Makeworthy Media

<p>This plugin randomly selects a winner or winners from the comments of a giveaway post. It only lists the 100 most recent posts to reduce strain on your server. You can disqualify people who’ve entered more than once (determined by email), or reduce their entries to only one. The plugin uses MySQL’s random function RAND() to randomly select the winners directly from the database.</p>


Pick Giveaway Winner

Full disclosure: I am the plugin author. Someone just left a 1-star review because they misunderstood what the plugin is supposed to do. I thought I'd help balance out the average by leaving my own review.
Just to be clear, this plugin randomly selects a comment from a post. It only works if you're logged into Wordpress and go to Tools -> Pick Giveaway Winner. It does not insert anything into a post/page. It does not let you ask your visitors a question. I'm leaving a 5-star review because the plugin does what it says it does.



Works as described

Randomly select a winner or winners from the comments of a giveaway post.

spencersokol

<p>And The Winner Is… is a WordPress plugin that helps you manage product giveaways by allowing you to mark posts as “contests”. Each contest has a user-specified number of winners that can be selected at random from comments for that giveaway post.</p>
<p>The problem is a simple one. Many site owners run contests that allow entries as comments on a blog post, but managing entries and randomly selecting winners is a chore. And The Winner Is… helps to solve this problem by managing the comment entries and winners by selecting those winners at the click of a button.</p>
<h3>Future Releases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Contest pagination</li>
<li>Contest filtering (AJAX) & sorting</li>
<li>Automatic notification to a confirmed winner</li>
<li>Alternate randomization options</li>
<li>Ignore certain email addresses</li>
</ul>


And The Winner Is…

Manage your product giveaways by marking posts as "contests" and selecting a random comment from a contest post as the winner.

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