WP Video Contest Wordpress Plugin

Installation

= Uploading in WordPress Dashboard =

  1. Navigate to the 'Add New' in the plugins dashboard
  2. Navigate to the 'Upload' area
  3. Select `wp-video-contest.zip` from your computer
  4. Click 'Install Now'
  5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

= Using FTP =

  1. Open`wp-video-contest.zip`
  2. Extract the `wp-video-contest`directory to your computer
  3. Upload the `wp-video-contest` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
  4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

= After Plugin Activation =

  1. In admin, you will see `WP Video Contest` on the left. This is the administration panel for the contest.
  2. Set the default settings of your contest (Start date, End date etc.) and Save it.
  3. Create a Page (not Post) to display the contest and enter two shortcodes there:
    [wp-video-contest-menu] and [wp-video-contest-page]

Settings

Basic settings

Basic setup is not difficult. All you need to do is to define the name of the contest, start-date and end-date. You can also determine whether only users or both users and visitors may vote. Everything is checked on the basis of IP addresses, so users can set up multiple accounts on your website but they will not be able to cheat the voting process. Only one vote per video may be made. After the contest has terminated voting is no longer possible. You can also set up the number of columns and rows in the gallery so that it corresponds best to the WordPress theme you’ve selected.

Entries

Videos are included directly in WordPress, so you can edit them using the CMS system’s own tools. Before publishing, you can check every video and activate it if it does not breach the rules you’ve set up.

Rules & Prizes

You can easily set up information on rules and prizes in the contest administration section using the WYSIWYG editor.

Shortcodes

Menu Shortcode

The menu can be displayed using shortcode [wp-video-contest-menu]. It will then be displayed on every page of the contest. It may be modified further by, e.g., changing the colour

[wp-video-contest-menu color="blue"]

Values for the color attribute – grey (default), blue, light-blue, green, light-green, brown, maroon, red, orange, yellow, purple, light-purple, pink, black

Menu height can also be set. The basic height is 42px. style=”slim” will set the height to 34px.
Example:
[wp-video-contest-menu color="blue" style="slim"]

WP Contest Shortcode

Default shortcode for contest is [wp-video-contest-page]. This shortcode is without other attributes

WP Contest Width Shortcode

There are thousands of WordPress layouts of various colours and sizes. The plugin should adapt to these in most cases. But it may not in every case. This shortcode help you control width of the contest. This code have a start and end tag.

Start Tag – [wp-video-contest-width]
End Tag – [/wp-video-contest-width]
Start Tag have only one attribute “width”. So if you wanna use this shortcode you must set the attribute width

Example:
[wp-video-contest-width width="645"]
Width Value 645 = 645px

How to use shortcode [wp-video-contest-width]:

[wp-video-contest-width width="645"]

     [wp-video-contest-menu]
     [wp-video-contest-page]

[/wp-video-contest-width]

Single Video Shortcode

If you wanna show single video, from WP Video Contest, in your post/page use shortcode :

[wp-video-contest-single-video id="VIDEO-ID"]

Example:
[wp-video-contest-single-video id="73"]
 

You can also control video width and height using attribute “width” and “height” :

[wp-video-contest-single-video id="VIDEO-ID" width="VIDEO-WIDTH" height="VIDEO-HEIGHT"]

Example:
[wp-video-contest-single-video id="73" width="600" height="400"]
Width Value 600 = 600px,
Height Value 400 = 400px

Widgets

Widget Gallery

Widget Gallery displays small thumbnails. You can sort images by Newest/Oldest/Most voted/Least votes. You can show up to 50 thumbnails at once.

As you see, on the image bellow, setup is very easy:

Widget Classic

Widget Classic displays largest thumbnails. You can sort images also by Newest/Oldest/Most voted/Least votes. Widget can show up to 20 images at once.

Also here is setup very easy:

Changing CSS styles

There are thousands of WordPress layouts of various colours and sizes. The widgets should adapt to these in most cases. But it may not in every case. Thousands of layouts have thousands of settings, therefore if you need, you can make any changes in the public.css file (wp-video-contest/css/public.css).