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Ryan Novotny

<p>This Giveaway & Contest WordPress Plugin – Contest Cat is a simple, lean & beautiful giveaway tool for WordPress.</p>
<p>Easily create engaging giveaways and contests in a matter of minutes.</p>
<h4>Highlights</h4>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful design – contests & giveaways look great out of the box</li>
<li>People can enter your contests & giveaways by entering their email.</li>
<li>Randomly select contest & giveaway winners.</li>
<li>Remember contestants using cookies. (People who have already entered your contest or giveaway, will be shown a “thanks for entering” page, instead of being asked to enter again.)</li>
<li>Schedule contest / giveaway end date.</li>
<li>Customzie contest / givaway terms of service.</li>
<li>Add an image to your contest / giveaway landing page. </li>
<li>Use WordPress’ built-in rich text editor (tinymce) to describe your contest.</li>
<li>Contest Cat automatically detects & merges duplicate contest entries.</li>
<li>This WordPress Contest & Giveaway Plugin tracks your contestant’s IP address so you can detect fraud.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How to set up this WordPress Contest & Giveaway Plugin?</h4>
<p>After installing this plugin, simply go to Contest Cat -> Add New</p>
<p>Give your contest / giveaway a title, a description, an image (optional).</p>
<p>Next, set your contest end time, choose if you want to collect names (toggle name on/off), and enter your giveaway’s terms.</p>
<p>That’s it. In order to publish your contest, simply paste your shortcode (eg. <code>[contest-cat id="733"]</code>) into any blog post or page.</p>
<h4>Is Contests & Giveaways by Contest Cat easy to translate?</h4>
<p>Yes. Contests & Giveaways by Contest Cat is fully translateable. Please let us know if you’re interested in contributing.</p>
<h4>Contest Cat Feature Roadmap</h4>
<p>This is just the first version of our WordPress Contest plugin – we have tons of new features & improvements lined up. Do you have any suggestions? Please leave a comment in the support forums.</p>
<p>—<a href="https://fatcatapps.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Fatcat Apps Team</a></p>
<h3>Privacy Disclosure</h3>
<p>This plugin stores personal data (eg. names & emails collected using this plugin) in the WordPress database.</p>
<p>Our full privacy policy is available here: <a href="https://fatcatapps.com/legal/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://fatcatapps.com/legal/privacy-policy/</a></p>


Contests & Giveaways – WordPress Contest Plugin

When running contest campaigns this plugin makes the job so quick. I can just copypaste their shortcode into a page and the landing page for the contest is ready. Email collection is done for you along with IP information for the participants. Highly recommended!

Great for a viral marketing campaign

Contest Cat Lets You Create Incredible Contests, Giveaways & Sweepstakes With Ease.

Rewards Fuel

<p><strong>Contests by Rewards Fuel</strong> connects your WordPress site to the Rewards Fuel platform. Use this plugin to embed live contests on any post or page. Create contests, entry methods, prizes, and rules in the <strong>Rewards Fuel web dashboard</strong> — the plugin handles connection and embedding.</p>
<h4>What this plugin does</h4>
<ul>
<li>Connect your site with an API key from <strong>Account <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> WordPress Integration</strong> in the dashboard</li>
<li>View your contests inside <strong>WordPress admin <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Rewards Fuel</strong></li>
<li>Copy a shortcode or use the <strong>Rewards Fuel Contest</strong> Gutenberg block</li>
<li>Embed the contest widget on posts, pages, and most themes</li>
<li>Link out to the dashboard to edit contests, view stats, and pick winners</li>
</ul>
<h4>What you build in Rewards Fuel (not inside WordPress)</h4>
<ul>
<li>Contest schedule, rules, prizes, and appearance</li>
<li>Entry methods (social actions, newsletter signup, questions, referrals, and more — by plan)</li>
<li>Hosted contest page at <code>r-f.page</code> or embed on your own site</li>
<li>Statistics, CSV export, winner selection, and prize claim flow</li>
</ul>
<h4>Popular entry methods</h4>
<p>Available entry methods depend on your plan. Examples include:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Click to enter</strong> — simple one-click entry</li>
<li><strong>Newsletter signup</strong> — collect email addresses (with optional confirmation for newsletter entries)</li>
<li><strong>Refer a friend</strong> — bonus entries when friends enter via a share link</li>
<li><strong>Answer a question</strong> — collect feedback or quiz answers</li>
<li><strong>Visit a URL</strong> — drive traffic to a landing page</li>
<li><strong>Code word</strong> — entrants enter a secret phrase</li>
<li><strong>Social actions</strong> — Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Discord, Telegram, Twitch, and more (link-based actions; availability varies by plan)</li>
<li><strong>Email list member</strong> — allow pre-approved emails on your contest list to enter</li>
<li><strong>File upload</strong> — photo or document submissions</li>
</ol>
<h4>Platform features (dashboard)</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Physical and digital prizes</strong> — upload digital prize files; winners claim online</li>
<li><strong>Geo restrictions</strong> — block selected countries from entering</li>
<li><strong>Bot protection</strong> — optional Cloudflare Turnstile per contest</li>
<li><strong>Custom appearance</strong> — colors, fonts, backgrounds, and widget wording</li>
<li><strong>11 widget languages</strong> — English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese</li>
<li><strong>Contest statistics</strong> — entries, methods, countries, traffic, referrers, device breakdown, and entrant summaries</li>
<li><strong>CSV export</strong> — download confirmed entrants from the dashboard</li>
<li><strong>Winner tools</strong> — random or manual winner selection; optional auto-pick and winner notification emails when the contest ends</li>
<li><strong>Scheduled draws</strong> — weekly, daily, or end-of-contest prize draws while live</li>
<li><strong>Copy a contest</strong> — duplicate setup for your next campaign</li>
</ul>
<h4>Embed on WordPress</h4>
<p>After connecting your API key, embed any contest with:</p>
<pre><code>[rewardsfuel id="YOUR_CONTEST_REF"]
</code></pre>
<p>Legacy shortcodes still work:</p>
<pre><code>[rf_contest id="123"]
</code></pre>
<p>Or add the <strong>Rewards Fuel Contest</strong> block in the block editor.</p>
<h4>Pricing</h4>
<p>Rewards Fuel offers a free tier plus paid plans with more entry methods and stats. All paid plans include unlimited contests and entries. See current pricing at <a href="https://rewardsfuel.com/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">rewardsfuel.com/pricing</a>.</p>
<h4>Get started</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://app.rewardsfuel.com/signup" rel="nofollow ugc">Create a free account</a></li>
<li>Create a contest in the dashboard</li>
<li>Generate an API key under <strong>Account <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> WordPress Integration</strong></li>
<li>In WordPress: <strong>Rewards Fuel <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Your account</strong> <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> paste your key</li>
<li>Copy the shortcode from <strong>Rewards Fuel <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Contests</strong> into any post or page</li>
</ol>
<p>Questions? Email <a href="mailto:info@rewardsfuel.com" rel="nofollow ugc">info@rewardsfuel.com</a>.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>Widget copy supports 11 languages (configured per contest in the dashboard). The WordPress plugin admin UI is English.</p>


Contests by Rewards Fuel

Embed Rewards Fuel contests on your WordPress site with a shortcode or block. Create and manage campaigns in the Rewards Fuel dashboard.

Contests & Giveaways – WordPress Contest Plugin vs Contests by Rewards Fuel