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Quick and Easy Polls For WordPress

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Polls or surveys are a great way to capture information about your site visitors likes,dislikes or to find out a bit more about them. All in all they can be a great marketing tool. Typically when I speak to people they are put off by adding this level of functionality to their website or blog. Many think it is to complicated or costly and they do not have the technical skills required

Thankfully if you run a WordPress blog it really is a piece of cake to setup an online poll. NB If you are a WordPress.com user then polls are already included in your installation

Requirements for adding Polls

For those of you running a self hosted WordPress Blog then here is what you need to do:

  • Sign-up for a Polldaddy account, its free
  • Download the Polldaddy plugin for WordPress
  • Install the plugin into your WordPress installation
  • Configure your plugin by entering your PollDaddy username and password which you set when you signed up for the service.
Create a Poll

Right, cool that's the hard bit done. If all is installed correctly then you should see a Polls Menu on the left side of the screen. This is where you can add new polls, edit existing polls or create custom styles.

To add a new Poll simply click "add new" and enter in the details as required. If you need more options just click the "add more button" or if you need to delete options then simply click the "X". The Polldaddy plugin comes with a number of off the shelf poll styles, pick the style that you want or alternatively if you are feeling creative then you can create your own style to suit the look and feel of your website.

The Polls you created can be inserted into either posts or pages and both follow the same format.

Insert a Poll into a Post or Page

To put a poll into your post or page simply open the page/post editor and you will in the upload/insert menu above the editor an "Add Poll" button (its the round grey ball!)

Here you can select the poll you want, edit it, view results, delete it or preview it. To insert the poll simply click the "Send to Editor" link and that will insert the poll into your post/page. Simple!

That's a quick and easy of adding polls to your WordPress site, its easy enough for pretty much anyone to do as it does not require any coding experience and it is a great way of interacting with your readers or subscribers.


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