JPG, PNG, MP4, MP3, PDF, ZIP & more. Create voting & uploading galleries for photos & media. Social Share, User Registration & Sell via PayPal/Stripe.

All-in-One Photo Contest, Media Voting & File Gallery

Photo contest and other file types voting plugin supporting: JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, ZIP, WEBM, MP4, MOV, TXT, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV, MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A.

Create galleries (material, modern, responsive) and allow users to vote and comment on files, photos, or embed social posts from YouTube, TikTok, X (Twitter) and more.

Key Features

Flexible Uploads: Create custom upload forms and add additional files to every entry.
User Management: Includes user registration, login forms, and a “Google Sign-In button” for easy access.
Monetization: Sell entries or digital content directly via PayPal or Stripe API.
Social Reach: Built-in Social Media Share Buttons to boost your contest’s visibility.

Ecommerce PayPal and Stripe APIs available

Sell entries as shipping, download or service, or charge for uploads, via PayPal or Stripe API. Configure prices, shipping, taxes and currencies for your products. Configure checkout notes and agreements. Watermark image files, add download or service keys. Selling download or service and charging for uploads only available in PRO version.

Different file types upload form

Upload form for different file types
Manual or Auto-activation: Instantly display uploaded files in the gallery or review them first.
Different file types upload form and gallery example

PDFs with preview gallery

Display PDFs in gallery with a preview image for every PDF
Create upload form with PDF preview image function
Imagick library is NOT required to be installed on your server
PDFs with preview gallery and PDF upload form with preview example

Social Media Share Buttons

Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Skype, Pinterest, Reddit, XING, LinkedIn, Email, SMS, Gmail, Yahoo, Evernote, VK, OK, Douban, RenRen, Qzone, Weibu
Real Custom Post Type Pages behind every entry… so real social share URLs
Social share buttons example

Add YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok Posts

Combine different file types and social embed posts in same gallery
Ask users for consent (GDPR) to show YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok entries option available.
YouTube and photos gallery example
Social media embeds and mixed file types gallery

OpenAI

Create or edit images via OpenAI API
Add created or edited images to your WordPress media library

External services

Contest Gallery Network

Contest Gallery Network is an optional public gallery directory operated at https://www.contest-gallery.net/.

The plugin contacts this service only when an administrator explicitly clicks “Publish to network” in the WordPress admin area and confirms the Contest Gallery Network privacy notice. After publishing, the listing is refreshed once daily by WordPress Cron while the plugin remains active. Administrators can remove the listing again with “Unpublish from Network”.

Submitted data includes public website and gallery listing information: website title and URL, gallery title, gallery description, tags/categories, the selected public gallery URL, preview image URLs, and public activity numbers such as entries, votes and comments.

The plugin does not submit IP addresses, email addresses, usernames, registration data, comment text, form field values or other private user data to Contest Gallery Network.

Contest Gallery Network may verify domain ownership, review submitted public content and images for safety, and publish the listing only if it passes review. If the service does not receive updates for 14 days, the public listing can expire and be removed from the Network index.

Service privacy policy: https://www.contest-gallery.net/privacy-policy/
Service terms: https://www.contest-gallery.net/terms-and-conditions/

Plugin limitations

Since 2019: No uploads limitation anymore
(No 100 uploads limitation anymore)
Some options available in PRO version only
To have all options available please purchase PRO version

Frontend video example

Upload form and gallery examples

Amazing contest for your WordPress page

Normal and registered user galleries

Display entries of all users
User see only own entries which were uploaded by the user after registration and login

Three voting types

IP recognition
Cookie recognition
Login session based (create account via registration form or Google sign in button and login)

Drag & Drop upload form creator

Add field types and arrange them
Add e-mail field and allow to send confirmation e-mail
Available field types: (Files Type, Input, Textarea, Select, Select Categories, Email, URL, Check agreement, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)
Configure subscription e-mail

Drag & Drop user account registration form creator

Add field types and arrange them
Available field types: (WP-Last-Name, WP-First-Name, WP-Username, WP-Nickname, WP-Email, WP-Password, WP-Password-Confirm, Input, Textarea, Select, Check agreement, Profile Image, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)
Allows membership as “Contest Gallery User” WordPress role

Create login area

Add login area to your website
Allow voting only for registered users

Three e-mail types

Admin information e-mail when new file is uploaded
Activation e-mail to user when his file is activated
Registration confirmation e-mail when user create a new account

Available options

Upload form options

Automatically activate user entries after successful frontend upload
Allow only registered users to upload files or to upload you
Restrict front end upload size
Maximum upload size in MB
Activate bulk upload in front end
Maximum number of files for bulk upload
Minimum number of files for bulk upload
Restrict resolution uploaded images
Activate in gallery upload form
Forward to another page after upload
Confirmation text after upload
Inform admin e-mail after upload in frontend
Inform entry activation e-mail
Inform successful entry e-mail

Registration options

Confirmation text after registration
Confirmation text after e-mail confirmation
Confirmation mail options (Addressor, Reply mail, Subject, Email content)

Login options

Forward to another page after login
Forward to URL
Confirmation text on same site after login
Confirmation Text after login

Vote options

Allow vote via 1 star
Allow vote via 1-10 stars
Inform registered user when there was a vote for his entry
Show custom message after voting
Allow vote out of gallery
Hide voting until user voted
Configure votes amount per user
Show only user votes (user see only his votes not the whole rating)
Votes in time interval per user
Delete votes (frontend users can delete their votes and to another entry)

Commenting options

Allow comments
Allow comment out of gallery
Inform registered user when there was a comment for his entry
Review written comments
Remove written comments

Contest end options

End contest immediately
Activate contest end time

Gallery view options

Show images EXIF data
Add categories widget when categories field in upload form is added
Allow full window gallery
Number of files per screen (pagination)
Allow search for files (search by fields content, categories or file name)
Allow sort
Random sort
Random sort button
Switch between total different gallery views without site reloading
Three different views
Masonry view
Blog view
Slider view

Single entry view options

View entries in blog view full window
View entries in a slider view full window
Link to original file source
Only gallery view

Backend language

English

Frontend languages

English
German
Dutch
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Polish
Slovakian
Norwegian (not complete)
Swedish (not complete)
Russian
Chinese
Own translations can be added in backend

Contest Gallery – Upload & Vote Photos, Media, Sell with PayPal & Stripe