No styling

Interestingly, when I log out again, it still doesn’t work.

Clearing cookies and cache makes no difference. WEIRD!!!!

Ok – I have narrowed this down a little.

The js for this plugin needs the jquery global variable to be set – but it is not set when the code is called.

Instead jQuery111107941654497963643 is set.

So it looks to be some sort of jquery issue, but I have not tracked it down any further than this.

One point I would make is that it seems odd that the js inserts the HTML to load the CSS for the skin.

I would have thought that the php could enqueue the css with wordpress and that this would result in better loading performance for the widget.

(This is nothing to do with the cause of this jquery issue – which very much seems to be somewhere other than the countdown timer. Just an observation about performance.)

Finally sorted (I hope).

I had not excluded this from a widget caching plugin – D’oh!!

That would certainly cause incorrect starting values, but not sure why it should stop the js from running.

It could possibly be a timing issue – jQuery global variable gets cleared and then set again and the Countdown js runs at a different time when it is cached.

But it is working in Firefox and Chrome, logged in and logged out – so it looks sorted for the moment.

issue resolved