NorrCompetition

NorrCompetition is a Joomla component for contests in which visitors vote for the best entry. The topic is up to the site owner: a beauty contest, a children's smile contest, cars, new films, fitness, pets and so on. Three contest types are supported — photo, video and simple (no media) — and entries can include embedded snippets such as audio service players. When the voting period ends, the component stops accepting votes and shows the results.

Features

• Three contest types: photo, video and simple.
• Custom entry fields (stylist, age, city and so on) with text filters.
• Mini gallery: extra photos on the entry page alongside the main photo or video.
• Video from YouTube, Instagram, Rutube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Wistia.
• Grand prix status for an entry.
• Content plugins are processed on the entry page.
• Standard Joomla categories and multilingual support.
• Contests can be created and edited on the front end.

Contest settings

• Contest activity period; once it ends, voting closes and results are displayed.
• Voting frequency per contest and per entry, with overrides in an individual contest.
• Entry sorting options.
• Results page: winners and all entries ranked by votes, with sorting by fields.
• Comments via Disqus, VK, JComments and Komento.

Entries

• Guests can vote and submit entries, with ReCaptcha support.
• One user can submit several entries.
• Participants can edit their entries on the front end.

Administration

• Manage participants and edit entries in the administrator panel.
• Revision comparison: see what a user changed compared with the previous version of an entry.
• Administrator notifications about new and edited entries.
• Choice of image folder, watermarking and image processing settings.

Anti-cheating and statistics

• Voting limits.
• Checks based on the combination of IP address and User-Agent.
• ReCaptcha plugin support.
• Vote log with CSV export.

Templates and display

• Responsive layout and several templates with configurable layouts.
• Right-to-left language support.
• Videos can be played directly in the entry list.
• Open Graph markup.
• Countdown timers to the start or end of voting.

For developers

• Layout overrides through the Joomla template.
• A set of events for custom plugins.

Compatibility and requirements

• Current version 3.x: Joomla 5.4 or later and Joomla 6; PHP 8.2 or later.
• Version 2.x: Joomla 4.4 and Joomla 5, PHP 8.1 (security fixes only); version 1.x for Joomla 3.10 is no longer supported.
• Translated into 15 languages, with documentation available.