WP-Polls

What the author says it does

WP-Polls adds a poll to your site: a question, its answers, and a result bar that replaces the voting form once a visitor has voted, without a page reload. A poll can go in a post with a shortcode or a block, in a sidebar with the widget, or anywhere in your theme with a template tag.

A poll can accept one answer or several, close on a date you set, and be shown as a form or as its result. The markup of every part of it is a template you can edit, and the bars are styled with CSS custom properties your theme can override.

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I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Usage

Showing A Poll From A Theme

<?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 show random poll, use <?php get_poll(-2); ?>
• To embed a specific poll in your post, use [poll id="2"] where 2 is your poll id.
• To embed a random poll in your post, use [poll id="-2"]
• To embed a specific poll’s result in your post, use [poll id="2" type="result"] where 2 is your poll id.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

Latest changelog entry

3.0.2

• NEW: A wp_polls_needs_assets filter, for code that renders a poll where WP-Polls cannot see it coming. 3.0.1 loads the stylesheet and the voting script only where it finds the poll widget, a [poll] or [page_polls] shortcode, one of the two blocks, or a poll rendering during the page itself. Poll markup fetched over admin-ajax.php or the REST API into a page that shows no poll of its own is none of those, and got neither file — leaving the poll unable to vote, under a “Loading …” that never cleared. Returning true from the filter is how such a page asks for them.