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Ryan Novotny

This Giveaway & Contest WordPress Plugin – Contest Cat is a simple, lean & beautiful giveaway tool for WordPress.
Easily create engaging giveaways and contests in a matter of minutes.
<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>
After installing this plugin, simply go to Contest Cat -> Add New
Give your contest / giveaway a title, a description, an image (optional).
Next, set your contest end time, choose if you want to collect names (toggle name on/off), and enter your giveaway’s terms.
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.
<h4>Is Contests & Giveaways by Contest Cat easy to translate?</h4>
Yes. Contests & Giveaways by Contest Cat is fully translateable. Please let us know if you’re interested in contributing.
<h4>Contest Cat Feature Roadmap</h4>
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.
—<a href="https://fatcatapps.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">The Fatcat Apps Team</a>
<h3>Privacy Disclosure</h3>
This plugin stores personal data (eg. names & emails collected using this plugin) in the WordPress database.
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>

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.

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<blockquote>
This plugin was replaced by our better and more recent <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wishpond-social-campaigns/" title="Run social campaigns on wordpress" rel="ugc">Social Contests</a> plugin.
</blockquote>
Use Wishpond’s Sweepstakes App to get users to enter & share a giveaway on your wordpress site. Users enter using Facebook, Twitter or Email.
<a href="https://www.wishpond.com/central/merchant_signups/new" title="Signup" rel="nofollow ugc">Start your 14-day free trial.</a>
Why use Wishpond’s Sweepstakes app?
<ul>
<li>Collect email addresses and new “Likes” and “Followers”</li>
<li>Create your first sweepstakes in minutes.</li>
<li>Run the Sweepstakes app on your WordPress site, Facebook Page, Twitter Profile Page and on Mobile</li>
<li>Built-in Facebook and Twitter sharing on every contest entry and vote drives sharing and traffic back to your WordPress site</li>
</ul>
Highlighted Features Included with Sweepstakes app
Mobile-Compatible: We provide a link that directs users to optimized entry pages for both desktop and mobile users.
Sweepstakes App for Facebook Pages: Our Sweepstakes is built to run in a tab on your Facebook Page. Users enter and share directly on your Facebook Page.
Sweepstakes App for Twitter Profile Pages: Our Sweepstakes is built to run from your Twitter Profile Page. Users enter and share directly via Twitter.
Sweepstakes App work with email only: Our Sweepstakes is built to run using their email only..
Embed on Websites: Each app can also be embedded into your WordPress website.
Collect Email Addresses: Download all entrants’ email addresses. You own them. We never email your entrants.
Collect Entrants’ Data: Download entrants’ name, age, gender, location & Likes automatically via our integration with Facebook’s Opengraph.
Real-Time Tracking: Track campaign metrics in real-time.
Auto-Sharing by Entrants: Entrant’s auto-share an invite with their friends on their Facebook Wall or Twitter Profile and in friends’ News Feeds.
Satisfy Facebookand Twitter Policies: Sweepstakes App is built within all requirements in Twitter/Facebook’s Promotions Guidelines.
Built-in Voting: Each app has built-in voting buttons and counters to maximize sharing and engagement.
<a href="https://www.wishpond.com/central/merchant_signups/new" title="Signup" rel="nofollow ugc">Start your 14-day free trial.</a>
Customization Included with Each App
Custom Form Fields: Need to collect more info from entrants than email address? Add any fields you like and download in an excel file.
Customizable CSS: Change every aspect of each app’s CSS stylesheet to fit your brand.
Translated in 35 Languages: Each app has been translated into 35 languages, including all user-facing text and share messages.
Like-to-Participate Option: You can require that users “Like” your Facebook Page before they can enter your sweepstakes.
Follow-to-Participate Option: You can require that users “Follow” your Twitter account before they can enter your sweepstakes.
Custom Header Banner: Upload a custom banner image to fit your brand.
Choose Multiple Winners: Each app is built to allow you to have one or multiple winners of your sweepstakes.
WP e-Commerce Integration 
If you use WP eCommerce, this integration will work well with it. A ‘Promotions’ menu will be added under ‘Products’ menu for WP e-Commerce
<a href="https://www.wishpond.com/central/merchant_signups/new" title="Signup" rel="nofollow ugc">Start your 14-day free trial.</a>
Wishpond Social Sweepstakes includes more social campaigns, like:
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/social-sweepstakes/" title="Wishpond Sweepstakes app" rel="nofollow ugc">Sweepstakes</a> 
Run a Sweepstakes on your website and/or Facebook Page that gives away a free item or gift card. Sweepstakes are an easy way to engage fans of your brand and get new leads with a very low barrier to entry.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com//photo-contest/" title="Wishpond Photo Contest app" rel="nofollow ugc">Photo Contest</a> 
Engage users to upload photos of themselves and invite their friends to vote for them to win. Photo Contests are perfect for getting new user-generated content and having users engage with each other.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/pinterest-contest/" title="Pinterest Contest app" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinterest Contest</a> 
Engage your community to create boards on Pinterest and vote for their favorites 
Users create a board on Pinterest, where it is shared with other Pinterest users. Then they enter it in your Pinterest Contest (on your Facebook Page or website) where the community can vote on it. Have users create boards of your products to introduce them to their friends and other users on Pinterest and Facebook.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/vote-contest/" title="Vote Contest app" rel="nofollow ugc">Vote Contest</a> 
Engage your community to vote on their favourite photos/candidates entered by you 
A Vote Contest engages users and teams to go head-to-head to get votes from their friends and family for their choice. It can be used to have users vote on which products should go on sale or will be in your new product line or which team will win a grand prize.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/photo-caption-contest/" title="Photo Caption Contest app" rel="nofollow ugc">Photo Caption Contest</a> 
Use Wishpond’s Photo Caption Contest App to entice users to share and vote on written captions (titles) for a brand’s photo to win.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/video-contest/" title="Video Contest app" rel="nofollow ugc">Video Contest</a> 
Engage users to upload videos of themselves and invite their friends to vote for them to win. Videos make for a higher barrier to entry, but give you great user-generated content for your brand.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/essay-contest/" title="Essay Contest app" rel="nofollow ugc">Essay Contest</a> 
Engage users to write about an experience they’ve had or how they would use your products and invite their friends to vote for them to win. Essay Contests have a low barrier to entry and propel users to get creative and give you great, quotable content.
<a href="http://corp.wishpond.com/social-offers/" title="Group Offers app" rel="nofollow ugc">Group Offers</a> 
Create a store-wide or item discount coupon or a group-buy offer. Social Offers is integrated directly with PayPal for automated payment. Use custom coupon codes for unique coupon redemption.
<a href="https://www.wishpond.com/central/merchant_signups/new" title="Signup" rel="nofollow ugc">Start your 14-day free trial.</a>

Sweepstakes app

> This plugin was replaced by our better and more recent [Social Contests](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wishpond-social-campaigns/ "Run social …

Contests & Giveaways – WordPress Contest Plugin vs Sweepstakes app