About this plugin
Entry Judging for Gravity Forms turns any Gravity Forms form into a fair, blind judging workflow. Designate judges, hide the fields that reveal who submitted an entry, and let each judge score independently. Results stay locked until every judge has finished, so no one is influenced by scores already in.
Built for photo contests, scholarships, awards, grant panels, hiring shortlists, and any panel review that needs to stay impartial.
Everything in this plugin is free and fully functional. There is no trial, no locked feature, and no license key.
Core features
- Blind review — Name, Email, Phone, Address, and Website fields are hidden from judges by default, so scoring stays anonymous. File-upload filenames are masked too. You choose exactly which fields judges see.
- Per-judge scoring — each judge saves their own numeric score per entry; scores never overwrite one another. Scores autosave as they are entered.
- Judge roles — designate any WordPress user as a judge without giving them administrator access. Administrators always have access.
- Form picker — choose which Gravity Forms form is being judged.
- Configurable score scale — set the minimum and maximum of the numeric scale (for example 1–10).
- Field selection — pick which fields judges see, so a long form can show only the few that need evaluation.
- Reveal lock — results stay hidden until every assigned judge has scored every entry, which keeps judging fair.
- Ranked results — entries are ranked by average score, with a per-judge score breakdown, and a completion tracker showing which judges are done.
- Admin override — force-reveal results early (and re-lock them) when a judge cannot finish.
- Close entries for judging — freeze the entry pool once judging is under way, so a late submission can’t silently re-lock a finished round.
- Progress at a glance — a live “X of Y scored” indicator and progress bar, a “Show unscored only” filter, and a “Jump to next unscored” button make large entry pools fast to work through.
- One entry at a time — an optional card-stack view shows a single entry at once with Prev/Next navigation and keyboard shortcuts (arrows to move, Enter to score and advance), for judges who prefer to focus on one submission at a time.
- Recusal for conflicts of interest — a judge who knows an entrant can mark “Abstain (conflict of interest)” instead of guessing or blocking the reveal. It counts as complete for that judge and is excluded from that entry’s average.
- Reset for a new contest — reuse the same form next round: save the current rankings to the Archive screen with one click, then clear every judge’s scores so the form is ready to judge again. Entries themselves are never touched.
Requires Gravity Forms
This plugin extends Gravity Forms and requires it to be installed and active. Gravity Forms is a commercial plugin and is not included.
Premium add-on
A separate premium add-on, Entry Judging for Gravity Forms Pro, adds capabilities for larger contests: judging multiple forms with a per-judge form switcher, a weighted rubric builder, qualitative per-entry feedback, automated judge reminder emails, and CSV/XLSX results export. The Pro add-on is a separate product and is not required — the plugin here is complete on its own. com/entry-judging-for-gravity-forms/