Creating a PollDaddy Poll on Your WordPress Website or Blog

If you want to quiz or poll your readers with a customizable, embeddable poll, the PollDaddy feature baked into the WordPress editor makes it really easy. (Requires the PollDaddy Plugin.) This short video talks you through the process of putting a poll together and checking up on the results.

Creating a PollDaddy Poll

Instructions

Open up a new post in your blog (you can also start by going to Polls > Add New)
Look to the top of the editor window, on the Upload/Insert line and look for the circle icon which is the Poll Daddy icon. Click on that link.
Choose any existing poll or, as we will do here, click on Add New
Enter in your question
Enter in your answers – you can have as many answers as you like – just add and delete the boxes for answers.
Optionally you can choose multiple choice which means users could pick more than one answer
Another option is to randomize the answers. Survey research shows that the first answer always pulls more answers – so rotation avoids that bias
You can even choose to allow to let users enter the own answer instead of your fixed responses
Choose your design – pick the best option to match your theme
Select if or how the visitors can see the survey results – not at all, just percentages or the actual vote count
Select how you try and limit double-dippers, those who try and stuff the ballots with multiple votes
Save Your Poll

To view poll results

Select Polls from the left menu
Select Edit
Select the particular poll you want to review
Here you can look at the results
From here you can also preview, edit or delete the poll and even get HTML code that you can place on any website and feed answers from that site directly into your poll

Wrap-Up

See my Using WordPress series for more tutorials on how to use WordPress!

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