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Poll Maker by AYS

Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls

4.4 out of 5 stars. 4.4 91 reviews

Poll Maker is a FREE WordPress poll plugin that will let you create customizable and professional online polls and voting for your WordPress website.

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What you get inside

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  • Poll Maker - front end poll preview gif

  • Poll Maker - front end poll preview

  • Poll Maker - front end poll preview

  • Poll Maker - dashboard polls list

  • Poll Maker - dashboard edit poll

  • Poll Maker - dashboard edit poll

  • Poll Maker - dashboard edit poll style

  • Poll Maker - dashboard poll results

About this plugin

WordPress Poll Plugin

WordPress Poll plugin is a powerful poll plugin for WordPress that helps you create online polls and voting forms in minutes.
With this online poll plugin, you can easily build interactive polls, collect feedback, and increase audience engagement directly on your WordPress website.

Our poll builder allows you to create polls in WordPress using multiple poll types, advanced settings, and flexible design options.
Whether you need a WordPress voting plugin for opinion polling, user interaction, or feedback collection, Poll Maker gives you all the tools to run interactive polls and manage online voting with ease.

WordPress Polling Plugin gives impressive tools to create powerful and simple polls. You have 5 poll types to choose from, advanced settings, dozens of style options included 7 pre-build themes, and many more functionalities a professional poll builder will wish for.
Looking for the best poll plugin for WordPress via which you can create a poll in minutes? You are in the right place!

Create and publish your first poll in 3 simple steps:

  • Click on the Add new button on the Polls page,
  • Choose the type, and fill out other necessary information such as a question, answers, etc.
  • Save it and copy the generated shortcode and insert it into any post or page to make your poll public.

Poll shortcode
[ays_poll id=’your_poll_id’]

Data is an essential part of any business process, don’t you agree? Data-oriented companies are the most successful ones nowadays. So, if you want to compete with them, you need to have this lead generator tool that offers responsive polls. You need to imply the “give and take” rule: provide interactive content to your audience and get new leads.
The benefits of receiving new leads are many:

  • Increase the traffic of your website
  • Use the plugin as an effective marketing tool and build your Social Media strategy around social voting, including email marketing, SMM marketing, and more.
  • Receive customer feedback, do market research, and track responses with live results.
  • Get customer insights and take action: create an opinion poll, know more about your customers’ habits, preferences, interests, and so on.

PRO | DEMO | DOCUMENTATION

WordPress Poll maker plugin features, advantages

Poll question

This online voting plugin comes with the default WordPress classic editor for adding and editing poll questions, making it easy to format your content. You can create customizable polls, including image polls, video polls, or audio polls, depending on your needs.
If you have CSS or HTML skills, you are free to write your own code and design your question the way you wish it to be. Moreover, you can insert a shortcode of any other plugin easily. This WordPress Vote plugin’s developers continually do their best to build the Best WordPress Poll Plugin ever. All you need is to grab the chance and give it a try!

Poll types

This WordPress Poll plugin allows you to make 7 types of online polls:

  • Choosing – You can add as many options for choosing as you want. There is also an option that allows users to add their custom option(Pro).
  • Rating – With this type, you can make voting forms with rating a single product. It allows you to choose the type of rating: with stars or with emojis. It depends on the subject you want to examine.
  • Voting – With this type, you can make voting forms with voting. Here are again two types: like/dislike or emojis. It is an easy way to understand users love your product or not.
  • Dropdown (Available only in Pro version) – You need to write the possible answers in the field of ‘Answers’, which are 2 by default. The participants need to choose one answer from a list of choices presented in a dropdown menu.
  • Range (Available only in Pro version) – It allows a participant to select answers in 1-100 range.
  • VS (versus) (Available only in Pro version) – This is the type of competition with two products or persons. There are awesome styles for making versus votes.
  • Text (Available only in Pro version) – Get the most detailed responses. Give poll participants the opportunity to provide full answers to your questions, using both Short Text answers and Paragraphs.

Poll Demos (Free)

Poll Demos (Pro)

Multivote functionality: As part of the online voting system, you can activate Multivote functionality. It allows your respondents to choose more than one answer to your question.
Multivote improves audience engagement and provides richer data for poll analytics, helping you better understand how users interact with your polls.

Notify admin by email

With our Vote plugin, you can be notified via email each time a vote is submitted. All you need is to enable the Results notification by email option from your form’s settings and enter your email address in the corresponding field. It allows you to be informed and doesn’t check your admin dashboard frequently.

Save your time, and in the meantime, be informed with our WordPress Voting Plugin!

Limit by User Roles

This feature enables user role based voting, allowing you to choose which WordPress user roles can access and participate in your poll. Only users with the selected user group can take it. Also, you can create a logged-in users only poll by restricting participation exclusively to authenticated users, ensuring controlled and secure voting.

Limit to vote only once

Want to have accurate results? This online voting tool give it to you! To ensure fair participation, the plugin supports one vote per user and displays real-time results, allowing both you and your audience to instantly see how responses evolve.
By activating the Maximum number of attempts per user option, you will not receive multiple votes from the same person. The plugin offers 4 detection methods: By IP address, by WP user ID, by Cookie, by Cookie and IP.

Password Protected Poll

Create a password-protected poll to ensure privacy, limit participation to only authorized individuals, and safeguard sensitive information or opinions shared during the polling process. This security feature can be useful when the poll involves confidential information, or when the poll is intended for a specific audience or group of individuals. The given feature is available in the premium version of the plugin.

Information form with custom fields

Want to get more info from your website visitors with the WP poll plugin? It is possible with the help of our plugin. Please note that the functionality is available only in the Pro version. You can add information form to your poll. After or before taking the choice, the user must fill in his information like name, email, phone, or any other information you have added into the form. So it is a handy tool for collecting user’s data and using it for your marketing.

Anonymous polls

Anonymous polls are essential for trustworthy opinion polling, especially when you want honest feedback without linking responses to individual participants. This option is ideal for free online polls where privacy encourages higher user interaction and more accurate answers. After activating the allow anonymity option, WP User and the User IP will not be collected in your database. Furthermore, anonymous feedback can give valuable and more accurate answers. You can still present the outcomes as visual poll results, while fully protecting participant rights under GDPR. Please note that the option is available on the Premium version.

Templates and style options

This easy poll plugin helps you create engaging interactive content using 7 ready-made templates (4 of them available only in the Pro version). There are 30+ style options for customizing the design. You can customize colors, images, borders, backgrounds.
As a lightweight poll plugin, it lets you choose a template and customize it using flexible style options in our free online poll maker – no coding required.

Additional functionalities(Shortcodes)

This plugin offers several additional functionalities in the form of shortcodes. The shortcode for all polls will print all published polls after each other. So your website visitors can participate in all your polls simultaneously. The Shortcode result by ID will display only the result page of the particular form. Assume that it is already over and you want to show the results to your participants. In that case, this shortcode will be of help to you. You can choose to show the results via interactive charts: Bar chart, Pie chart, or Column chart. Other two awesome shortcodes that the plugin offers are the Categories shortcode and Global leaderboard. The latter one prints the list of top users who have voted your forms.

Voting Plugin

Use a voting form to engage your audience, gather information, and improve your company. Gain insights into topics like upcoming elections or office leadership while promoting democracy. With our image poll WordPress plugin, run photo contests and gather user feedback to enhance your features. Make interesting poll questions, diversify answer options, and choose the best WordPress voting plugin for optimal engagement.

Features

  • Poll types – choosing, rating, voting
  • Unlimited polls
  • Unlimited answers
  • Unlimited results
  • Different icons
  • Categorize polls
  • Category-multiple view
  • Reports in dashboard
  • Social share buttons
  • Notification by e-mail
  • Limit users rate once
  • Only for logged in users option
  • Limit by user roles
  • Style settings (10+)
  • Two themes
  • Live preview
  • Schedule Poll

PRO Features

  • Includes ALL Free version Features and
  • VS type of poll (versus)
  • User information form
  • Ability to add custom option
  • Extra 4 themes
  • Results with charts
  • Export results to CSV
  • Custom Form Fields
  • Text instead of results
  • Vote reason option
  • Voted user location
  • Import/Export polls
  • Anonymous poll
  • Allow multivote
  • Password protected poll
  • Vote session
  • Send mail to user
  • Messages based on answers
  • Display category shortcode
  • User History shortcode
  • Leaderboard
  • Poll creation by user
  • Summary emails
  • Copy protection
  • Multilingual polls
  • Text to speech
  • More on the way …

Connect with your Favorite Tools (PRO)

  • MailChimp integration
  • Campaign Monitor integration
  • Zapier integration
  • ActiveCampaign integration
  • Slack integration
  • SendGrid integration
  • GamiPress integration
  • Mad Mimi integration
  • ConvertKit integration
  • GetResponse integration
  • Google sheet integration
  • Klaviyo integration
  • MyCred integration
  • Aweber integration
  • Mailpoet integration

Easy to Use

If you want to create powerful and simple polls, it is essential to have a tool like this Poll & Vote Plugin at your disposal.

Searching on how to make a poll on your website? Feel free to check out the following User Manual.

This WordPress easy polling plugin also has a widget possibility, and while installing the plugin, the widget is also installed. Many websites are most likely to place the form on the sidebar keeping it dominant. So your clients do not need to waste their time participating in some elections; they just do it on the spot with one click, which provides a huge amount of results.

Don’t forget that, in case of any problems or upcoming questions, please contact us via this FREE SUPPORT FORUM.

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  • Random Posts and Pages Widget for creating internal links and encouraging visitor engagement on your website.
  • Photo Gallery for displaying responsive image gallery with awesome layout options.

Questions

1. How can I add a Poll in my site?

At first, you need to install the plugin and create a Poll in it. After it, a shortcode will be
generated which you can add wherever you want in your site. And then you can see your Poll.

2. Are there any limitations in the way of making questions for Poll.

The plugin has no limitation in the way of making questions Poll. You can make a Poll
yourself and can add as many Polls as you want. And, you can construct any kind of Poll
question such as video, photo, audio, etc. And you can insert whatever you want with shortcodes.

3. Can I add the same poll in different pages?

Yes, of course. You can add the same Poll at the same time in different pages of the site. You
can also add the Polls in widgets on sidebar. And this does not interrupt the traffic of your site.

4. How to check the results in Poll?

After the installation of the plugin you will need to open settings (“Poll maker” in dashboard)
and entering “Results” section you will find the results of your Poll with the help of filters.

5. How many types are there in the Poll?

Our Poll has the following types: voting, choosing, rating (rating-emoji, rating-stars)

6. What shall I do in case of any problem?

Our support team works very hard to provide answers within 24 hours. We do our best for
giving you thorough answers. For the future, we also plan many new and fantastic features and,
of course, new updates.

7. How can I add a poll on the widget?

There are two Polls set by default in our plugin. For adding a Poll in widget you need to
follow the instruction: Go to the widget section and if you have a Poll in our plugin, you will see
there our widget. Then put it on the sidebar and select the Poll and a width for it. Afterward, we
can say that it is a widget poll.

8. Where can I find a demo for this WordPress Poll Plugin?

Check out the WordPress Poll plugin Free Demo page to find all the advanced features the plugin offers.

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