{"id":3654,"date":"2014-07-29T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2014-07-29T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T18:19:34","slug":"un-contest-rafflecopter-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Un-Contest &#8211; or Rafflecopter Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Enter the &#8216;Un-Contest&#8217; ahead of the Real Contest Giveaway<\/h2>\n<p>So&#8230; I have a really nice Giveaway Contest planned (I think you will like the prizes) &#8230; and I plan to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafflecopter <\/a>to help with collecting and sorting the entries.<a href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/files\/2014\/07\/Rafflecopter.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3655\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/files\/2014\/07\/Rafflecopter.png\" alt=\"Rafflecopter\" width=\"277\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/\/sites\/53\/2014\/07\/Rafflecopter.png 277w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/\/sites\/53\/2014\/07\/Rafflecopter-260x76.png 260w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/\/sites\/53\/2014\/07\/Rafflecopter-160x46.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only Rafflecopter appears not to be working correctly for my blog. Who would think that something designed to be simple is proving to be so difficult! Once you decide to have a contest, you plug in your prize, how you want your entries to be included, click on a little button and &#8216;Voila!&#8217; a link that you paste into your post appears. Pasting this link is supposed to give you a little contest box, but instead, mine is just posting as a link to another page. To me, that sort of defeats the purpose of having a widget on your page and makes it a little more time consuming way to enter. I have shared a large number of emails back and forth with the Rafflecopter Support Team.<\/p>\n<p>So I am having an Un-Contest. Yes, a Contest that isn&#8217;t really a contest. I am having to set up this un-contest in order to paste the link for the Rafflecopter Widget into a real post so that their wonderful tech support group can figure out why the Widget doesn&#8217;t seem to want to work in the REAL Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Accoding to Rafflecopter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As always we are obsessed with ensuring Rafflecopter is delightfully simple, but doesn&#8217;t cramp your style. Get creative! Rafflecopter can handle whatever ideas you dream up and it&#8217;s as simple as copy\/paste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, according to one of the rave reviews:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #262a2c\">Rafflecopter is a really brilliant addition to the online marketer&#8217;s toolset. It&#8217;s a simple widget that does great things\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit;color: #262a2c\">\u2026<\/span><span style=\"color: #262a2c\">\u00a0after all, it&#8217;s all about the customer experience\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come on Rafflecopter! Let&#8217;s get this thing sorted!<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to enter the Un-contest (which starts at noon Pacific Time), I promise to include your entries into the REAL Contest which should be up and running in a day or two if we can solve my Rafflecopter Woes.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link\/widget for the Un-contest:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"rc-73d1ec492\" class=\"rafl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/73d1ec492\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">a Rafflecopter giveaway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whoops! It seems to be doing the same thing!<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions for help with this, please feel free to leave a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enter the &#8216;Un-Contest&#8217; ahead of the Real Contest Giveaway So&#8230; I have a really nice Giveaway Contest planned (I think you will like the prizes)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[420,445],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Un-Contest - or Rafflecopter Woes - Carolina Travel Girl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For a chance to win in the real contest, you can enter my UnContest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Un-Contest - or Rafflecopter Woes - Carolina Travel Girl\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"For a chance to win in the real contest, you can enter my UnContest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/53\/\/sites\/53\/2014\/07\/Rafflecopter.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@miffSC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@miffsc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carolina Travel Girl\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/\",\"name\":\"The Un-Contest - or Rafflecopter Woes - Carolina Travel Girl\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-29T18:04:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-29T18:19:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/#\/schema\/person\/6cd5fc32f14160f755a94063669b06cb\"},\"description\":\"For a chance to win in the real contest, you can enter my UnContest\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/07\/29\/un-contest-rafflecopter-woes\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Un-Contest &#8211; 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