Photos, Files, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Ecommerce Contest Gallery – Upload, Vote, Sell via PayPal, Social Share Buttons Plugin

File types: JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, ZIP, WEBM, MP4, MOV, TXT, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, CSV, MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A. Social Media Share Buttons: see below. Create galleries (material, modern, responsive) and allow to vote and comment files, photos or YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok posts. Create upload form. Add additional files to every entry. Create user registration frontend forms. Add login form. Add “Google Sign-In button” to login via Google account. Sell entries via PayPal.

Ecommerce PayPal

• Sell entries as shipping, download or service via PayPal or charge for uploads. Configure prices, shipping, taxes and currencies for your products. Configure checkout notes and agreements. Watermark image files, add download or service keys. Selling download or service and charging for uploads only available in PRO version.

Social Media Share Buttons

• Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Skype, Pinterest, Reddit, XING, LinkedIn, Email, SMS, Gmail, Yahoo, Evernote, VK, OK, Douban, RenRen, Qzone, Weibu
• Real Custom Post Type Pages behind every entry… so real social share URLs
• Social share buttons example

Add YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok Posts

• Combine different file types and social embed posts in same gallery.
• Ask users for consent (GDPR) to show YouTube / Twitter / Instagram / TikTok entries option available.
• YouTube and photos gallery example
• Social media embeds and mixed file types gallery

Plugin limitations

• Since 2019: No uploads limitation anymore
• (No 100 uploads limitation anymore)
• Some options available in PRO version only
• To have all options available please purchase PRO version

Frontend video examples (previous versions style)

Contact form and gallery examples

• Different file types contact form and gallery
• Different galleries with different options on same page

Amazing contest for your WordPress page

Normal and registered user galleries

• Display entries of all users
• User see only own entries which were uploaded by the user after registration and login

Three voting types

• IP recognition
• Cookie recognition
• Login session based (create account via registration form or Google sign in button and login)

Drag & Drop upload form creator

• Add field types and arrange them
• Add e-mail field and allow to send confirmation e-mail
• Available field types: (Files Type, Input, Textarea, Select, Select Categories, Email, URL, Check agreement, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)
• Configure subscription e-mail

Drag & Drop user account registration form creator

• Add field types and arrange them
• Available field types: (WP-Last-Name, WP-First-Name, WP-Username, WP-Nickname, WP-Email, WP-Password, WP-Password-Confirm, Input, Textarea, Select, Check agreement, Profile Image, HTML, Simple Captcha, Google reCAPTCHA)
• Allows membership as “Contest Gallery User” WordPress role

Create login area

• Add login area to your website
• Allow voting only for registered users

Three e-mail types

• Admin information e-mail when new file is uploaded
• Activation e-mail to user when his file is activated
• Registration confirmation e-mail when user create a new account

Available options

Contact form options

• Automatically activate user entries after successful frontend contact
• Allow only registered users to upload files or to contact you
• Restrict front end upload size
• Maximum upload size in MB
• Activate bulk upload in front end
• Maximum number of files for bulk upload
• Minimum number of files for bulk upload
• Restrict resolution uploaded images
• Activate in gallery contact form
• Forward to another page after contact
• Confirmation text after contact
• Inform admin e-mail after contact in frontend
• Inform entry activation e-mail
• Inform successful entry e-mail

Registration options

• Confirmation text after registration
• Confirmation text after e-mail confirmation
• Confirmation mail options (Addressor, Reply mail, Subject, Mail content)

Login options

• Forward to another page after login
• Forward to URL
• Confirmation text on same site after login
• Confirmation Text after login

Vote options

• Allow vote via 1 star
• Allow vote via 1-10 stars
• Inform registered user when there was a vote for his entry
• Show custom message after voting
• Allow vote out of gallery
• Hide voting until user voted
• Configure votes amount per user
• Show only user votes (user see only his votes not the whole rating)
• Votes in time interval per user
• Delete votes (frontend users can delete their votes and to another entry)

Commenting options

• Allow comments
• Allow comment out of gallery
• Inform registered user when there was a comment for his entry
• Review written comments
• Remove written comments

Contest end options

• End contest immediately
• Activate contest end time

Gallery view options

• Show images EXIF data
• Add categories widget when categories field in upload form is added
• Allow full window gallery
• Number of files per screen (pagination)
• Allow search for files (search by fields content, categories or file name)
• Allow sort
• Random sort
• Random sort button
• Switch between total different gallery views without site reloading
• Three different views
• Real justified Flickr look, customize height
• Thumb look, define size and margin between thumbs
• Blog look
• Slider look

Single entry view options

• View entries in blog view full window
• View entries in a slider view full window
• Link to original file source
• Only gallery view

Backend language

• English

Frontend languages

• English
• German
• Dutch
• Italian
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French
• Polish
• Slovakian
• Norwegian (not complete)
• Swedish (not complete)
• Russian
• Chinese
• Own translations can be added in backend

1. Install as usual way via your WordPress installer, uploading/installing/activating.
2. Contest Gallery menu point appears on the left site.
3. Create a new gallery.
4. Add files or edit contact form for uploading contest entries.
5. Insert the shortcode [cg_gallery id="1"] in a page. This shortcode shows the gallery in frontend.
6. Insert the shortcode [cg_users_contact id="1"] in a page. This shortcode shows the contact form in frontend.

Documentation to configure different options: Click here..

1. 

   Gallery view

2. 

   Gallery view - dark style

3. 

   Opened single entry view

4. 

   Single entry view - dark style

5. 

   Upload form example

6. 

   Upload form - dark style

7. 

   Upload confirmation

8. 

   File entries gallery backend view

9. 

   Options example

10. 

    Upload form configuration example

V23.1.3

• FIXED: Improved backend images area handling and look.
• FIXED: Security issues found by patchstack.com team.

V23.1.2

• FIXED: Security issue found by patchstack.com team.
• FIXED: Test environment label was not shown in basket if ecommerce test environment was used and “Buy now” was clicked.

V23.1.1

• NEW: Add Instagram entries to gallery.
• NEW: Configure to ask users to agree privacy policy of Instagram to display Instagram content in frontend.
• NEW: Add TikTok entries to gallery.
• NEW: Configure to ask users to agree privacy policy of TikTok to display TikTok content in frontend.

V23.1.0

• NEW: Add Twitter entries to gallery.
• NEW: Configure to ask users to agree privacy policy of Twitter to display Twitter content in frontend.
• FIXED: “Export all fields and total rating” did not work in some cases.
• FIXED: New Files and YouTube entries URLs were not generated in some cases.

V23.0.1

• FIXED: Sorting by voting did not work in backend.

V23.0.0

• NEW: Add YouTube entries to gallery.
• NEW: Configure to ask users to agree privacy policy of YouTube to display YouTube content in frontend.

V22.1.0

• NEW: Charge for uploads. Configure “Upload” as selling type for an entry.
• NEW: User will be able to purchase “Upload” via PayPal and then upload files on the order summary page.

V22.0.0

• NEW: “cg_gallery_ecommerce” shortcode, sell entries via PayPal.
• NEW: Sell entries as shipping, download or service.
• NEW: Watermark image files for selling as download.
• NEW: “Edit ecommerce” options.
• NEW: Configure currency, PayPal payment methods add PayPal Client ID and Secret for PayPal live or sandbox selling.
• NEW: Configure checkout options, checkout notes, agreements and allowed shipping countries.
• NEW: Configure order summary page options.
• NEW: Configure order confirmation mail.
• NEW: Configure invoice options and possible invoice number logic.
• NEW: Show and export ecommerce orders.
• NEW: All translations are now general and valid for all galleries.

V21.3.8

• FIXED: Some entries might get not visible in frontend. If it is the case then go “Edit options” >>> “Status, repair…” >>> “Repair frontend”.
• FIXED: Disabling “Show image EXIF data” in frontend, still show EXIF data.

V21.3.7

• FIXED: Entries might not displayed in frontend after resaving in backend, if certain contact form configuration.
• FIXED: Entries information could not be updated in backend if frontend repair option was used.
• FIXED: Check by cookie for contact form logic improved. Works also now on cached sites.

V21.3.6

• FIXED: Security issue – found by patchstack.com team.
• FIXED: Entries information configured being displayed in frontend not always displayed in frontend.

V21.3.5

• FIXED: Security issues – found by patchstack.com team.

V21.3.4

• FIXED: Outdated version of Chrome or certain configuration in Edge browser can cause STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error when redirecting to another page after upload.

V21.3.3

• FIXED: Select user role group for registered users over Contest Gallery registration form not changeable.

V21.3.2.1

• FIXED: Security issue – found by patchstack.com team.

V21.3.2

• FIXED: Theme CSS of pre tags in Contest Gallery container.
• FIXED: By some themes rendered and visible empty pre tags, in contest gallery parent container.

V21.3.1

• FIXED: Gallery appears with not required borders in some cases.
• FIXED: Security issue – possible Cross Site Scripting (XSS) – found by patchstack.com team.

V21.3.0

• FIXED: Nested frontend output in pre tags in case WordPress wpautop function is used, so output is correctly visible.

V21.2.9.1

• FIXED: Backend “Edit options” not changeable in some cases.

V21.2.9

• FIXED: Security issue – possible Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) – found by patchstack.com team.

V21.2.8.4

• FIXED: Clicking on menu points in “Edit options” scroll menu might cause page reload because of third party plugins which use data-href attribute as href attribute.

V21.2.8.3

• NEW: “Export all fields and total rating” EXIF data will be exported.
• FIXED: Saving options added empty lines to some content fields.

V21.2.8.1

• FIXED: Security issue – possible XSS Injection.

V21.2.8

• FIXED: Frontend gallery titles and subtitles were not actualized in all cases.

V21.2.5

• NEW: Thumb view images not cropped anymore.

V21.2.4

• NEW: Notification visible for deleted images from media library or other third party plugin in backend images area.
• FIXED: Copying a gallery did not copied all values in all cases.
• FIXED: Editing info in user gallery did not show background drop when loading.
• FIXED: Editing info in user gallery did not save category changes. After frontend reload still previous category was visible.

V21.2.3

• NEW: “Minimum resolution for uploading of JPG, IMG and GIF” options.
• FIXED: “Cookie voting just activated” appeared every time at the beginning of voting if “Check by cookie” for voting as recognition method is activated.

V21.2.2

• NEW: Show categories unfolded.
• FIXED: Upload entry confirmation not visible in all cases.

V21.2.1.3

• FIXED: Comment and voting icons overlay in single entry view on mobiles if no additional is added to an entry.

V21.2.1.2

• FIXED: Changes of width and height of thumbs in “Gallery view” >>> “Thumb view” options does not appear in frontend.

V21.2.1.1

• FIXED: “Add files” was not working in backend if “Assign fields” was not clicked before.
• FIXED: Selected wp post type field was not always displayed in the overview as selected during “Assign fields” when “Add files” in backend.

V21.2.1

• NEW: WordPress post fields like “Alternative text”, “Title”, “Caption” and “Description” can be assigned to Input and Textarea field types when adding files in backend.
• NEW: Input and Textarea field types can be added to WordPress post field like “Alternative text”, “Title”, “Caption” and “Description” when uploading in frontend.
• FIXED: Interval conf might not show all available months in some cases.

V21.2.0

• NEW: Frontend look modernized.
• NEW: Backend look modernized.
• NEW: Height view removed due to maintenance and look often equals thumb view.
• NEW: Thumb view logic improved. No breaks on certain device widths anymore.
• FIXED: Some CSS bugs frontend.
• FIXED: Some handling bugs backend.
• FIXED: Right categories count was not shown for user gallery.
• FIXED: Backend gallery might not load, if has no entries, in some cases.
• FIXED: Copying gallery with more then 100 entries was not working.
• FIXED: “Export users data” was not working in “Users management”.
• FIXED: Colors and border radius settings of registration and login form had wrong source. Maybe has to be reconfigured after this update.

V21.1.3.1

• FIXED: Login and registration form not visible after 21.1.3 update.

V21.1.3

• NEW: Voting button centered and size increased in single entry view.
• FIXED: Slashes appeared if additional CSS for gallery and entry view page was added with quotes in “Edit options”.
• FIXED: Mouseover icon info were shown vertical in full window mode in some cases.
• FIXED: Delete (undo) multiple stars votes caused error.

V21.1.2.5

• NEW: Slight CSS improvements backend and frontend.
• FIXED: Undefined variable message in backend show comments area.
• FIXED: Registered username was not shown in all cases in backend show comments area.

V21.1.2.4

• FIXED: JPG images could not be uploaded in frontend in some cases.

V21.1.2.3

• FIXED: Right count of entries in categories widget is not displayed if multiple cg_gallery shortcode galleries with different ids are inserted on same page.
• FIXED: Noindex, nofollow meta tag added to cg_gallery_user custom post type pages.

V21.1.2.2

• FIXED: Shortcode interval configuration did not work for some browsers.

V21.1.2.1

• FIXED: Possible XSS vulnerability found by patchstack.com team.

V21.1.2

• FIXED: Editing fields of user gallery using cg_gallery_user shortcode is not possible if select field is added to contact form.
• FIXED: “Show as info in single entry view” option not available for date field.

V21.1.1

• NEW: “Allow to activate deactivate new frontend entry direct from admin email without being logged in” option.
• NEW: file_get_contents will be done instead of include in case allow_url_include=0 is set in PHP settings, so no error will be produced in that case.
• FIXED: Uploading ZIP did not work in all cases.
• FIXED: “Remove and correct votes” if “Allow vote via multiple stars” was activated did not work.

V21.1.0.1

• FIXED: Copying gallery might cause undefined index error.
• FIXED: Finished contests stay finished if gallery is copied as new “Shortcode interval configuration” settings are available since 21.1.0 to configure start and end time for any shortcode type.

V21.1.0

• NEW: Interval configuration for every shortcode. Configure how long every shortcode should be active in a certain interval, monthly, weekly, daily and set range for every interval type.

V21.0.3.3

• FIXED: Sorting rating by sum if multiple stars voting is activated did no work.

V21.0.3.2

• FIXED: Next and previous file in entry buttons not visible in frontend if additional files were added to entry.
• FIXED: Jpeg files were not visible in frontend if were added as additional files to entry via frontend.
• FIXED: Rotated images in backend not always rotated in frontend.

V21.0.3.1

• FIXED: Search in full window view did not work in all cases.
• FIXED: Sorting by rating for one star voting did not work after 21.0.3 update.
• FIXED: Social share icons were not visible in frontend after 21.0.3 update.

V21.0.3

• NEW: Frontend JS and CSS files minified and summarized in min files.
• FIXED: Delete entries button when using cg_gallery_user shortcode might not always appear.

V21.0.2

• NEW: More social share buttons added: Email, SMS, Gmail, Yahoo, Evernote, OK, Douban, RenRen.
• NEW: Clicking “Back to gallery button” from entry page scrolls to gallery after opening gallery page.
• FIXED: Categories could not be set as sub or third title in gallery.
• FIXED: Sort by WP username in backend did not work with a search value.
• FIXED: Scrolling in blog view from bottom to top might cause incorrect loaded entries.

V21.0.1

• NEW: Adding emojis when uploading or as content in backend and displaying them in frontend possible.
• NEW: Enable to subtitle or third title to display in gallery.
• NEW: Adding multiple gallery shortcodes of same type with same id and different entry_id on single page is possible now.
• FIXED: Files with special chars in name failed to upload in frontend.
• FIXED: Clicking back from full window mode sometimes forwarded to entry landing page.
• FIXED: Line breaks in textarea fields were not visible after saving.
• FIXED: Didn’t scroll to gallery when closing full window if height or thumb view were activated.

V21.0.0

• NEW: Contest Gallery Custom Post Type Pages for new or copied galleries.
• NEW: Every entry has own pages. With galleries as parent pages.
• NEW: Social share buttons available for new or copied galleries.
• NEW: Configure in contact form which input or textarea should be shared on social media.
• NEW: Further options related new entry landing pages.
• NEW: Improved frontend look for new or copied galleries. Entry title, rating and comments count placed under the thumbs.
• NEW: Improved backend look.

V20.0.0

• NEW: Contact form. File upload in frontend is not mandatory anymore. Form can be used to add entries with and without file upload.
• NEW: Entries without file upload are also manageable in backend and will be displayed in frontend.
• NEW: cg_users_upload shortcode ist renamed in cg_users_contact shortcode, but can still be used like always.
• NEW: Improved frontend gallery design.
• NEW: Improved frontend handling when entries opened in full window.
• NEW: Improved frontend handling on mobile devices.
• NEW: Improved contact form design and creation handling in backend.
• NEW: Improved registration form design and creation handling backend.
• FIXED: Forwarding to another page after upload did not always work.
• FIXED: Multiple issues relating gallery appearance and mobile devices in frontend.
• FIXED: Changing added file did not work in backend.

V19.1.5.2

• FIXED: Closing opened file is not possible in frontend, if “Allow sort”, “Allow search” and “In gallery upload form” are deactivated.
• FIXED: Closing opened file is not possible in frontend, if only one view is activated and all other possible “Gallery view” options are deactivated.

V19.1.5.1

• FIXED: Further possible SQL injection ways found by WPScan team.

V19.1.5

• FIXED: Found possible SQL injections ways.
• FIXED: Custom sorting was not displayed in frontend.
• FIXED: 90 and 279 degree rotated images were not shown right in frontend.

V19.1.4.1

• FIXED: Clicking on options tab in “Edit options” might not always display the right options area.

V19.1.4

• NEW: “E-mail to frontend user after frontend upload” enableable in “Upload options”.
• NEW: “Comments notification e-mail for frontend user” enableable in “Gallery options”.
• NEW: “Votes notification e-mail for frontend user” enableable in “Gallery options”.
• FIXED: “Comment will be reviewed” message does not appear, if comment is first comment of a file and “Review comments” is activated.

V19.1.3

• NEW: “Copy original file source link button” enableable in “File view options”.
• NEW: “Forward to original file source button” enableable in “File view options”.
• NEW: Show order of current selected file in slider view.
• NEW: Bigger slider handle button in slider view on mobiles.
• FIXED: Vertical scrolling till submit button in “In gallery upload form” not possible for mobiles.
• FIXED: Clicking on alternative file type like txt or pdf caused instant download of the file, in single file view.
• FIXED: “Download original file button” option could not be deactivated.

V19.1.2

• FIXED: Images cutted on the right side in blog view and slider view in some cases.
• FIXED: Gallery might break after new image upload in some cases.

V19.1.1

• NEW: Improved sorting in frontend.
• NEW: Improved opening image after in gallery frontend upload.
• NEW: Improved slider view look on bigger monitors.
• NEW: Blog view not full window image URL can be copied.
• NEW: Different small improvements frontend handling overall.
• FIXED: Changing orientation on mobiles.
• FIXED: Opening slider and blog view full window on bigger monitors.
• FIXED: Closing blog view full window and appearance blog view not full window.
• FIXED: Different small bugfixes frontend handling overall.

V19.1.0

• NEW: Improved items arrangement in blog view and slider view.
• NEW: Sticky menu with gallery buttons when scrolling down in blog view full window and slider view full window.
• NEW: Improved navigation in slider view.
• FIXED: Hint messages did not appear in backend images area.
• FIXED: Switching from sorting by rating to sorting by date did show wrong order in frontend.
• FIXED: Uploaded file in gallery upload form was not opened after upload.

V19.0.0

• NEW: Custom sorting in backend is available and can be activated for frontend.

V18.0.1.2

• NEW: Management of additional files in backend images area improved.
• NEW: Position of exif data if additional files were added with exif data improved in frontend.
• FIXED: Parse error gallery options for some PHP versions.

V18.0.1.1

• FIXED: Changing additional file to first order shows wrong original file in backend when trying to sort files again.

V18.0.1

• NEW: New “Review comments” option in “Edit options” >>> “Gallery”. Comments can be reviewed and manually activated in backend images area.
• FIXED: Emojis does not appear when clicking on emojis icon when commenting in frontend for some themes.

V18.0.0.1

• FIXED: Using different kind of gallery shortcodes with same id on same page might cause galleries loading error in some cases.

V18.0.0

• NEW: Add additional files to every file post. Like multiple files upload on Instagram. Available for galleries created or copied in version 17 or higher.
• NEW: “Gallery slide out” in “Single file view” changed now in “Blog view”. Relevant for galleries created before 15.0.5 version and where “Gallery slide out” option is used.
• FIXED: Preview thumbnail was not shown for videos on IOS mobile devices.

V17.0.8

• NEW: “You have already voted for this file” icon will be displayed near a voting count in frontend if already voted for a file.

V17.0.7

• NEW: Unix time shown in backend now converted and displayed based on configuration of WordPress timezone settings.
• NEW: ICO file type upload and adding to gallery not possible anymore since WordPress 6.0 restriction.

V17.0.6

• NEW: Check if required tables created and show query and error message if not.
• NEW: Check if upload folder is writable and show error message if not.
• NEW: WordPress Media Library file ID, title and description are added to “Export all fields and total rating”.
• FIXED: Frontend in gallery upload form backdrop did not always appear.
• FIXED: Frontend bulk upload issues in some cases.
• FIXED: Exit full screen via Escape button in frontend.

V17.0.5

• NEW: Some upload validation and frontend handling improvements.
• FIXED: Security issue – possible SQL injection.

V17.0.4

• NEW: Improved multiple stars voting frontend process and visually.
• NEW: “Activated” and “Winner” column is displayed in “Export all fields and total rating” CSV file.

V17.0.3

• NEW: Powerpoint file types can be added: PPT, PPTX

V17.0.2

• NEW: Video file types can be added, uploaded and played in gallery: WEBM, MP4, MOV
• FIXED: Forwarding to file from “File activation e-mail” did not work if cg_users_upload form shortcode was used.

V17.0.1

• NEW: New file types can be added and uploaded in gallery: MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A
• FIXED: “Show votes” and “Show comments” in backend for new file types did not work.

V17.0.0

• NEW: New file types can be added and uploaded in gallery: PDF, ZIP, TXT, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV
• NEW: Select in “Edit upload form” which file types can be uploaded.
• NEW: Configure “Max upload size” for new file types.
• NEW: Facebook share button deprecated. Not available for new galleries anymore.

V16.1.0

• NEW: Allow/Disallow file types as upload option for frontend upload form.
• NEW: ICO images can be added now as file type.
• NEW: PNGs and GIFs can be uploaded only in PRO version now.

V16.0.1.1

• FIXED: cg_users_upload shortcode upload form not visible if certain options combination is activated.

V16.0.1

• FIXED: cg_users_upload shortcode upload form not visible for not logged in users.

V16.0.0

• NEW: Modern upload form. Image upload area always at the top of the upload form. Drag and drop can be done.
• NEW: Bulk upload only available in PRO version.
• NEW: cg_users_upload shortcode can be now added multiple times on same page using different gallery ids.
• NEW: Information for each image can be edited in bulk upload.
• NEW: All kind of emojis can be added to comments form now. No not allowed emojis message anymore when using own mobile device emojis.
• FIXED: Japanese and Korean chars could not be typed in comments and upload form.

Full updates history can be found in changelog.txt in plugins directory.