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The contest module allows your site to host random games of chance, “Sweepstakes”. Where users can enter to win prizes via a random drawing.
Upon installation a custom content type, (contest) and user profile fields are created.
While a user must complete their profile to enter the contest. To create a low bar for anonymous users to enter. They can fill-in their personal information into the entry form and they will be enter into the contest and a user will be created for them. Logged in users with complete profiles can just click the “Enter Contest” button.
Winners can be selected via a contest’s admin page or the entries exported and printed for a public drawing. Publishing winner’s is a seperate step to allow for confirmation that the rules have been followed.
The same export, (a CSV compatible with Excel) can be provided to sponsors or affiliates for marketing purposes.
I’ve run on several sites and it works pretty well at getting the community and sponsors involved. Sponsors put up prizes which encouraged users to join the site. This expanded our email list which was returned to a contest’s sponsors for marketing purposes.

Contest

Allows users to enter to win prizes via a random drawing, (sweepstakes).

James Luberda

The Y2K Bug Simulator partially mimics one of the potential y2k failures that could (and did) affect some systems after December 31, 1999. The specific failure it mimics is one which typically occurred in systems where years were represented using two digits rather than four. Thus, in an affected system, the day after December 31, 1999 might be rendered as January 1, 1900 (in this scenario, only the last two digits of the year roll over, the first two are hard-coded as “19”).
The bug that this plugin mimics was certainly not the only y2k bug, nor, arguably, a terribly significant one. It is, however, perhaps the most aesthetically interesting. The effect of this plugin on WordPress is to change 20xx dates into 19xx dates across page titles, posts, and comments, as well as archives and calendars.
Some things to note:
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<li>By default, on initial activation following install, only admin-level users will see the effects of the plugin. This can be opened to all users, including non-logged ones, through the new Y2K settings page (new in 1.2).</li>
<li>The date modification occurs immediately after the plugin is installed and activated. It disappears immediately after the plugin is deactivated/uninstalled.</li>
<li>The change is at the presentation layer only. This means, among other things, that all stored site content and data remain unchanged. Moreover, site navigation is not affected. If you click on a link to a post identified as being from February 14, 1914, it will bring you to the post for February 14, 2014 (but still say 1914).</li>
<li>Internal date references are not affected. If you create a post/add a comment while the plugin is active, that content will not be stored with the modified date, but with the actual date, and will show that date when the plugin is deactivated/uninstalled.</li>
<li>Any plugins/templates/other content that do not utilize WordPress core functions for date presentation will not have their dates modified.</li>
</ul>

Y2K Bug Simulator

The Y2K Bug Simulator adds filters to most core WordPress functions that report back a date, rendering 19xx in place of 20xx.

Contest vs Y2K Bug Simulator