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Photography Competition Platform Plugin

A connected WordPress system for entrant accounts, photo submissions, pricing, payments, judging, winner exports, books and social poster production.
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Competition operations / One connected plugin

From registration to winner publication.

The platform brings the entrant journey and organizer workflow into one controlled system. It supports both individual services and full competition delivery, with styling aligned to the award website.

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32Defined capabilities
02Entry formats
03Payment paths
07Connected modules

Platform architecture

Seven modules.
One award workflow.

Every capability is grouped by operational responsibility, making the system easier to configure, train and extend.

01Access layer

Accounts & Entrant Dashboard

A branded account area that keeps registration, balance and every entry status in one clear workspace.

  1. 01Custom registration and login forms
  2. 02Dedicated user dashboard
  3. 12Account Funds balance in dashboard
  4. 13My Entries for paid and unpaid submissions
02Entry engine

Submission & Validation

Flexible single-image and series submissions with organizer-controlled requirements and clear entrant feedback.

  1. 03Single-image and photo-series submissions
  2. 04Admin limits for file size, dimensions and image count
  3. 05Popup upload-error messages
  4. 06Ordered category and Topic selection
  5. 19Entry Validation review workflow
  6. 20Topic Order controls
03Commerce layer

Pricing, Billing & Payments

A connected payment system for per-entry pricing, invoices, card payments, wallet credit and prepaid bundles.

  1. 07Submission pricing system
  2. 08Entry invoice creation and payment
  3. 09Stripe payments
  4. 10Account Funds / Wallet payments
  5. 11Prepaid credit bundles
04Communication layer

Transactional Email

Competition-specific notifications with editable branding and safeguards against duplicate payment messages.

  1. 14Custom entry and successful-payment emails
  2. 15Editable invoice email with logo, color, copy and button
  3. 16Optional successful-payment copy to administrator
  4. 17Controlled suppression of duplicate GetPaid emails
05Decision layer

Judging & Winner Operations

Structured scoring and clean winner exports for the team responsible for final decisions and publication.

  1. 18Judging and scoring system
  2. 21Organized Winner Export
06Production layer

Winner Publishing Studio

Reusable production tools turn approved winners into books, social posters and structured delivery archives.

  1. 22Book Builder for winner publications
  2. 23Instagram-ready JPG Poster Builder
  3. 24Structured poster ZIP export
  4. 25CSV, JSON and TXT companion files
  5. 26Poster support for single images and series
  6. 27Portrait and landscape poster templates
  7. 28Template, logo, font, color, size and position controls
  8. 29Drag, drop and resize poster elements
  9. 30Black, gold and white default poster theme
07Control layer

Administration & Theme Integration

Centralized organizer controls and a visual system designed to feel native inside the competition website.

  1. 31Global plugin styling aligned with the competition theme
  2. 32Dedicated admin pages for settings, bundles, email, invoices, posters, books, exports and validation

Entrant to winner

A complete operational journey.

The platform keeps state, payment and publishing data connected from the photographer's first login to the final winner package.

01

Create account

The photographer registers through a competition-branded form.

02

Choose entry

A single image or series is assigned to an ordered category and Topic.

03

Validate files

File dimensions, size and image-count rules are checked before submission.

04

Price & pay

The platform creates the invoice and accepts Stripe, wallet funds or bundle credit.

05

Review & judge

Entries move through validation, scoring and winner selection.

06

Publish winners

Winner data feeds exports, books and ready-to-share poster packages.

Photography award winner exhibition and publication workflow

Poster Builder / Book Builder

Winner data becomes a production system.

Approved entries can generate portrait or landscape social posters, organized ZIP archives and the structured files needed for books, catalogs and downstream production.

Event / Category / Entry Type / Award / Photographer / poster.jpg
  • poster-manifest.csv
  • poster-data.json
  • poster.txt

Organizer control center

Dedicated administration for every critical workflow.

Each operational area has a focused management screen instead of forcing organizers through one crowded settings page.

Global settingsEntry validationCategories & TopicsPricing & bundlesEmail templatesInvoices & paymentsJudging & scoringWinner exportsPoster BuilderBook Builder

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