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Competitions and what not...

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  1. dogatemywookie
    Member

    ... So we're changing our look and I'm looking at ways to make entering competitions easier on our site.

    At the moment we set up email addresses individually for each competition but due to the amount of competitions we have on the site at the moment, that's becoming a real chore.

    With Gravity Forms do we still have to set up the email addresses or are all the responses managed within wordpress? I'm not completely sure how it all works going off the front page, not for what I would potentially be using it for :)

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday October 9, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    You can opt to send an email notification or not. The entry is stored in the WordPress admin whether or not you choose to send the notification.

    If you want to send email notifications, yes, you need to set up those email addresses. But if you're OK not sending notifications, you can manage all the entries from the WordPress admin and export the data and use it however you like.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday October 10, 2011 | Permalink

  3. dogatemywookie
    Member

    Ah right so I'd only need one email address to say "Thanks for entering keep coming back for updates blah blah blah....?" as I could link that one inbox to the all the competitions being run as long as I use a generic message.

    Also does the system have a way a rooting out nefarious people whould would register under different names but supply the same address details? I've had a few of those....

    We're looking to change themes at the end of this month *fingers crossed* sooooo hopefully Gravity will be the choice to make things easier to follow.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday October 10, 2011 | Permalink

  4. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    P1) Yes, you could. But you can send the email to multiple accounts using BCC or just comma separated addressed. It's up to you.

    P2) You could do this with custom validation if you wanted. It's not built in, but there are hooks to allow you to do it. Or you could just delete the duplicate entries and send the offender and email with a link to the terms and conditions of your competition.

    Posted 13 years ago on Tuesday October 11, 2011 | Permalink