Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe vs EntryWizard

JPG, PNG, MP4, MP3, PDF, ZIP & more. Create voting & uploading galleries for photos & media. Social Share, User Registration & Sell via PayPal/Stripe. All-in-One Photo Contest, Media Voting & File Gallery Photo contest and other file types voting plugin supporting: JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, ZIP, WEBM, MP4, MOV, TXT, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV, MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A. 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. 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. 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 PDFs with preview gallery Display PDFs in gallery with a preview image for every PDF Create upload form with PDF preview image function Imagick library is NOT required to be installed on your server 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/ Plugin limitations Since 2019: No uploads limitation anymore (No 100 uploads limitation anymore) Some options available in PRO version only To have all options available please purchase PRO version Frontend video example 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 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 vote via 1 star Allow vote via 1-10 stars 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 Switch between total different gallery views without site reloading Three different views Masonry view Blog view Slider view Single entry view options View entries in blog view full window View entries in a slider view full window 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

EntryWizard was developed to cater to the needs of camera club competitions. In these competitions members may submit multiple images with titles and other data attached. Administrators use the software to design web forms, asking for information as text inputs and/or drop-down menu items as well as image files. They may set up any number of different “layouts” ( specifications of what information to ask for and what limits to enforce ), assigning an identifier to each. Here is one example of the sort of rules a layout is able to specify: Each image must have: a short title; a “Category”, which must be one of “Nature”, “Photojournalism”, “Still Life” or “Portrait”; a “Format”, which must be one of “Digital”, “Slide” or “Print” Up to 6 entries may be submitted, each with or without a digital version Any image of type “Digital” must have an uploaded digital version At most 2 of the 6 images may be in the “Nature” category. The images must be in jpeg format, with maximum dimensions of 1280 x 1024 pixels, longest dimension no less than 900 pixels, and size no greater than 1M. Each webform is given a unique alphanumeric identifier, and this identifier is used within a shortcode to insert the webform in a page or post. Any number of different webforms may be created, and one of the layouts is assigned to each one. Multiple webforms may appear on one page, although currently they have to be submitted individually. Each webform separately may be set as “open for upload” or “closed”. If it is open, the shortcode is replaced by the upload form. If it is closed, the shortcode is replaced by a message saying that the upload is closed. A closed webform may also be opened temporarily to specified members only, and an open webform may be set to close automatically at a specified time. When items have been uploaded, the administrator may either view the items online, or download them. The downloaded image files may be renamed in various ways. A spreadsheet (in comma-separated .csv format) showing the uploaded data together with some optional information about the users, may also be downloaded. The uploaded images may be attached to pre-existing pages for display in a gallery. There is a fine-grained permissions system allowing administrators to grant an individual user various levels of control over the webforms and layouts. Only logged-in users may see the webform. Users of this plugin may also be interested in using Flexishow (https://sourceforge.net/projects/flexishow/) to run a slideshow using the information in the spreadsheet to select the images displayed. EntryWizard has a companion plugin called Ewz-Rating (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewz-rating/). It is designed for display and online judging of items uploaded via EntryWizard. Privacy This plugin does not send any data to external servers. It does store in the wordpress database whatever data is requested in the forms designed by the administrator. Viewing of such data using the plugin’s shortcodes is always restricted to logged-in users, and is usually further restricted by the administrator.