and colors.
📌 Description
Show your office’s local time, the time in another city or UTC on your WordPress site. Simple Digital Clock provides a Gutenberg block for posts, pages and block-based widget areas. Choose a time zone, add a caption and adjust colors, fonts and display options directly in the editor. Add multiple clocks to show the time in different locations, with independent settings for each block.
Live demo👀 | CodePen playground👀
⭐️ FEATURES ⭐️
- 🚀 Lightweight (~11.2 KiB gzip)
- 🗣 Locale support (BCP-47, e.g.,
en-US,uk,de-DE) - 🌐 IANA time zones (e.g.,
Europe/Kyiv,UTC) - 📝 Custom caption
- 🎨 Styling: color/gradient, radius, shadows
- 🔢 24-hour or AM/PM, ⏱ seconds, ⏱️ optional hundredths of a second, 📅 date
- 🔒 SSL-friendly, 📱 responsive
- 💯 Free, no ads
How it works
- Add the Simple Digital Clock block in the editor or as a widget.
- Configure in the right sidebar:
- Locale (e.g.,
en-US,uk,fr-FR) - Time Zone (IANA ID, e.g.,
Europe/Kyiv,America/New_York,UTC) - Seconds, Hundredths, Date, 24-Hour (AM/PM), Caption
- Background/gradient, border radius, shadow, and font
- Locale (e.g.,
Hundredths shows two fractional digits after the seconds for clocks that need finer visual precision. Hundredths automatically include seconds while enabled. Note: the browser may not render every 10 ms increment.
📌 Installation
= From your WordPress dashboard =
1. Go to Plugins Add New
2. Search for “Simple Digital Clock”
3. Install & Activate
4. Insert the block in the editor or add it as a widget (/wp-admin/widgets.php)
From WordPress.org
- Download “Simple Digital Clock”
- Upload to /wp-content/plugins/
- Activate
- Insert the block / add the widget
Source / Development
The production JavaScript bundled with this plugin is built from the public Simple Digital Clock Widget source.
- Source repository: https://github.com/Timenow-zone/Simple-Digital-Clock-Widget
- Bundled upstream version: 0.7.0
- Exact source for this bundled release: https://github.com/Timenow-zone/Simple-Digital-Clock-Widget/tree/v0.7.0
To reproduce the production bundle:
npm cinpm run build
🍩 Donations
🕒 Sync Time: UTC
🗓️ Today’s Date: TodaysDateNow
Screenshots

screenshot-1.png – Front-end examples: multiple Simple Digital Clock blocks on one page, each with different locales, time zones, colors, and formats (AM/PM or 24-hour).

screenshot-2.png – Editor view: Gutenberg sidebar settings for the block (Container, Background Color, Options, Display, About, Advanced) to tweak size, radius, shadow, font, locale, time zone, seconds, date, etc.

screenshot-3.png – Block inserter: searching “Clock” and selecting the Simple Digital Clock block to add it to the page.

screenshot-4.png – Live preset gallery showing Local Time, London, New York, Tokyo, Kyiv, and the Hundredths preset.

screenshot-5.png – Live preview of a customized London clock with caption, seconds, date, color, radius, and shadow.