Photo Comp Plugin
Run photography comps on your own WordPress site. Set a theme and dates, take photo entries from your members, let the community vote, and showcase the winners: a brilliant way to keep a photography community engaged between events.
How it works
Submit, vote, showcase
Members submit
Members sign in (or register, in your site's style) and upload a photo with a title, description and optional camera & settings, within the submission window and your per-member entry limit.
Vote or judge
Decide each comp your way: an open community vote (one vote per member), or a panel of judges who score every photo or rank their top 3, or both, with a separate People's Choice.
Winners are showcased
When scoring closes, the top three are crowned on a 1st / 2nd / 3rd podium, ready to feature on your site.
What it does
Themed comps
Give each comp a theme, cover image, sponsor and skill level: Open, Beginner or Advanced.
Member submissions
A login-gated form captures the photo, title, description and optional camera & lens / settings.
Community vote or judged
Open community voting, a panel of judges (score each photo or rank a top 3), manual placing, or judges + a People's Choice, chosen in Settings.
Submission & voting windows
Set open/close dates for entries and for scoring, plus a maximum number of entries per member.
On-brand sign-up
Entrants register and sign in in your site's style: no stock WordPress login screens to break the experience.
Colour themes
Black / Gold, Dark Green, Dark Navy or Charcoal / Teal: match the gallery to your site, globally or per embed.
Pages made for you
Auto-creates Submit, Entries and Results pages wired to the active comp, or drop [photo_comp_*] shortcodes anywhere.
Clean, dark gallery, in your colours
The submission form, entries gallery and results podium are scoped so they sit neatly inside most themes, with four built-in colour palettes to match your brand.
Get the Photo Comp Plugin
Installs on your WordPress site and is included with your Shutter Host subscription, alongside every other tool in the suite.