Video Contest WordPress Plugin

With Video Contest Plugin create a comprehensive Video Competition quickly and easily, either on your own WordPress website or as a complete standalone fit-for-purpose website!

Complete Voter Control

Your competition is going to have specifics like terms and conditions that are unique to you, and you need the flexibility to adjust your competition parameters as required.

You can control almost every facet of your competition as required with Video Contest – new submissions – comments, votes, video source and much more.

100% Responsive Design

Video Contest has been designed and developed with today’s users in mind and has been tested with all the major browsers for full compatibility. Of course your users might be in the field using a tablet, or a smartphone and you want assurance that your competition will meet those demands too.

No problem. Video Contest is fully responsive and will display fluidly across all of today’s modern devices as well, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops.

Complete Video Control

You’re going to need design over the look and feel of your competition, as well as the data to analyse submissions and it’s all taken care of right out of the box.

Adjust and edit any text information – even assign videos to categories. You can show or hide names and votes on videos and of course, every view of each video has been automatically counted for you. It’s also exportable data – a marketer’s dream!

Full Integration with BuddyPress

Running a massive BuddyPress community, team or group? No problem! Video Contest has been carefully tested and integrated with BuddyPress so implementation is simple.

Four Best Reasons to Buy the Video Contest

1. Generate lots of new traffic
   Generate loads of traffic as people upload their videos and ask friends and family to visit and vote for them. Creating a contest is also great for repeat traffic as users come back regularly to see their own submissions, check out the competition and look at new images… make sure you are prepared for the traffic boost!
2. Great for SEO for backlinks
   Great for SEO backlinks as people tend to share Competitions they enter, often announcing them by creating new posts on their own blogs. Tweeting and Sharing to Facebook also creates more valid SEO backlinks as people ask for votes and visits of their own entries.
3. Increase your Social Shares
   Social Shares are great for SEO too, and there is no better way to increase your social sharing than having a competition. Create a New Page in WordPress to host your Competition and watch the Shares grow as people link to your competitions.
   Shares spread like wildfire when the content is right and Word of Mouth Marketing is the top end ticket to creating a viral sensation is today’s market!
4. Send Marketing Updates, announce Contest Winners, highlight new submissions via Email Newsletter
   It really is a Marketer’s dream to be able to capture leads and new email subscribers. Not only will you increase your new subs but you can send email newsletters via any WordPress extension your prefer with complete integration of Video Contest for WordPress. Send updates about contest entries, polls, latest trends – anything you like!

Links

Plugin Demo – http://galleryplugins.com/video-contest/

Admin Demo – http://demo.galleryplugins.com/

Online Documentation – http://galleryplugins.com/video-contest/

Web – Video Contest WordPress Plugin

Available languages

• English
• French (France)
• French (Canada)
• Finnish
• Czech

Changelog

Version 3.2 (11/30/2020)

• Optimization for WordPress Version 5.5.x
• Changes – Removed autocomplete from the form dates
• Changes – Removed Google plus icons
• Fixed Issue – Updated core for Facebook videos
• Fixed Issue – Updated core for Instagram videos
• Fixed Issue – Fixed external login shortcode integration
• Fixed Issue – Minor errors bug fix
• Fixed issue – reCaptcha cannot be enabled if the public key is empty

Version 3.1 (03/02/2019)

• Optimization for WordPress Version 5.x
• Optimization for Gutenberg Editor
• Added new Feature – Additional Header Code
• Added new Feature – Ability to add own login-registration form
• Added new Feature – Ability to require registration before the contest
• Fixed Issue – Missing thumbnails from Instagram
• Fixed Issue – BuddyPress activity stream post error
• Fixed Issue – Minor errors bug fix

Version 3.0 (08/30/2018)

• Major change – New Core
• Optimization for WordPress Version 4.9.8
• Added new Feature – New vote option – 5 and 10 star rating
• Added new Feature – Full compatibility for all page builders
• Added new Feature – New color options for the Menu
• Added new Feature – New color options for the Modern and Classic themes
• Added new Feature – New color options for the Vote button
• Added new Feature – New color options for the Email header
• Added new Feature – Ability for judges remove their own vote
• Added new Feature – New vote option for the Jury
• Added new Feature – Added new options for “Welcome email”
• Added new Feature – New notification email for contestants about video approval
• Changes – Added new information to the CSV Export

Version 2.3 (06/15/2018)

• Optimization for WordPress Version 4.9.x
• Added new Feature – Secondary menu layout
• Added new Feature – New options for social sharing
• Added new Feature – New vote option
• Added new Feature – Support for Instagram videos
• Added new Feature – GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) option for EU citizens
• Added new Feature – New Tool for editing users
• Added new Feature – Ability to duplicate the contest
• Changes – New layout on vote page
• Changes – Added Yoast SEO filter for Open Graph metadata
• Changes – Removed autoplay support
• Fixed Issue – Non existing Facebook video thumbnail
• Fixed Issue – Fixed error after voting through email confirmation when IP address protection is disabled
• Fixed Issue – Registration form

Version 2.2 (09/14/2017)

• Optimization for WordPress Version 4.8.x
• Added new Feature – Jury vote option
• Added new Feature – Vote log with CSV export
• Added new Feature – Frontend search field
• Added new Feature – Possibility for user to edit or delete the video (both actions are optional)
• Added new Feature – A new “Rules & Prizes” shortcode
• Added new Feature – A new widget for displaying videos by category
• Added new Feature – 7th layer of protection: Email blacklist filter
• Added new Feature – 8th layer of protection: Unique ID for each vote
• Added new Feature – Reset tool for contests
• Added new Feature – Sorting Top 10 by categories
• Added new Feature – New Submit form mode
• Added new Feature – New gallery layout
• Changes – Improved data export
• Changes – Full compatibility with PHP 7
• Changes – 100% Responsive admin theme
• Changes – Major core optimization

Version 2.1 (02/26/2017)

• Optimalization for WordPress Version 4.7.x
• Added new Feature – 20 new extra optional form fields
• Added new Feature – Export users data to CSV
• Added new Feature – Share page (After submission and after voting)
• Added new Feature – 6th security layer: Vote confirmation by email
• Added new Feature – New Option for fonts
• Added new Feature – New Option for responsive menu
• Added new Feature – Info about user´s location (Country)
• Added new Feature – Secondary Page: Allows have one contest on two pages
• Added new Feature – QR Code
• Changes – New security improvements
• Changes – Design

Version 2.0 (11/02/2016)

• Optimalization for WordPress Version 4.6.x
• Added new Feature – Categories
• Added new Feature – Added Multicontest option
• Added new Feature – Data Export (CSV)
• Added new Feature – Searching videos in admin area
• Added new Feature – New Option: Hiding specific menu buttons and sections
• Added new Feature – New Option: Hiding video author, views and votes
• Added new Feature – New option: Disallow users rate own videos
• Added new Feature – WordPress and Disqus Comments
• Added new Feature – New optional settings for vote button
• Added new Feature – Optional items names in the menu
• Added new Feature – Email notifications
• Added new Feature – Adjustable “Welcome” email for contestants
• Added new Feature – reCaptcha
• Added new Feature – BuddyPress integration – All submissions, votes and WordPress comments will be visible in activity stream (optional)
• Changes – Core omptimization
• Changes – Voting process
• Fixed Issue – Server time and WordPress time works together
• Fixed Issue – Small CSS problems with menu colors
• Fixed Issue – Wrong js time and date format