Tribulant Gallery Voting

by Tribulant Software

Description

Simply let users (whether logged in or guest users, your choice) vote/like photos/images on your WordPress galleries. Users can also retract their votes, if the Unvoting feature is enabled by the admin.

Installing and activating this plugin will place a vote/like link and a vote count below each photo of all WordPress image/photo galleries using the shortcode.

Online Demo

You can try out the online demonstration to see how the plugin works.

To log in, go to the demo dashboard and log in with demo / demo.

Support & Help

For support, you can access our support forums to see if your issue was previously resolved there. Otherwise, you can contact us on our support website or on the WordPress.org support forum.

View the online documentation for installation and usage information.

Installation

Installing the Gallery Voting plugin is simple. Follow these steps:

Automatic Installation

If you don’t have the file on your computer:
1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Search for gallery voting to find this plugin, by Tribulant Software.
3. Click Install Now to install it and then activate it after the installation.
4. Go to an existing WordPress image/photo gallery to see the vote/like links below each photo.

If you downloaded it from the WordPress.org website:
1. Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin in your WordPress dashboard and click on Upload Plugin.
2. Click on Browse to search for this zip on your computer and add it.
3. Click Install Now to install it, and then activate it after the installation.
4. Go to an existing WordPress image/photo gallery to see the vote/like links below each photo.

Manual Installation

Extract the zip file to obtain the plugin folder.
Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
Go to an existing WordPress image/photo gallery to see the vote/like links below each photo.

Screenshots

Sample of a WordPress image/photo gallery with the vote/like link and vote count below each photo.

Reviews

Remove the voting icon

By alexvustin2024 on April 3, 2025

Hi! How can I remove the voting icon from other galleries? I need one gallery with voting, not all on the site pages.

By bouzan199 on August 11, 2017

Hello guys, Where do I type in the code . I downloaded the plugin, and it is activated, but there is still no voting option. Thanks for the help.

Doesn't let you unvote

By Stacy (non coder) (functionmunchkin) on September 3, 2016

Not compatible with lightbox either.

Great plugin

By An Clochar on September 3, 2016

This is a super plugin. We ran a photo competition and once all the entries were in we wanted the public to vote on the best photo. The best photo voted by the public receive a great prize.

The support from the Team is excellent and I'm giving 5 stars for the support and the plugin which is so easy to install and have a gallery with a very simple functional voting system.

Thanks guys!

Good plugin, but need to select galleries

By IH Malta on September 3, 2016

Very sipmle and useful plugin, but in our site we need to choose galleries for voting (we do not need to add "vote" buttons to every gallery). I had to add a class to the <p> tag in the plugin template, and add a CSS rule (visibility:hidden or display:none) on the all pages where the gallesies should be without VOTE buttons.
Also, I think the plugin needs an option to reset (delete) the voted IP addresses from database. Now you can delete the outdated IP records manually via PhpMyAdmin. Also, it will be very useful to add another option: the different (separate) vote counting (from the same IP) for the different galleries. And the separate IP removing.

Changelog

1.5

ADD: Meta boxes on the settings page to improve the style. Added About Gallery Voting links and Recommended Plugins.

1.4

ADD: Enable Unvoting feature. You can enable or disable this. Enabling allows your site visitors to retract their vote.
ADD: Ability to retract votes by clicking the new arrow down icon which appears after voting at least once.
ADD: Reset All Votes. When clicking the Reset Votes button, a prompt appears, and when confirmed, all vote counts for all your galleries/images will be reset to 0.
ADD: User ID tracking type for logged-in users.
ADD: Documentation link on the Settings page.
IMPROVE: Clarified the messages in the prompts that appear when reaching max votes.
IMPROVE: Text improvements.
IMPROVE: Voting/Unvoting functionality to prevent multiple requests being sent while one is already being processed.
IMPROVE: Vote count display with “K” and “M” suffixes when reaching high numbers, to avoid styling issue, and it shows full vote count as a tooltip when hovering with your mouse over the number.

1.3

ADD: nonce and check for capability before saving the options in admin.
IMPROVE: Widen the text boxes in admin area (vote numbers).
IMPROVE: Remove jQuery dependency.
FIX: Vulnerability on admin area.
FIX: PHP 7.4 to 8.3 checkup and fixes.
FIX: Admin notice over saving in admin page was showing twice.
FIX: Vulnerability issue and it is now validating responses to avoid XSS in frontend.

1.2.1

ADD: WordPress 5+ Compatibility.
ADD: Alternative [galleryvoting] shortcode feature.
FIX: Some themes filtering shortcode breaking voting.

1.2

ADD: WordPress 4.0 compatibility.
ADD: “Settings” link on Plugins page in WordPress.
ADD: Enable voting for logged in users only.
IMPROVE: Record IP even when cookies are enabled for votes.

1.1.1

ADD: Maximum votes per photo/image/attachment setting.

1.1

ADD: Setting to choose between cookie and IP address tracking.
ADD: Maximum overall votes setting.

1.0

Initial release.