JPG, PNG, MP4, MP3, PDF, ZIP & more. Create voting & uploading galleries for photos & media. Social Share, User Registration & Sell via PayPal/Stripe.

Wasiliy Strecker / ContestGallery developer

<p>JPG, PNG, MP4, MP3, PDF, ZIP & more. Create voting & uploading galleries for photos & media. Social Share, User Registration & Sell via PayPal/Stripe.</p>
<h3>All-in-One Photo Contest, Media Voting & File Gallery</h3>
<p>Photo contest and other file types voting plugin supporting: <strong>JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, ZIP, WEBM, MP4, MOV, TXT, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV, MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A</strong>.</p>
<p>Create galleries (material, modern, responsive) and allow users to vote and comment on files, photos, or embed social posts from <strong>YouTube, TikTok, X (Twitter)</strong> and more.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Flexible Uploads:</strong> Create custom upload forms and add additional files to every entry.</li>
<li><strong>User Management:</strong> Includes user registration, login forms, and a <strong>“Google Sign-In button”</strong> for easy access.</li>
<li><strong>Monetization:</strong> Sell entries or digital content directly via <strong>PayPal or Stripe API</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Social Reach:</strong> Built-in Social Media Share Buttons to boost your contest’s visibility.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ecommerce PayPal and Stripe APIs available</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sell entries as <strong>shipping</strong>, <strong>download</strong> or <strong>service</strong>,  or <strong>charge for uploads</strong>, <strong>via PayPal or Stripe API</strong>. Configure <strong>prices, shipping, taxes and currencies</strong> for your products. Configure checkout notes and agreements. <strong>Watermark image files, add download or service keys</strong>. Selling download or service and charging for uploads only available in PRO version.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Different file types upload form</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Upload form</strong> for <strong>different file types</strong></li>
<li><strong>Manual or Auto-activation</strong>: Instantly display uploaded files in the gallery or review them first.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/different-file-types-upload-form-and-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Different file types upload form and gallery example</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>PDFs with preview gallery</h3>
<ul>
<li>Display PDFs in gallery with a preview image for every PDF</li>
<li>Create upload form with PDF preview image function</li>
<li><strong>Imagick library</strong> is <strong>NOT required</strong> to be installed on your server</li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/pdfs-with-preview-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">PDFs with preview gallery and PDF upload form with preview example</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Social Media Share Buttons</h3>
<ul>
<li>Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Skype, Pinterest, Reddit, XING, LinkedIn, Email, SMS, Gmail, Yahoo, Evernote, VK, OK, Douban, RenRen, Qzone, Weibu</li>
<li><strong>Real Custom Post Type Pages behind every entry… so real social share URLs</strong></li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/social-share-buttons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social share buttons example</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Add YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok Posts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Combine different file types and social embed posts in same gallery</li>
<li>Ask users for consent (GDPR) to show YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok entries option available.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/youtube-and-photos-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube and photos gallery example</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/social-media-embeds-and-mixed-file-types-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social media embeds and mixed file types gallery</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>OpenAI</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create or edit images via OpenAI API</li>
<li>Add created or edited images to your WordPress media library</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin limitations</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Since 2019: No uploads limitation anymore</strong></li>
<li><strong>(No 100 uploads limitation anymore)</strong></li>
<li>Some options available in PRO version only</li>
<li>To have all options available please purchase <a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/pro-version/" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO version</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Frontend video example</h3>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Us-EYffJtcU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h4>Upload form and gallery examples</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/different-file-types-upload-form-and-gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Different file types upload form and gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/multiple-photo-contests/" rel="nofollow ugc">Different galleries with different options on same page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.contest-gallery.com/click-through-galleries-on-same-page/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click through galleries on same page</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Amazing contest for your WordPress page</h3>
<h4>Normal and registered user galleries</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display entries of all users</li>
<li>User see only own entries which were uploaded by the user after registration and login</li>
</ul>
<h4>Three voting types</h4>
<ul>
<li>IP recognition</li>
<li>Cookie recognition</li>
<li>Login session based (<strong>create account via registration form or Google sign in button</strong> and login)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Drag & Drop upload form creator</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add field types and arrange them</li>
<li>Add e-mail field and allow to send confirmation e-mail</li>
<li>Available field types: (Files Type, Input, Textarea, Select, Select Categories, Email, URL, Check agreement, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)</li>
<li>Configure subscription e-mail</li>
</ul>
<h4>Drag & Drop user account registration form creator</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add field types and arrange them</li>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Allows membership as “Contest Gallery User” WordPress role</li>
</ul>
<h4>Create login area</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add login area to your website</li>
<li>Allow voting only for registered users</li>
</ul>
<h4>Three e-mail types</h4>
<ul>
<li>Admin information e-mail when new file is uploaded</li>
<li>Activation e-mail to user when his file is activated</li>
<li>Registration confirmation e-mail when user create a new account</li>
</ul>
<h3>Available options</h3>
<h4>Upload form options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically activate user entries after successful frontend upload</li>
<li>Allow only registered users to upload files or to upload you</li>
<li>Restrict front end upload size</li>
<li>Maximum upload size in MB</li>
<li>Activate bulk upload in front end</li>
<li>Maximum number of files for bulk upload</li>
<li>Minimum number of files for bulk upload</li>
<li>Restrict resolution uploaded images</li>
<li>Activate in gallery upload form</li>
<li>Forward to another page after upload</li>
<li>Confirmation text after upload</li>
<li>Inform admin e-mail after upload in frontend</li>
<li>Inform entry activation e-mail</li>
<li>Inform successful entry e-mail</li>
</ul>
<h4>Registration options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Confirmation text after registration</li>
<li>Confirmation text after e-mail confirmation</li>
<li>Confirmation mail options (Addressor, Reply mail, Subject, Mail content)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Login options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Forward to another page after login</li>
<li>Forward to URL</li>
<li>Confirmation text on same site after login</li>
<li>Confirmation Text after login</li>
</ul>
<h4>Vote options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Allow vote via 1 star</li>
<li>Allow vote via 1-10 stars</li>
<li>Inform registered user when there was a vote for his entry</li>
<li>Show custom message after voting</li>
<li>Allow vote out of gallery</li>
<li>Hide voting until user voted</li>
<li>Configure votes amount per user</li>
<li>Show only user votes (user see only his votes not the whole rating)</li>
<li>Votes in time interval per user</li>
<li>Delete votes (frontend users can delete their votes and to another entry)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Commenting options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Allow comments</li>
<li>Allow comment out of gallery</li>
<li>Inform registered user when there was a comment for his entry</li>
<li>Review written comments</li>
<li>Remove written comments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contest end options</h4>
<ul>
<li>End contest immediately</li>
<li>Activate contest end time</li>
</ul>
<h4>Gallery view options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show images EXIF data</li>
<li>Add categories widget when categories field in upload form is added</li>
<li>Allow full window gallery</li>
<li>Number of files per screen (pagination)</li>
<li>Allow search for files (search by fields content, categories or file name)</li>
<li>Allow sort</li>
<li>Random sort</li>
<li>Random sort button</li>
<li>Switch between total different gallery views without site reloading</li>
<li>Three different views</li>
<li>Masonry view</li>
<li>Blog view</li>
<li>Slider view</li>
</ul>
<h4>Single entry view options</h4>
<ul>
<li>View entries in blog view full window</li>
<li>View entries in a slider view full window</li>
<li>Link to original file source</li>
<li>Only gallery view</li>
</ul>
<h4>Backend language</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
</ul>
<h4>Frontend languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Slovakian</li>
<li>Norwegian (not complete)</li>
<li>Swedish (not complete)</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Chinese</li>
<li><strong>Own translations can be added in backend</strong></li>
</ul>


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