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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.

Weborithm

<p>Host Showdown popularity contests on your site and allow your visitors to rate their favorite things!</p>
<p>The plugin engages your visitors attention and hooks them on your site, as long as you have fun content to serve them!</p>
<p><a href="http://test.weborithm.com/hotornot" title="Hot or Not demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out the demo site here</a>.</p>
<p>Bored of just images? No problem!</p>
<p>The plugin allows you to show other media like embedded videos, text etc… from your Competitor content area. We have an example of how to show Videos on our test site.</p>
<p>With a delightfully easy setup process you can start your first contest within a couple of minutes of installation. Visit the handy <a href="http://test.weborithm.com/hotornot/documentation/" title="Hot or Not documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> on our test site to get started. Quick help questions are answered within the plugin too.</p>
<p><strong>Features include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Upload as many Competitors as you like.</li>
<li>Add as many Groups as you like.</li>
<li>Use the shortcode generator to show Group based contests.</li>
<li>Easily edit your Competitors.</li>
<li>Display a transition message.</li>
<li>Customize colors to your theme.</li>
<li>Easily customize displayed text.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Official Site</strong></p>
<p>For more information, and to take a look at the Pro version, visit our website – <a href="http://showdownplugin.com" title="Hot or Not Script" rel="nofollow ugc">ShowDown</a>.</p>


Showdown

Showdown popularity contests on your site!

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