ViDesigner Christmas Calendar gives you a simple Christmas advent calendar with 24 or 25 independently placed doors. Choose from three ready-made holiday backgrounds or upload your own portrait or landscape picture. Each day reveals a text greeting, an image, a YouTube video, or a festive link button. The site owner can position doors by dragging them in the editor. Each door opens on or after its December date, using the WordPress site’s configured timezone.

Works with any standard WordPress theme or page builder. No specific site domain, license service or account is required to use the free plugin. The plugin interface is bilingual: English by default, with bundled Danish translations following WordPress locale settings. Calendar content written by the user is not automatically translated.

Shortcode: [videsigner_christmas_calendar id=”123″] (replace 123 with your actual calendar ID). The earlier Danish shortcode [videsigner_julekalender id=”123″] is supported too.

The optional ViDesigner Christmas Calendar PRO add-on can be installed separately. This free plugin includes the parent connection needed by PRO. All free calendar features remain available without a purchase, license key or Freemius account.

External services

Freemius: This plugin bundles the Freemius WordPress SDK for an optional account connection and integration with the separately installed PRO add-on. You can skip the connection and use every free calendar feature without an account. The opt-in screen explains the permissions before you choose to connect. When you opt in, account and site information (such as your name, email address, site URL, plugin version and WordPress/PHP environment) is sent to Freemius to register the installation and provide the selected services. Optional usage sharing follows your consent settings. PRO activation and licensing also use Freemius when you choose to install and activate PRO. The SDK may contact its service to check connectivity; this does not require you to opt into usage tracking.
Service: https://freemius.com/
Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/
Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

YouTube: If you choose YouTube content for a calendar door, WordPress uses its oEmbed support to retrieve the video embed. Opening that door loads the YouTube player, which connects to YouTube/Google and receives the visitor’s IP address and browser information. No YouTube content is needed for text, image or link doors.
Terms: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Credits and licenses

The three included background images (assets/backgrounds/vd001.jpg, vd002.jpg and vd003.jpg) were generated using Grok Imagine (xAI) and contributed by ViDesigner. Created with Grok. The contributor has authorized these bundled images to be distributed, copied, modified and redistributed under GPL-2.0-or-later, to the extent applicable rights are held by the contributor. The source and permission statement are in assets/backgrounds/IMAGE-LICENSE.txt.

The bundled QR-code implementation is licensed GPL-2.0-or-later; see assets/js/vendor/LICENSE-QR.txt. No external QR-code service is used.

The bundled Freemius WordPress SDK 2.13.4 is GPL-3.0 licensed. Source: https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk/tree/2.13.4 ; license: vendor/freemius/LICENSE.txt.