Simple Photos Contest

The plugin « Simple Photos Contest » permit to very simply manage a photos contest.
Made available by « Conseil général de Loir-et-Cher » – delopped by « Artefacts »

About photos

• You can upload photos, add them a description and a photographer name.
• Photos can be ordered by hand (with the mouse ;-).
• Photos are not add to the WordPress media manager, to keep it clean. They are stored in a dedicated folder.
• Two images are computed to show to visitors: one thumbnail and one view. The original photo is stored too but not displayed to visitors.

About votes

• Vote is open and close automatically between this configured open date and close date.
• Several options are possibles for voters:
  ** Only one vote by photo,
  ** or one vote every X hours (like one vote a day).
• You can export all votes in a spreadsheet file, some statistics are proposed in this spreadsheet.
• To avoid abuse visitors must be authenticated to be able to vote. Several authentification schemes are available:
  ** A code sent to a email address
  ** Google account
  ** Facebook account