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Games Help: Remove High Scores

From the Games Manager in the Host Control Panel, scroll down to the bottom of the page. In the Remove Scores / Contact Winner(s) section, check the “Remove Score” box next to the score or scores that you want to remove. When you are done, click the “Save Changes” button to save your changes and remove the score(s) Please note that removing a high score will not prevent a user from participating in your Web Baby Shower. If you have strong reason to believe that someone should be banned from th...

Games Help: Playing Quiz Style Games

For each matching or multiple choice virtual baby shower game, Web Baby Shower has a database of about 30 – 60 questions for each game. Each time you or your guests play a game, you will be given a random selection of 10 questions to answer. This is intended to keep the games fresh and inviting to play. At this time the following games are offered: - Baby Animals (matching) - Famous Mothers (matching) - Famous Fathers (matching) - Nursery Rhymes (trivia/multiple choice) - A Baby In...

Games Help: Edit The Introduction on the Games Page

- In the “Games Intro” text editor, you can compose your own introduction to the games, add any rules or challenges to the games, or even offer a prize to the winners. - When you are done, click the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page. You can return to the Games Manager at any time to change the Games page introduction.

Games Help: Choose Quiz Style Baby Shower Games To Play

- From the Host Control Panel Dashboard or menu, choose “Games Manager”. - In the “Games Settings” metabox, choose “On” to turn a game on, or “Off” to leave it off. - You can play all of the games at once, or play them one at a time, or a couple at time, depending on how you and your guests plan to use your Web Baby Shower. - The Baby Songs game has the additional option to display everyone’s song list on the High Scores page. While the game is being played, you may want to leave this o...

Games Help: "Correct" or Edit Baby Songs Submissions

If you have chosen to play the Baby Songs open-ended quiz-style baby shower game, you can confirm or correct the scores and/or edit the song lists your guests submit when they play the game. On the Games Manager in the Host Control Panel, scroll down to the “Remove Scores / Contact Winner(s)” box near the bottom of the page. Locate the “Baby Songs” section. When a guest plays the Baby Songs game, each Baby Songs entry is scored with two points for the song title and 1 point for providing a re...

Universal Feature: Offering Prizes

It is entirely up to the host to decide to award, and distribute, a prize or prizes for winning the Birthday Bets game, the Baby Photos Game or any of the Quiz Style Games. You may describe any prize in the “Intro” area in the Birthday Bets Manager, Quiz Style Games Manager and/or the Baby Photos Game Manager -- or on your home page, Guest Book, etc. Most online hosts tend to go with “The Knowledge and Satisfaction That You Know You Won” but you can get as elaborate as you like.

Universal Feature: Contacting Game Winners

If you have decided to award prizes for the games your guests have played on your Web Baby Shower, you can find their contact information as follows. Please note that Web Baby Shower does not require guests to provide an email address, in general, so you may have to get creative if a guest does not provide any contact information (or you can disqualify them for that reason and give the prize to the next runner up ... totally up to you!) Quiz Style Games: If your guests have provided an email ad...

Photos Feature: How Titles and Captions Are Used

While you are in your Photo Album Gallery, you can add, remove and update captions and titles for each and every photo. Here is how the titles and captions will be used in your Photo Album: - Titles are actually not used either on the Photo Album page or in the gallery light box. They are for reference only. - Captions, if they exist, will appear on your Photo Album page AND in the gallery light box overlay - Please keep your captions short & sweet. Long captions will overflow and bloc...

Baby Photos Game: Selecting A Winner

Winning The Game If you’re really lucky, only one person will guess everything right! But, since this game is somewhat open-ended, you can decide how to “judge” the guesses your guests have made or declare more than one winner. If you're really stumped, flip a coin, pull a name out of the hat ... it's all just for the fun of it, right? You can announce the winner by replacing the instructions at the top of the page, in the comments, or even on the Games Page. If your guests have provide...

Baby Photos Game: Removing Photos

Once you have added photos to your Baby Photo Game Gallery, you can remove the gallery from your Baby Photo Game page by checking the “Remove Gallery” checkbox below the preview of your gallery photos, and then clicking the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page to save the changes. Please note the Remove checkbox is not available or visible if you have not yet added any photos to your Gallery. To remove individual photos from your Gallery, please click “Upload / Edit / Manage Photos” ...

Baby Photos Game: Removing Guesses or Comments

Your guests’ guesses and comments will appear in the Host Control Panel Comments Manager. If, for any reason, you need to remove or edit a guest’s guess or comment, please use the Comments Manager. If you would like to view the comments for just the Baby Photo Game, scroll down to the first comment from the Baby Photos Game page. Then, click on the grey bubble in the right column that shows the total number of comments for that page. Please note that removing a comment will not prevent a user...

Baby Photos Game: How to Set Up the Baby Photos Game

Baby Photos Game Set Up Please note that the Baby Photos Game is not automatically turned on for you when your Web Baby Shower is set up. Because not everyone has enough baby photos to play this game, we leave it "off" by default. If you would like to play the Baby Photos Guessing Game Contest, then you can turn the page on and personalize it as follows: - Log into your Web Baby Shower Host Control Panel Dashboard - Choose “Baby Photos Game” from the Dashboard or drop-down menu - Turn...

Baby Photos Game: Game Description

Description: In this game, you upload baby photos of the expecting / adopting parents, grandparents, and/or any siblings and ask your guests to guess which relative goes with which baby photo.

Baby Photos Game: Add More Photos

When you return to the Baby Photos Game Manager to add more photos, please be aware that the “Media Library” tab in the Gallery Editor will show ALL of the photos you have uploaded to your Web Baby Shower that are NOT already in use in your Baby Photos Game Gallery. If you do not wish to use any of the photos in the Media Library, then click “Upload” or “Add to Gallery” and proceed with uploading photos to your Baby Photos Game Gallery.