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Polls are very useful way to get in touch with your readers. Polls can be used to get your readers’ opinion and even new article idea.
There are various websites that let you setup your own polls. Once you insert the given code, you will be able to start using the polls immediately. PollDaddy is one of the great free online polls and serveys.
However, if you are a person who not really familiar with HTML, PHP, CSS or JavaScript, inserting these codes will probably takes the whole day. Furthermore, you probably don’t have all the features for a free account,or you probably just want a really simple rating feature.
If you are a Wordpress user, then you are lucky. There are a lot of useful Wordpress poll and rating plugins where you can download and use freely. Here, we share 9 useful Wordpress poll and rating plugins with our readers.
1. JR_Ratings
This plugin allows you to enable a rating form where users can rate a particular post. After you upload and activate the plugin, you will be able to edit the JR_Ratings plugin’s settings in the Administration panel.
2. WP-Polls
Adds 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.
3. GD Star Rating
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin.
4. Democracy AJAX Poll
Democracy adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog. It grew out of frustration with the only other WordPress polling option, WP-poll.
5. WP Easy Polls
WP Easy Polls is a quick and easy way to create money making polls for affiliate marketers. You can create polls within minutes and you can easily theme your polls with different designs.
6. SodaHead
With SodaHead, you can create a free poll for your blog with images and a fully customized look in seconds using the best poll widget available.
7. PollDaddy Polls & Ratings
The PollDaddy Polls and Ratings plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls, and view all results for your polls as they come in.
8. Star Rating for Reviews
Star Rating for Reviews is a simple WordPress plugin that inserts pretty rating stars based on the score you assign using intuitive, inline [rating:] tags. It can also calculate and output overall ratings for you based on all previous scores you have assigned.
9. Vote-The-Post
Vote-The-Post plugin is a professionally-designed computer application for WordPress, which allows users to vote on the individual posts on your blog or website.
If you like our article about Wordpress plugins, then we are sure you want to look into our previous articles about Facebook plugins for Wordpress, Anti-spam plugins and also useful contact form plugins for Wordpress. These plugins will help you to extend your Wordpress functionality and push it beyond a simple blogging platform!
These are good plugins
Thanks.
It would be more presentable and appealing if you add the snap shoots of each plugins. Anyways gr8 list.
Haha, will try to do that in future post. Just feel that my readers don’t really need the snapshot of the plugin settings/configuration page.
Yeah. Some snapshots would be interesting. Anyway the points elaborations are good enough. Worth to try all the poll and rating plugins. Poll Daddy and GD Star Rating is the best i think. Just my opinion. Thanks!
Hehe, seems everyone suggest us to add snapshots.
Anyway, this is a good suggestion and we will try to include snapshots for our future posts.
I love wordpress site they afast and easy to put a site up with and look great.
I’ve implement rating and polls on my site:
http://windows7design.com/
Rating system is ok but wp-polls doesn’t work good with super cache plugin.
Hi Peter,
Nice website you have. To be honest, i never try this plugin together with WP Super Cache. But i believe there must solutions out there to help you on this issue?
I’ve used two of the plugins listed above, but I’ve Sodahead to be the most comprehensive —and the most annoying in terms of numerous emails, etc after installing the plugin.
Hi Flippa,
Maybe you should try other plugins? Try installing different plugins and look at their features. Probably you could setup a subdomain if you don’t want to try on your main blog.
Interesting list. I’ll have to put up some test blogs to play around. I needed to find something to spend more time on
Hi Robert,
I hope these plugins will help you in setting up the polls.
Great list, im gonna check these out.
I’m currently using Wp-Polls, and i’m still looking for best plugin to allow users to rate my posts.
Hi Lucian,
I would recommend GD Star Rating if you want readers to rate your posts.