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Description
Highly configurable photo contest gallery plugin for WordPress.
Create image upload frontend forms.
Create user registration frontend forms.
Create responsive galleries and allow to vote images.
Plugin limitations
- Since 2019: No uploads limitation anymore
- Since 2019: No registrations limitation anymore
- (No 100 uploads and 10 registrations limitation anymore)
- Some options available in PRO version only
- To have all options available please purchase PRO version for just 39$
Multiple photo contests example
Amazing photo contest for your WordPress page
Normal and registered users gallery
- Display gallery images of all users
- User see only his images which were uploaded by the user after registration and login
Four voting types
- IP recognition
- Cookie recognition
- Login session based (create account registration and login)
- Facebook like button
Drag & Drop image upload form creator
- Add field types and arrange them
- Add e-mail field and allow to send confirmation e-mail
- Available field types: (Input, Textarea, Select, Select Categories, Email, URL, Check agreement, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)
- Configure subscription e-mail
Drag & Drop user account registration form creator
- Add field types and arrange them
- Available field types: (WP-Nickname, WP-Email, WP-Password, WP-Password-Confirm, Input, Textarea, Select, Check agreement, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)
- Allows membership as “Contest Gallery User” WordPress role
Create login area
- Add login area to your website
- Allow voting only for registered users
Four e-mail types
- Admin information e-mail when new image is uploaded
- Activation e-mail to user when his image is activated
- Confirmation e-mail to a user who uploaded an image to confirm that his e-mail exists
- Registration confirmation e-mail when user create a new account
Available options
Upload options
- Automatically activate users images after front-end upload
- Allow only registered users to upload
- Restrict front end upload size
- Maximum upload size in MB
- Activate bulk upload in front end
- Maximum number of images for bulk upload
- Minimum number of images for bulk upload
- Restrict resolution uploaded images
- Activate in gallery upload form
- Forward to another page after upload
- Confirmation text after upload
- Inform admin e-mail after upload in frontend
Registration options
- Confirmation text after registration
- Confirmation text after e-mail confirmation
- Confirmation mail options (Addressor, Reply mail, Subject, Mail content)
Login options
- Forward to another page after login
- Forward to URL
- Confirmation text on same site after login
- Confirmation Text after login
Vote options
- Allow vote via 1 star rating
- Allow vote via 5 star rating
- Reset all votes
- Reset users votes
- Reset votes done by administrator
- Allow vote out of gallery
- Hide voting until user voted
- Configure votes amount per user
- Show only users votes (user see only his votes not the whole rating)
- Votes in time interval per user
- Delete votes (Frontend users can delete their votes and give them to another picture.)
- Vote via Facebook like button
Photo contest end options
- End photo contest immediately
- Activate photo contest end time
- Select last day and time of photo contest
Commenting options
- Allow comments
- Allow comment out of gallery
- Remove written comments
Gallery view options
- Show EXIF data
- Add categories widget when categories field in upload form is added
- Allow full window gallery
- Number of images per screen (pagination)
- Allow search for images (Search by fields content, categories or picture name)
- Allow sort
- Random sort
- Random sort button
- Switch between total different gallery views without site reloading
- Five different views
- Real justified Flickr look, customize height
- Thumb look, define size and margin between thumbs
- Same amount of pictures in a row look
- Slider look
- Blog look
Single image view options
- View images in a slider
- View preview in slider
- Link to original image source
- Show image on a single page
- Only gallery view
Supported languages in frontend
- English
- German
- Dutch
- Spain
- French
- Norwegian
- Swedish
- Russian
- Chinese
- Slovakian
Installation
- Install as usual way via your wordpress installer, uploading/installing/activating.
- Contest Gallery menu point appears on the left site.
- Create a new gallery.
- After creating you immediately see the two important shortcodes e.g.:
[cg_gallery id="1"]
and[cg_users_upload id="1"]
- You are immediately able to upload images and to create own photo contest user forms
- Insert the shortcode
[cg_gallery id="1"]
in a page. This shortcode shows the gallery in frontend. - Insert the shortcode
[cg_users_upload id="1"]
in a page. This shortcode shows the the photo contest form in frontend.
Documentation to configure different options: Click here..
Plugin author
Plugin official website address
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contest-gallery/
If you encounter problems in using the Contest Gallery – Photo Contest Plugin for WordPress plugin, you can comment below, and I will try my best to help you solve the problem