Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

Photo Competition Manager provides everything photography clubs need to run professional competitions online:
Core Features
<ul>
<li>Member Management – Maintain active rosters, assign grades, track member status, and bulk import/update via CSV</li>
<li>Competition Setup – Create competitions with custom categories, grade divisions, submission quotas, and scoring matrices</li>
<li>Secure Submissions – Members upload via magic-link authentication with automatic file validation, resizing, and quota enforcement</li>
<li>Flexible Voting – Token-based member voting, password-protected public voting, and full-screen slideshow mode for in-person club nights</li>
<li>Results Display – Full results tables with filtering, responsive top-3 podium displays, and customizable member name visibility</li>
<li>Email Notifications – Automated emails for upload confirmations, voting invitations, results announcements, and custom templates with merge tags</li>
<li>Setup Wizard – One-click page creation for upload, voting, results, and top-3 displays with pre-configured shortcodes</li>
</ul>
Advanced Capabilities
<ul>
<li>Voting Controls – Open/close voting by category, manage voter tokens, track submission and voting status per competition</li>
<li>Results Analytics – View score distributions, voting participation, and competition statistics from the admin dashboard</li>
<li>Export Tools – Export competition results, voting data, and member lists to CSV for archiving or external reporting</li>
<li>Repository Pattern – All data stored in dedicated database tables for performance, portability, and clean separation from WordPress content</li>
</ul>
Five Shortcodes, Unlimited Possibilities
<ul>
<li><code>[competition_upload]</code> – Member upload form with quota tracking</li>
<li><code>[competition_voting]</code> – Interactive voting interface with live validation</li>
<li><code>[competition_slideshow]</code> – Full-screen presentation mode for club meetings</li>
<li><code>[competition_results]</code> – Complete results table with grade and category filtering</li>
<li><code>[competition_top3]</code> – Responsive podium display showcasing winners</li>
</ul>
Perfect for photography clubs, camera clubs, photo societies, and any organization running regular image competitions.

Photo Competition Manager

Complete photography club competition platform. Handle submissions, member voting, public voting, email notifications, and beautiful results displays.

subbub

Subbub is a submissions management system for use by literary competitions and other markets. It provides a mechanism for the organisers of literary competitions and other markets to receive submissions from writers and to manage those submissions throughout the entire selection process. It may also handle submission fees if required and the display of results once the selection process has concluded.
The plugin currently supports two shortcodes.
<h4>subbub_submit</h4>
This is used to provide a button for use by writers submitting to your market. This will take them to a branded page on the Subbub website where they can upload their submission. Once the submission has been made, the writer will be returned to the page where the button is located.
The selection of submission target may be made at a number of levels: market, event or category. A market may be something like The Bridport Prize or Granta. An event is something like the 2023 Bridport Prize or Granta Issue 161. A category would be something like Short Stories or Poetry.
If the selection is specified at market level and there are multiple events, the writer has the opportunity to select an event and then a category if there are multiple categories. If it’s made at event level and there are multiple categories, the writer may select a category. Targets are specified by number. The owner of a market may find out its number by inspecting it on the Subbub website.
The following options are available with the subbub_submit shortcode:
<ul>
<li>market – This may be used to specify the number of the market to submit to – Example: [subbub_submit market=23]</li>
<li>event – This may be used to specify the number of the event to submit to – Example: [subbub_submit event=105]</li>
<li>category – This may be used to specify the number of the event to submit to – Example: [subbub_submit category=213]</li>
<li>newwindow – If this is set to 1, the page on Subbub will open in a new window – Example: [subbub_submit category=213 newwindow=1]</li>
<li>align – If this is set to center, the button is center-aligned – Example: [subbub_submit category=213 align=center]</li>
</ul>
<h4>subbub_results</h4>
This is used to provide the very latest results from an entire market, one event or just a single category. Up until the final stage, entries are anonymised and only the titles are identified.
Entries are displayed in a simple table, with the placing in the first column and the title (with or without the author’s name) in the second.
The following options are available with the subbub_results shortcode:
<ul>
<li>market – This may be used to specify the number of the market to show the results for – Example: [subbub_results market=23]</li>
<li>event – This may be used to specify the number of the event to show the results for – Example: [subbub_results event=105]</li>
<li>category – This may be used to specify the number of the event to show the results for – Example: [subbub_results category=213]</li>
</ul>

Subbub

This plugin provides shortcodes to interact with the Subbub submissions management system.

Photo Competition Manager vs Subbub