About this plugin
Calendora Banners manages promotional banners on a schedule, so you do not have to edit the homepage before every occasion.
You set a campaign once: the content, the images, the buttons and the dates. The plugin decides what is on air. A Valentine’s Day banner can start fourteen days before the date and stop on the day itself.
When nothing seasonal is running, an evergreen campaign takes the slot instead.
Seasonal and evergreen campaigns never mix. A seasonal campaign always wins; evergreen ones are the fallback for the quiet days between them. When several seasonal campaigns overlap, they rotate in a slider.
The plugin makes no external requests. It sets no cookies, collects no statistics and sends nothing anywhere. The name-day calendar and the font are bundled with the plugin and read locally.
How it works
- Add a campaign and choose whether it recurs every year on a fixed date, or runs once between two dates.
- Set how many days before the event it should start, and how many days after it should stop.
- Add desktop and mobile images, up to two call-to-action buttons, and the text.
- Place the banner with the [caleba_banners] shortcode, or drop the Calendora Banners widget into an Elementor layout.
Features
- Recurring yearly campaigns with a lead time and a run-on period.
- One-off campaigns that run between two dates.
- Evergreen campaigns as an automatic fallback, in an order you control by drag and drop.
- A slider when several campaigns are active at the same time, with swipe support on touch devices.
- Separate desktop and mobile images, with a crop anchor for each.
- Up to two call-to-action buttons per campaign.
- A small formatting toolbar for the headline and description: bold, italic, underline and line breaks.
- Per-campaign typography: sizes, weights, colours and content alignment.
- A local 366-day Polish name-day calendar with per-day overrides and no external API.
- Name-day shortcodes you can use anywhere: [caleba_today_names], [caleba_tomorrow_names], [caleba_day_plus_2_names], [caleba_day_plus_3_names]. Each one also works as a curly token ( {today_names} and so on) in page content and in Elementor widgets, which helps with themes whose headings do not run shortcodes.
- A test mode that simulates another date, so you can check a schedule without changing the server clock. It applies only to the logged-in administrator who enabled it.
- Neutral, theme-independent slider navigation, with an optional setting to let your theme style it instead.
- White-label: your own name, logo and accent colour in the admin panel.
- Import campaigns from a JSON file, and download the bundled starter file as a starting point. The plugin does not export your existing campaigns.
- An admin panel built on a documented design-token system, with a self-hosted font and no external CDN.
Third-party software and data
- Geist Sans variable font, from the vercel/geist-font project, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The font is bundled and served from the plugin directory; no external font CDN is used.
- Polish name-day dataset, derived from the Poland list in the milan-fabian/name-day-list project, under the GNU GPL v3.0. The data is bundled locally so the plugin needs no external API.
txt inside the plugin directory.