Like Facebook page before the vote

This addon helps grow your Facebook business page subscribers by prompting users to like your page before they can vote in the contest.

Addon Settings

In the addon settings, you can customize:

  • The Facebook Group ID for collecting likes
  • The popup modal’s title and description
  • WPML support (for multilingual sites)
  • Google Analytics social tracking (sends events to GA when users like or unlike your page)

Contest Settings

For each individual contest, you can:

  • Disable the Facebook Like addon
  • Override the global Group ID

Important Notice (Applies Only to Non-Logged-In Users)

If a user likes your page, votes, and later tries to vote from a different browser or device, they’ll see the like popup again. This is because the session is stored in cookies for 30 days, and the new browser doesn’t detect the previous like. Logged-in users won’t encounter this issue.

Installation

  1. Install and activate the addon as a plugin.
  2. Navigate to Photo Contest > Addons to configure the initial settings.

Changelog

27 October 2025 – tested with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.4

/* version 0.9 – October 8, 2019 */

– Removed FB login and FB events that causes too many issues, now user have to click “I already liked” to hide the modal

/* version 0.7 – August 29, 2018 */

– Bugfix: not logged in user can’t vote event if this allows in settings

/* version 0.6 – June 30, 2018 */

– Page widget replaced to Like button to fix issues with FB tracking “like” event after FB update

== version 0.5 > April 20, 2017 ==

  • [new] Comatibily fixes with main plugin version 2.2.500+
  • [new] Now possible override global FB Group settings in each contest
  • [new] If user logged in – he need like group just once, and result will be saved in user meta (until FB Group ID will be chagned)

== April 2, 2016 > version 0.41 ==

  • fixed little mistake

== December 30, 2015 > version 0.4 ==

  • addons API v2 support

== September 16, 2015 > version 0.2 ==

  • mobile fixes

== September 14, 2015 > version 0.1 ==

  • initial release

Screenshots

Modal Modal
Addon global settings Addon global settings
Addon contest settings Addon contest settings