Plugin / Pick Giveaway Winner

Makeworthy Media
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Upload the folder ‘pick-giveaway-winner’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. Go to Tools -> Pick Giveaway Winner. Select the giveaway post from the drop-down menu. Select how many winners you want. Choose how to handle duplicate entries (determined by email). Press the “Pick Winner!” button to randomly draw your winners.
The plugin uses MySQL’s RAND() function to pick the winners directly from the database.
The more comments your post has, the longer it will take to parse the data and determine a winner. Also, if you choose to “Discard multiple entries, but allow the entrant a single entry” the plugin has to do an additional database query to get your results, which takes more time. Be patient and your results will be returned as soon as possible.
It may seem counterintuitive, but if you re-run the plugin on the same post and occasionally get the same winner, this proves that the plugin actually is random. For example, if you roll a dice several times you will eventually get the same number twice in a row. The same thing happens with the plugin. However, if you run the plugin several times in a row and keep getting the same winner, that could indicate a problem.
This is done to reduce strain on the server and avoid problems that occurred when people had more than a thousand posts. Most giveaways should be done by the time you’ve posted 100 more posts, so this shouldn’t cause problems for most people.
Sure! Go to my plugin page at https://www.makeworthymedia.com/plugins/ to donate.
Yes, I would! Thanks to Roni Noone at http://www.roninoone.com/ for beta testing this plugin.

Ratings

4
4 reviews

Rating breakdown

Details Information

Version

1.3

First Released

10 Dec, 2015

Total Downloads

13,060

Wordpress Version

3.0 or higher

Tested up to:

4.9.12

Require PHP Version:

-

Tags

contest give-away giveaway winner winners

Contributors

Makeworthy Media

Languages

The plugin hasn't been transalated in any language other than English.

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