Wordpress Plugin:Polls ver2.31

Nov 23rd 08 Posted by vinson in Plugins

Do you have any questions in mind that you couldn’t answer by yourself? Or you’re not sure on what it supposed to be? Why don’t you add a poll in your blog for you to know what your visitors think so that you could decide. Here is plug in that surely be a great help to your problems or either you want to ask suggestions and comments to your visitors.

Add an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can easily include a poll into your WordPress’s blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers.

Installation

Download the plugin nofollow-free
Open wp-content/plugins Folder
copy the entire directory in your plugins directory at your wordpress blog (/wp-content/plugins)
activate the WP-Polls Plugin at your Plugins admin page

Usage:

Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/sidebar.php
Add:

<?php if (function_exists(‘vote_poll’) && !in_pollarchive()): ?>
<li>
<h2>Polls</h2>
<ul>
<li><?php get_poll();?></li>
</ul>
<?php display_polls_archive_link(); ?>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>
To show specific poll, use <?php get_poll(2);?> where 2 is your poll id.To embed a specific poll in your post, use [poll id="2"] where 2 is your poll id.To embed a specific poll’s result in your post, use [poll id="2" type="result"] where 2 is your poll id.
Scroll down for instructions on how to create a Polls Archive.

General Usage (With Widget)

Activate WP-Polls Widget Plugin.

Go to ‘WP-Admin -> Design -> Widgets‘.
You can add the Polls Widget by clicking on the ‘Add’ link besides it.
After adding, you can configure the Polls Widget by clicking on the ‘Edit’ link besides it.
Click ‘Save Changes’.
Scroll down for instructions on how to create a Polls Archive.

Polls Archive

Go to ‘WP-Admin -> Write -> Page‘.
Type any title you like in the post’s title area.
After typing the title, WordPress will generate the permalink to the page. You will see an ‘Edit’ link just beside the permalink.
Click ‘Edit’ and type in ‘pollsarchive‘ in the text field (without the quotes) and click ‘Save’.
Type ‘[page_polls]‘ in the post’s content area (without the quotes).
Click ‘Publish’.
If you ARE NOT using nice permalinks, you need to go to ‘WP-Admin -> Polls -> Poll Option’ and under ‘Poll Archive -> Polls Archive URL‘, you need to fill in the URL to the Polls Archive Page you created above.