download Competitions for XenForo 1.2.0

Invigorate your community and engage your website sponsors with competitions.

• Easy to set up competitions
• Competition pages have a sidebar in which competition images are displayed
• Automatically close competitions on the end date, pick the winners and notify them by alert
• Optionally create a discussion for a competition in chosen forum
• See what competitions a user entered/won in their profile
• Home page competitions sidebar block displays random selection of competition thumbnail images
• Permissions to view/enter/create/open and publish competitions

The basics include

• Rich text editor for competition details
• Set the date the competition runs from and to
• Set the number of winners and runners up
• Easy set up of question and answer with optional multiple choice options
• Image upload with crop tool with optional Alt/Title text, caption and link URL

Restrictions and conditions include

• Set usergroup permission to view, enter, create, open and publish competitions globally and on a per competition basis
• Optional age restriction to enter
• Optional country restriction to enter (requires GeoIP for PHP)
• Optional additional restriction rich text
• Optional opt in/opt out tick boxes with marketing message to create a marketing list for the competition sponsor

Options include

• Orient the sidebar on the right or left (the competition images are displayed in a sidebar)
• Force a competition's thumbnail image on the home page sidebar block (when there are several competitions, they are normally picked randomly)
• Optional forum specified for the creation of an associated discussion

The cron

• Opens published competitions on the start date
• Closes open + published competitions on the end date
• After closing a competition, the winners are picked at random and sent an alert, plus the competition author is alerted of the end of the competition
• Note: The cron entry is configured to run at around midnight GMT. This is how the XenForo cron system works. You will need to manually adjust this according to your timezone.