Simple Giveaways – Grow your business, email lists and traffic with contests

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” 2.49.0 – 2026-01-15 =
* New: Webhooks Integration
* Update: Licensing software
* [Premium] New: Brevo Integration
* [Premium] Fix: Elementor integration.

2.48.2 – 2025-03-20

  • Fix: Security fixes
  • Admin fixes: editing the giveaway would, when changing tabs, would initialize new scripts.

2.48.1 – 2024-03-15

  • Fix: Security fix

2.48.0- 2024-01-20

  • New: Prize Threshold – award prizes to subscribers when they reach a certain entry amount.
  • Update: Fixing Match Captcha integration where warnings were thrown regarding $_SESSION.
  • Fixes: various fixes around different warnings & notices.
  • Fix: Admin notice on new version shows only on pages related to Simple Giveaways

2.47.1- 2023-11-11

  • Fixed security issue
  • [Premium] Elementor fixes – Giveaway widgets weren’t styled correctly

2.47.0- 2023-10-05

  • New Giveaway type: Award users on the site.
  • Update: Twitter renamed to X
  • [Premium]: GamiPress Integration – award points/badges when users win a giveaway
  • Licensing Software updated
  • Various fixes

2.46.1 – 2023-07-27

  • Security fixes

2.46.0 – 2023-07-05

  • Fix: Blocks were not rendering correctly on newer Block Editor versions.
  • Fix: Shortcodes without giveaway IDs or wrong IDs won’t trigger errors anymore.
  • Giveaway Archive shortcode addition: rules=0 hides rules on Giveaways, category=category-name shows only giveaways from a certain category, status=active shows only active giveaways.
  • [Premium] Elementor Giveaway element now can hide rules
  • [Premium] Fix: Elementor Countdown element could trigger errors if no giveaway is selected
  • [Business] WooCommerce: New WooCommerce Setting. If a product is bought through an order, it’ll complete the action if such action exists in a giveaway where the billing email is also a subscriber
  • [Business] WooCommerce: New WooCommerce Setting. Allows redirecting users to the giveaway page if a product is connected to it after a purchase.

2.45.1 – 2023-03-18

  • Fix: XSS was possible on some form, prize and sharing method fields, if entered by the admin or editors.

2.45.0 – 2023-03-11

  • New: Unsubscribe Link – Subscribers, if they want, can unsubscribe from giveaway emails they didn’t request by themselves
  • New: Visited From – You can now view where your subscribers came from when they subscribed (if the browser provides such information)
  • Improvement: If there are prizes to award to winners and winners haven’t been awarded yet, an alert will show before notifying winners
  • Fix: Sometimes, there were some errors getting a giveaway object. This will now return to false if not possible without any errors.
  • Fix: Code Editor when editing a Giveaway is now initialized when clicking the tab. Before, until clicked on the editor, it would hide the code.
  • Fix: [Premium] Fixed WPForms Integration code to work on PHP 5.6.
  • Update: Freemius

2.44.0 – 2022-10-03

  • New: Giveaway Scripts – Add scripts for specific giveaway.
  • New: [Premium] WPForms Integration
  • New: [Business] WooCommerce Variations can be used to specifically define which giveaway and how much points
  • Fix: Registration Action did not allow previously logged-in users to complete the action.

2.43.0 – 2022-06-13

  • Fix: Fixing the warning when trying to complete an action.
  • New: Form Field Type – Image. Users can now fill a field and upload an image if needed.

2.42.1 – 2022-03-12

  • Fix: a warning was shown when trying to show a complete button text.
  • Update: Licensing software.

2.42.0 – 2022-02-20

  • Adding Entries to CSV Export
  • Fix for deprecated privacy policy content hook
  • Extra Actions Complete Button text is editable
  • New Extra Actions category “Newsletter”
  • [Premium] Mailerlite Extra Action – Award points if they signed up to your Mailerlite list.

2.41.1 – 2022-02-05

  • Tested for 5.9.0
  • [Pro] Fix small error on specific mandatory actions.

2.41.0 – 2022-01-08

  • New: Settings Pages slightly redesigned.
  • New: Allowed Email Domains – Allow only subscribers with such email domains.
  • New: Disallowed Email Domains – Disallow subscribers with such email domains.
  • New: [Premium] Specific Mandatory Actions – lock actions until other specific ones are completed.
  • New: [Business] WooCommerce Restricted Giveaways – Restrict Giveaways to customers who purchased one of selected products.

2.40.1 – 2021-11-30

  • Fix: Countdown labels were not translatable from Countdown scripts

2.40.0 – 2021-11-19

  • New: Giveaway Option to show Prize Instructions to the Winners
  • New: GamiPress Integration
  • New: Disable Emails Setting
  • New: Integrations have categories
  • New: [Business] GiveWP: Award users for donations.

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Author
Igor Benic
Version:
2.49.0
Last Updated
January 15, 2026
Active Installs
500
Requires
WordPress 4.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 6.9.0

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