i'd like to run a contest on a wordpress site where people submit articles. i post the articles and give visitors the ability to vote on their favorite article. easy enough, but there's some stipulations: 1. I do NOT want to force visitors to have to sign up/register for my site 2. I want to limit it to one vote per IP address. 3. I need to offer an unlimited amount of submissions all the plugins i've found don't offer all three stipulations. any idea of any polling plugins out there that do? please advise. thanks in advance!
I did not try that one. This article scared me off. I too plan to run a give-a-way contest so I can't take the risk that the votes can be manipulated. Especially when the author of the plugin no longer provides support. Any other plugins you know of that meets the requirements?
I don't unfortunately, My friend using this plugin since 10 months ago or so. Also the article you mentioned written on December 21, 2009 TWO years ago, and it doesn't look like the Author gave up on it. he update the plugin two months ago.
thanks. I installed that plugin and it does seem to be doing what I need. My only concern is that the safeguards that the plugin uses to block duplicate votes are easy to get around for those "in the know". One thing they do is install cookies on voters computers to identify them as having already voted. The other safeguard is restricting 1 vote for IP address. I just wish there was another safeguard I could take to prevent contestants from gaming the system and voting twice. It's pretty easy to remove cookies and mask an IP...right?