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Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers

by Syed Balkhi · Uncategorized

Also makes 95 other plugins · 21.6M+ installs across the portfolio →

The best WordPress giveaway plugin. Grow your email list, website traffic, and social media followers with viral contests, giveaways, and sweepstakes.

M WP Mayor reviewed this plugin RafflePress Review: A Flexible WordPress Giveaway Plugin Read review ↗
How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

95 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 80/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-55% vs prior 30d
98Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

7.0K

now · peak 28.0K

7K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Giveaways and Contes · #1127 you Giveaways, Contests · #10939 Woobox · #7004 Contests by Rewards · #21791

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.9Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

349per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

3

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v1.12.23

43

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.12.23 · 2mo ago1.12.22 · 3mo ago1.12.21 · 9mo ago1.12.19 · 1.0y ago1.12.18 · 1.1y ago1.12.17 · 1.8y ago1.12.16 · 2.0y ago1.12.14 · 2.4y ago1.12.13 · 2.4y ago1.12.10 · 2.5y ago1.12.9 · 2.5y ago1.12.8 · 2.5y ago1.12.7 · 2.5y ago1.12.5 · 2.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 93% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.12 93%
v1.11 5.5%
Older / other versions 1.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈25K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-09-16 · 1,452 observations

20KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
1.12.24
Last updated
1mo ago
Added
2018-09-09 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
6.3
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
5.3.3

Recent reviews

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  1. nocoffeejusttea3
    4mo ago

    A nice bit of fun. Well done to the creators for doing a good job.

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  2. Tom In-Europe
    11mo ago

    I love this tool!!! Tom

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  3. nameservarmbj
    1.8y ago

    This is awesome plugin

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  4. jarlhalla
    2.3y ago

    Hello RafflePress team! 🎉 After trying your amazing plugin, I'm impressed with how easy it is to organize giveaways and contests with RafflePress. The way it simplifies collecting emails, web traffic, and social media followers is simply brilliant. 🌟 Thank you for offering such a powerful tool to empower the masses and help us grow in every way. 🚀 Its intuitive features, exceptional support, and customization options make this plugin a gem for any business or blog. Keep up the excellent work! #MarketingMagic #RafflePower 💌

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  5. digicreationsno1
    2.5y ago

    Excellent plugin, highly recommend.

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  6. patrykos3601
    2.7y ago

    Unfortunately, as a free plugin, you can’t do anything with it, you have to pay $39.50, and the price on the website is misleading because it’s always listed as $79, with the promotion lasting all year long, it’s cheating people by misleading them into thinking that they have to buy it now suddenly, otherwise the promotion will disappear, if the creator practices such tactics, you may doubt how this plugin works, I’m fed up with such liars, put a real price on the website and stop lying to your customers

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  7. eaglecraz
    2.8y ago

    Has been great so far. Customers seem to like it.

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  8. Tobija
    3.2y ago

    The plugin does what it says, and it does it well. I’m really happy with the fact that I received a fair warning before the subscription auto renewed. It’s the reason to leave a rating here.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

11 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2025-11-21 CVE-2025-66064 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.12.20 Patched in 1.12.21
  2. 2025-11-18 CVE-2025-12484 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.12.19 Patched in 1.12.21
  3. 2025-06-19 CVE-2025-49997 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.12.18 Patched in 1.12.19
  4. 2025-03-11 CVE-2024-10107 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.12.16 Patched in 1.12.17
  5. 2024-08-22 CVE-2024-6887 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.12.16 Patched in 1.12.17
  6. 2024-06-22 CVE-2024-3963 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.12.13 Patched in 1.12.14
  7. 2024-05-10 CVE-2024-4745 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.12.4 Patched in 1.12.5
  8. 2024-04-22 CVE-2024-32827 Use of Less Trusted Source Affects <= 1.12.7 Patched in 1.12.11
  9. 2024-02-29 CVE-2024-1935 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.12.5 Patched in 1.12.7
  10. 2023-10-29 CVE-2023-5049 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.12.0 Patched in 1.12.2
  11. 2023-01-12 CVE-2023-0176 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.11.2 Patched in 1.11.3

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 8 languages, 0 at 90% or more

German 69%
Dutch 56%
Spanish (Spain) 26%
Ukrainian 11%
Czech 6%
Russian 6%
Spanish (Mexico) 5%
French (France) 4%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-28 30K+ → 20K+ down after 486 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-27 20K+ → 30K+ up after 751 days in tier
  3. 2023-02-07 10K+ → 20K+ up

Competes with

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