Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe for WordPress Plugin Directory

Create voting and upload galleries for photos, video, audio and files. Gallery monetization, social sharing and user registration.

All-in-One Photo Contest, Media Voting & File Gallery Photo contest and media voting plugin supporting: JPG, PNG, GIF, ZIP, WEBM, MP4, MOV, TXT, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV, MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A. Contest Gallery PRO additionally supports PDF uploads with generated previews.

Create galleries (material, modern, responsive) and allow users to vote and comment on files, photos, or embed social posts from YouTube, TikTok, X (Twitter) and more.

Live WordPress photo contest See a responsive photo contest gallery with categories, voting and entry details in 10 seconds.

Watch all Contest Gallery 10-second feature demos

Popular WordPress gallery use cases

Photo Contests: Collect frontend submissions, organize categories, protect voting and choose winners. View the live photo contest example

SEO-Friendly Galleries: Publish descriptive entry pages with unique URLs, controlled indexing and structured media data. View the SEO-friendly gallery example

Video Contests: Accept video entries and combine focused playback with ratings and comments. View the video contest example

Product Review Galleries: Combine five-star average ratings with written feedback in a searchable gallery. View the product review example

Real Watermark Protection Protect your image entries with real watermarks that are written into the public image files. Contest Gallery keeps the original files safely protected from direct public access, so you can present, share and sell your images with more confidence.

Key Features

Flexible Uploads: Create custom upload forms and add additional files to every entry.

Real Watermark Protection: Show watermarked public images while keeping the original files safely protected.

User Management: Includes user registration, login forms, and a “Google Sign-In button” for easy access.

Monetization: Sell entries or digital content directly via PayPal or Stripe API.

Social Reach: Built-in Social Media Share Buttons to boost your contest’s visibility.

No 100-entry limit: The former 100-entry limit was removed in 2019. Contest Gallery does not impose a limit on the number of gallery entries. Hosting storage and server resources still apply.

Paid uploads, votes and comments (PRO)

Contest Gallery PRO can sell upload, voting and comment credits directly from regular galleries.

Visitors can sign in with Google or a one-time email PIN and purchase credits through PayPal or Stripe.

Prices, taxes, currencies, invoices and order emails use the general Ecommerce configuration.

Compare the FREE and PRO versions feature by feature

Average ratings and comments Combine five-star average ratings and comments in one clear two-step interaction.

Ecommerce PayPal and Stripe APIs available

Sell entries as shipping, download or service, or charge for uploads, via PayPal or Stripe API. Configure prices, shipping, taxes and currencies for your products. Configure checkout notes and agreements. Watermark image files, add download or service keys. Selling download or service and charging for uploads only available in PRO version.

Different file types upload form

Upload form for different file types

Manual or Auto-activation: Instantly display uploaded files in the gallery or review them first.

Different file types upload form and gallery example

See how visitors can prepare a complete photo-contest entry directly in the WordPress frontend.

Video contest gallery Create responsive video contests with categories, ratings, comments and focused full-window playback.

PDF galleries with generated previews (PRO)

PDF uploads and generated preview images are available in Contest Gallery PRO.

Create real PDF preview images from the WordPress backend or a frontend upload form.

Display PDF entries with ratings, comments and other media files in the same gallery.

No Imagick installation is required.

PDFs with preview gallery and PDF upload form with preview example

Social Media Share Buttons

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Skype, Pinterest, Reddit, XING, LinkedIn, Email, SMS, Gmail, Yahoo, Evernote, VK, OK, Douban, RenRen, Qzone, Weibu

Real Custom Post Type Pages behind every entry… so real social share URLs

Social share buttons example

Add YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok Posts

Combine different file types and social embed posts in same gallery

Ask users for consent (GDPR) to show YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok entries option available.

YouTube and photos gallery example

Social media embeds and mixed file types gallery

OpenAI

Create or edit images via OpenAI API

Add created or edited images to your WordPress media library

External services Contest Gallery Network Contest Gallery Network is an optional public gallery directory operated at https://www.contest-gallery.net/.

The plugin contacts this service only when an administrator explicitly clicks “Publish to network” in the WordPress admin area and confirms the Contest Gallery Network privacy notice. After publishing, the listing is refreshed once daily by WordPress Cron while the plugin remains active. Administrators can remove the listing again with “Unpublish from Network”.

Submitted data includes public website and gallery listing information: website title and URL, gallery title, gallery description, tags/categories, the selected public gallery URL, preview image URLs, and public activity numbers such as entries, votes and comments.

The plugin does not submit IP addresses, email addresses, usernames, registration data, comment text, form field values or other private user data to Contest Gallery Network.

Contest Gallery Network may verify domain ownership, review submitted public content and images for safety, and publish the listing only if it passes review. If the service does not receive updates for 14 days, the public listing can expire and be removed from the Network index.

Service privacy policy: https://www.contest-gallery.net/privacy-policy/

Service terms: https://www.contest-gallery.net/terms-and-conditions/

FREE and PRO versions

The free version includes the core gallery, frontend upload, voting, commenting and sharing workflows.

Advanced workflows, including PDF uploads with generated preview images, are available only in Contest Gallery PRO.

Compare the FREE and PRO versions feature by feature

Upload form and gallery examples

Different file types upload form and gallery

Different galleries with different options on same page

Click through galleries on same page

Amazing contest for your WordPress page Normal and registered user galleries

Display entries of all users

User see only own entries which were uploaded by the user after registration and login

Three voting types

IP recognition

Cookie recognition

Login session based (create account via registration form or Google sign in button and login)

Drag & Drop upload form creator

Add field types and arrange them

Add e-mail field and allow to send confirmation e-mail

Available field types: (Files Type, 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-Last-Name, WP-First-Name, WP-Username, WP-Nickname, WP-Email, WP-Password, WP-Password-Confirm, Input, Textarea, Select, Check agreement, Profile Image, 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

Three e-mail types

Admin information e-mail when new file is uploaded

Activation e-mail to user when his file is activated

Registration confirmation e-mail when user create a new account

Contest management Manage activation, categories, entry details, comments, votes, winners and sales settings from one workspace.

Available options Upload form options

Automatically activate user entries after successful frontend upload

Allow only registered users to upload files or to upload you

Restrict front end upload size

Maximum upload size in MB

Activate bulk upload in front end

Maximum number of files for bulk upload

Minimum number of files 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

Inform entry activation e-mail

Inform successful entry e-mail

Registration options

Confirmation text after registration

Confirmation text after e-mail confirmation

Confirmation mail options (Addressor, Reply mail, Subject, Email 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 one-star favorite voting

Allow cumulative or average star ratings

Require a comment for voting, offer it as an optional follow-up or disable vote comments

Inform registered user when there was a vote for his entry

Show custom message after voting

Allow vote out of gallery

Hide voting until user voted

Configure votes amount per user

Show only user 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 to another entry)

Commenting options

Allow comments

Allow comment out of gallery

Inform registered user when there was a comment for his entry

Review written comments

Remove written comments

Contest end options

End contest immediately

Activate contest end time

Gallery view options

Show images EXIF data

Add categories widget when categories field in upload form is added

Allow full window gallery

Number of files per screen (pagination)

Allow search for files (search by fields content, categories or file name)

Allow sort

Random sort

Random sort button

Configure gallery and entry behavior separately for supported shortcode types

Open entries in the responsive full-window blog view

Forward directly to the dedicated entry page or original source

Make gallery entries unclickable when only the overview should be shown

See the responsive gallery, full-window entry view and comment panel on a smartphone.

Single entry view options

View entries in the full-window blog view

Forward to the dedicated entry page

Link to original file source

Only gallery view

Backend language

English

Frontend languages

English

German

Dutch

Italian

Spanish

Portuguese

French

Polish

Slovakian

Norwegian (not complete)

Swedish (not complete)

Russian

Chinese

Own translations can be added in backend