Need a WordPress poll plugin with formidable features? Create amazing WP polls in minutes, and generate reports and graphs that integrate with your forms and Views.
Online polls aren't new. There are hundreds of solutions to help you build an online poll. But what if you need your poll to do a bit more than average?
Formidable isn't your average WordPress poll plugin. And it isn't just an online form builder with some poll features added as an afterthought. Instead, Formidable is a comprehensive form and data management system that excels at collecting user responses.
The powerful features of Formidable can turbocharge your online polls. Improve user-experience, do more with your data, and even integrate with social media!
5 top reasons to use Formidable as a WordPress poll plugin
Today I want to highlight some innovative features that make Formidable the perfect choice for running an online poll.
- Let users manage their poll responses. If your users are logged in, add a hidden user id field. This allows you to show a user their own votes in a View and allow them to edit their answers.
- SMS Text Polls. The Twilio add-on lets users vote via SMS text! Read how to set up SMS text voting or find ideas on how to use SMS polls to engage your audience.
- Reports & graphs. Display poll results in real-time. The built-in graph features show up-to-date information every time the page loads. Now you can keep track of how votes are progressing with zero lag.
Read more: Build an online survey form with a WordPress survey plugin
- Integrate with 3rd-party apps. Share poll data with other online services and even social media. The Zapier add-on makes integration easy, with connections to over 750 different apps and services!
- Crazy simple setup. Long-time Formidable user or complete newbie, it doesn't matter. Formidable is easy to use and is backed by an amazing support team. You'll be amazed by how quickly and easily you build your online polls.
Want even more from a WordPress poll plugin?
As if that wasn't enough, Formidable has 3 more amazing features that you won't get in any stand-alone poll plugin.
- Tailor poll questions to your audience with smart conditional logic. Want different questions for different age groups? Ask the age at the start of your poll, and then use conditional logic to determine which questions appear.
- MailChimp integration allows you to add poll responders to your mailing list automatically.
- Unlike many online poll solutions, Formidable can be visually styled to match your existing website and branding. Make your poll look planned and professional, instead of just an afterthought.
Create your WP polls with the most powerful WordPress form builder anywhere and get all the benefits that come with it.
SMS Text Polls is one of the reasons I'm using Formidable. 😀 It's simply awesome! 😀
PS: all fonts after #4 below are bold. Something's not right. 😀
Glad to hear you love the SMS polls...and thanks for the tip on the bold issue. I have fixed that now.
What's missing is an easy way to display the winner or "Top 3" results of a poll.
There's custom code (below) however I've never got it to work and custom code isn't supported, let alone "easy".
https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/php-examples/#kb-get-the-most-selected-field-value
You could always create a View, limit it to showing 3 entries, and order it by number of votes...
How exactly do you order entries by 'number of votes'?
This isn't the first time someone has asked about this, support typically refers people to the fore-mentioned custom code or "#kb-get-the-winner" which no longer exists (presumably the same snippet renamed).
If support can at least verify that the custom code still works that would be of help.
If you open a ticket in our helpdesk, I'm sure one of our team will be able to assist with this.
https://formidableforms.com/new-topic/
Is there a setting where I could choose to allow only logged in respondents and only to allow them to vote once? I'm going to be doing a "Readers Choice" poll, and businesses can get testy if they think people are voting dozens of times.
Thanks!
Yep, this can be done.
Its a bit much to explain here - but if you open a ticket in the help desk we should be able to walk you through it.