Contests

How to find Contests

Creating a New Contest

Click Create Contest
Edit Status: Change from Published, Archived...put contest is Draft if you don't want it to be visible.
Title: Mandatory (red star)
Banner Image: Upload image file.
Description: All intructions for submissions and voting (e.g. You can only vote once!)
Number of Winners
Winners Type : How will winner be selected
Dates: Submissions Dates, Voting dates
Display votes on front-end
Anonymous voting: ????
Uploads - how many?
Media type, - image, video, both?
Add a custom field - select type....This is for the submission application.
Save Changes - Draft
Publish - Live on site
Return to this page by clicking the edit button.

Submissions:

3 sections:
(1) New Submissions - need you attention - do you want to publish them, delete them, etc?
(2) Approved - all approved images live here.
(3) Rejected - Can't delete - stays in rejected section.
Number of votes appears under each image (for Highest Votes option)

Note - For submission time - you can select from the list or override time by typing into the box.

TO DO:

What will Admin Selection look like in the Approved section?

Publishing the Contest:

By default - all published contests appear on the whitelabel in the new/improved formatted style
Contests also generate an embed code - embedded anywhere on your site - responsive.

User experience:

Front-end user navigate to your page - they'll see banner image and submission/voting dates
During voting period, a pinboard appears at the bottom of the page, one hover, voting options appear.
Click Vote icon. Front-end users can only vote once.

User Submission:

Winner Selection & Communication:

Highest Voted: The winner(s) appears on the contest page automatically. Email address of person submitting appears on the photo page. You can reach out.
Admin selection: Admin decides when to select. The ones selected will appear on the contest page. BY default - all approved submissions are displayed.