TotalContest WordPress contest plugin
TotalContest is a
powerful WordPress contest plugin dedicated to running and
managing contests and competitions on your website. It was engineered to
give complete control over the contest by providing many
features and options with optimized performance and an easy interface.
Do you need a poll system?
Do you need a survey system?
Do you need a rating system?
User Friendly
With TotalContest, you can now
create contests within 60 seconds! Its user-friendly interface was expertly
designed to make contest
creation hassle-free.
Mobile-first
With Totalcontest, you gain more engagement with an optimal
viewing experience for your visitors. And your
contests will always look amazing, whether on a
laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
SEO Friendly
Search Engine Optimization is a very crucial factor for every
website. Thus, TotalContest makes
contests more search-engine friendly to get more search traffic.
Customization
Do you need a “Landing” or a custom “Thank you” page? We have
got your back! With over five
customization settings, you have total control.
Custom Fields
Collecting additional information from voters has never been
that easy. With our unique ten different field types, you can collect
everything.
Statistics
Regular vote and submission tracking has been made easy. You can now
track votes and submissions daily, weekly, and monthly.
Performance
TotalContest was
developed with performance in mind! It
functions without a glitch with WordPress.
Field types
Get more from your contests with Rich Text,
images, video,
audio, and more.
Integration
Totalcontest integrates your contests everywhere, like with a
shortcode, widget, or direct link.
Logs
Traceback every vote and submission with an
informative log (status, IP, browser, and time)
to identify any cheating attempts.
Voting & Participation Limitations
The ability of TotalContest to control votes and submissions makes it
easy for you to specify
conditions under which visitors can vote or participate in a
contest.
Extensible
The extensibility of TotalContest makes such
extensions and
templates possible. Developers can undoubtedly
take TotalContest a step further to
suit your needs.
Compatibility
TotalContest is compatible with other plugins
and technologies like WPML,
Polylang, ACF,
WP SUPER CACHE, Varnish,
HHVM, W3 Total Cache, and
others.
Translations
Please help us
translate TotalContest into your language.
Store
Enrich your contests with premium templates and extensions from the
creators of TotalContest.
Templates
Make your contests look compelling with customized templates.
Extensions
Take TotalContest’s functionality a step further with powerful
extensions.
Demonstrations
Photo
contest
A photo contest with essential fields and configuration.
Video
contest
Video contest with essential fields and configuration.
Audio
contest
Audio contest with essential fields and configuration.
Essay
contest
Essay contest with essential fields and configuration.
Knowledge Base
The
knowledge base
covers every aspect of TotalContest functionality and provides step-by-step tutorials and guides to get started
with TotalContest in
almost no time.
Customer Support
Customer support
is our most important priority. That’s why ~70% of reviews are about support quality. We take this
responsibility
very seriously.
Features list
General
Made for WordPress using WordPress APIs.
Easy installation.
Easy contest creation process.
One-click updates.
User-friendly interface with a mobile-first approach.
SEO-ready contests enriched with schema.org structured data.
Unlimited contests, submissions, designs, colors, layouts, and fonts with
customization settings.
Custom fields: text, text area, checkbox, category, image, video, audio, rich text, file, drop-down
selection
menu
with custom CSS classes and validations (email, required, etc.…).
Portable contests. Export and import any contest with WordPress built-in
tool.
Detailed statistics and results.
Logs with detailed information (time, IP, browser, etc…).
Support for WordPress 3.8+.
Support third-party plugins and technologies: WPML, Polylang, ACF, WP
Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, Varnish, HHVM, and Nginx.
Different limitations: Cookies, IP, user role, date and time, quota,
and others.
Easy integration with WordPress: Widget, shortcode, or direct link.
RTL support.
Contests archive.
Cache compatibility (W3 Total Cache, Super Cache, Quick Cache, Fastest
Cache, WP Rocket, WPEngine, ZenCache, HyperCache, Varnish).
AJAX-powered contests with fallback.
Translatable.
Support and knowledge base directly from your WordPress dashboard.
Contest
Create, edit, trash, and delete contests.
Edit contest title and settings.
List contests with shortcodes and total submissions and votes.
Submissions
Preview submission.
List submissions and total votes.
Mark submission as the winner.
Override votes.
Limitations settings
Block re-vote/participation by cookies with the possibility of setting a custom
timeout.
Block re-vote/participation by IP with the possibility of setting a custom timeout and
white-listing and black-listing.
Set membership exclusivity (only selected user roles can vote).
Enable captcha (powered by reCaptcha).
Set a quota.
Set a start or end date or both.
Custom fields
Manage custom fields.
Set the default value.
Enable validations.
Filled (required).
Email
Unique.
Allowed or forbidden words.
Regular expressions (regex).
File size.
File formats.
Image dimensions.
Video/Audio length.
Set custom CSS classes for field input and label.
Customize field template.
Include in statistics.
Design settings
Change the contest’s template.
Set default values.
Reset to default values.
Customize typography settings (font family, line height, size).
Customize the template’s settings (colors, layouts, submissions per row, etc…).
Pages settings
Set landing page content.
Create custom content pages.
Extensions manager
Install extension.
Uninstall extension.
Activate extension.
Edit extension.
Templates manager
Install template.
Uninstall template.
Activate template.
Edit template.
Store
View extensions and templates.
Install or update extensions and templates directly from the store.
Tools
Migrate from TotalContest 1. x.
Purge cache (Templates cached CSS).
Import contests.
Export contests.
Update
Activate TotalContest with the Envato license key to receive updates
directly on the WordPress dashboard.
Support / Help
Search the knowledge base.
Open a support ticket.
Download debug and system information.
2.6.0
Change Log
2.5.0
Change Log
2.4.0
Change Log
2.3.0
Change Log
2.2.0
Change Log
2.1.2
Change Log
2.1.1
Change Log
2.1.0
Change Log
2.0.2
Change Log
2.0.1
Change Log
2.0.0
Change Log
Version 1.4.0 (2018-03-03)
New Features
Template switcher.
Adding support for in-theme templates (Like WooCommerce and
bbpress, the templates will always take precedence).
Improvements
Improved modules management.
Some directories names are lowercase now to avoid case-sensitive OS
bugs.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug in pagination.
Version 1.3.0 (2017-11-18)
New Features
AJAX-powered contest browsing.
Logs export.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug with uploading on Firefox.
Fixed a bug in the timezone.
Fix the upload shortcode.
Fix the expressions saving bug.
Version 1.1.1 (2017-05-31)
Bug Fixes
Restrictions
The user-based restriction is not working correctly.
Limitations
All limitations now follow the WordPress timezone instead of the server
timezone.
Version 1.1.0 (2017-05-22)
New Features
Contest editor
Display custom content before/after submission content.
Give the ability to choose which image size should be used for
gallery view.
Ability to change “no preview” image to another image.
Notifications
Send a notification when a submission has been created.
Bug Fixes
Shortcodes
The contest standalone gallery shortcode should display submissions
properly now.
Tools
Expression is not being saved.
Version 1.0.2
Bug Fixes
Fix a bug where some hosting environments won’t pass the HTTP method
correctly (fallback added).
Version 1.0.1
New Features
Spanish language (CreditL Jose Pedraza. Thank you so much!).
Bug Fixes
Fix a bug where WordPress fails to handle saving correctly.
Version 1.0.0
First release! “Hello, World” says TotalContest.