Need an advanced WordPress questionnaire builder that graphs submissions, displays statistics, and conditionally displays questions? Look no further!
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Looking for a WordPress questionnaire plugin? If you search the WordPress.org plugin directory, you’ll find a dozens of options. But with so many plugins, how do you choose the best one?
Today we are going to talk about the ultimate plugin for building questionnaires on your WordPress site. If you are on the hunt for features to take your questionnaires to the next level, then look no further. Formidable Forms is here!
Here’s the best part: the plugin we are highlighting today has a free questionnaire maker that you can use to easily build a questionnaire or even create polls in WordPress or other types of forms. In fact, this plugin can be used to create survey forms straight from your WordPress dashboard too.
In this blog post, we are going to run down the reasons why the Formidable drag and drop form builder is the ultimate WordPress questionnaire plugin for any task. Let’s get into it!
Questionnaire vs. survey: what's the difference?
Before we get into all the reasons why Formidable works great as a WordPress questionnaire plugin, let’s answer this age-old question. Is there a difference between a survey and a questionnaire?
Actually, the answer is yes!
A survey is about the content, method, collection, and analysis of data. A questionnaire is any written set of questions.
The main difference is that a survey uses mostly closed-ended questions that don't require typing. A questionnaire has more open-ended questions.
Here’s a follow-up question: can Formidable Forms handle both questionnaires and surveys? Sure can.
That’s the real beauty of Formidable. It’s a full-featured WordPress form maker and one of the best WordPress survey plugins.
That means it can help you create everything from eCommerce solutions to contact forms. If you build it using form fields, Formidable can handle it!
What's the difference between a quiz and a questionnaire?
So, since a questionnaire isn't a survey, how is it different from a quiz? It all comes down to the purpose behind the form.
A questionnaire is intended to gather data to analyze. On the other hand, a quiz is generally designed to test the quiz taker.
But either way, you're in luck. With Formidable, you can be a quiz and survey master too. Learn more about how to make a quiz in WordPress.
More than your average WordPress questionnaire plugin
So what makes Formidable Forms stand out? For starters, it has all the questionnaire form fields you’d ever need. These include Likert scales, multiple-choice, radio buttons, and every questionnaire field you can imagine.
But there is much more to a questionnaire than form fields. With Formidable’s visual form styler, you can make sure that your questionnaire looks exactly as you want. Match your website’s style or make each questionnaire form look unique.
You can even use Formidable to create advanced options like a modal survey (a survey that pops-up when you click a CTA button on a page). The advanced features of Formidable are great because they are accessible and user-friendly even for beginners.
Formidable even has several questionnaire templates to get you started fast!
Now that we’ve given you a broad overview, let’s take a look at some of the main features that make our WordPress questionnaire builder a great choice.
👉 Learn more: How to create a questionnaire in WordPress
Show a progress bar or root-line
What’s worse than questionnaires that seem to go on forever? One of our friends once started an online questionnaire for their bank and gave up on page sixteen! There may have only been seventeen pages, but they couldn't tell without a progress bar.
Increasing form response rates is simple. Let your users know the end is in sight, and your response rate will improve even on long forms.
Display only the questions you need
The shorter your form, the more responses you will get. While a questionnaire may not be short, use clever options to prevent it from being unnecessarily long. Since not every question applies to every user, define your user groups early in the form. Then use conditional logic to hide questions that do not apply.
For example, if you're asking about a recent hotel stay, you may have questions about the hotel childcare facilities and kids' activities. But what if the guest doesn't have children? A simple radio button at the start of the form can help.
Ask if the stay was for business, a couple's vacation, or a family getaway. Then set conditional logic on the questions related to kids' activities so they only display when "Family getaway" is selected. Utilize the users' precious attention span in this age of social media. You can get the questionnaire traffic stats via Google Analytics.
Skip pages with conditional logic
Sometimes you need to hide more than just one or two questions. This is where multi-page forms and skipping entire pages is useful. Group all the questions on specific pages, and use conditional branching to skip pages. As a result, your form will feel shorter, and more users will complete it.
Customize the results page
Show different content on the thank you page depending on the choices made in the survey. If you score your questionnaire, use conditional statements to display customized content based on the score.
Display questionnaire data visually
Questionnaires are all about collecting useful data. But what you do with that data is equally important. Displaying your data in an easy-to-read and eye-catching way is vital.
Statistics allow you to count the number of entries, show a total or average for numeric entries. Or display the maximum or minimum amounts entered. Customize the stats based on dates, the user viewing them, by maximum or minimum value, or even by a specific value. This allows you to easily generate different statistics for each user segment.
Graphing results can be done in much the same way. Choose a graph type that best fits the data, including line graphs, bar and column graphs, pie charts, and scatter graphs. Custom colors can really make your graphs stand out.
With Formidable, you’ll be able to display the results of a questionnaire anywhere you want. Show customers, create reports or add custom graphics to member profiles. The possibilities are truly endless.
WordPress questionnaire builder... and beyond!
Formidable is a forms plugin - so it’s more than a WordPress questionnaire creator. It's also a WordPress poll plugin that can handle surveys and even quizzes. If it’s a form that relies on asking your audience questions, there is no stopping Formidable.
What’s more, Formidable is a plugin that works directly on your site. So you’ll keep all your own data. That means whenever you publish a form in WordPress using Formidable, your form submissions will stay in your WordPress database. WordPress users love it!
And since your form responses go to your WordPress site, you can control the entire process. Ask for a questionnaire respondent’s email address and build your email list. Go one step further and integrate it with your favorite email provider.
You can even send respondents an email notification after they complete your questionnaire. Not only can you use a questionnaire to collect data, but you can use it as a powerful marketing tool as well! Formidable can be used to do almost anything, especially when combined with a good WordPress page builder.
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Can I get the member to save a questionnaire and come back to it multiple times before submitting?
Hi Gary,
Yes, logged-in members can save drafts and return to the questionnaire at a later date, or even multiple times before they finally submit.
I am trying to do a questionnaire with a log in feature that will allow them to save and continue later without losing data entered. Also don’t want there to be a link to return but the ability for them to log in and finish using their username and password. Will your plug in do this?
Yes! For sure. Logged in users can save drafts and come back later and it will be there waiting.
Hi,
Can it be used for designing clinical questionnaires for an online pharmacy? For instance, the customer picks the medicine for purchase, then by clicking an action button (Start Consultation) they get forwarded to a page containing a form where they are presented with a set of question, the answers which help the pharmacist to approve the supply request. Once they satisfactorily complete the form, the item will get added to the cart.
UK Meds website has a good example of this.
Many thanks,
Hi Babak,
Yes, this is absolutely possible. All you would need is a WordPress site and Formidable Forms (the least expensive paid plan would be enough).
You would set up a site with a front page with some text and a button that would take them to the form. On the form itself, you could automatically send the info the the pharmacist email address and the customer email address if desired.
There are a lot of ways to improve the setup, based on your exact needs. There’s no “online pharmacy” template, but this shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. Once you become a paid customer, you’ll have access to our support team. They will be able to give you all the guidance you need to finish the set up.
Hope that helps!
Hi there,
Would users be able to complete the same questionaire multiple times and see a list of their results when logged in?
Could completed/submitted questionaires be editable by the user?
Are they able to delete entries?
Is a PDF of the results able to be created?
Thanks
Jen
Hi Jen,
Yes on all counts.
For PDF integration, we recommend you look into the 3rd party E2PDF plugin.
I never really thought about the differences between quiz, questionnaire, and survey... but I suppose we've built all 3 in Formidable! Another I'd add to the list is a voting system. We've built some real-time event voting sites for people to "grade" a speaker/session and then a scoreboard to tally the results in real-time. Fun stuff!
Hi,
Can you insert video into the questions?
You can insert HTML into the field labels and we also have HTML fields, so this should be possible.
I want to ask 15 questions, each with 5 answers. Each of the 75 answers has a different score when selected to give a total at the end. Is this possible with this plug-in?
Also, would I be able to grant permission for a user to view the average results of a group of results, such as those of 10 people.
Would this plug-in allow users to complete the questions monthly and see a history of results?
Hi Adrian,
Yes, you should be able to do this with Formidable Forms. Depending on the details of your setup and use case, you may need an additional permissions plugin like MemberPress or members to manage who can see what, but generating the average should be possible.
That's pretty interesting. Is it possible, to use this plugin as kund of a service configurator? Approaching a matching product, by asking questions dynamically depending on the answers? And finally propose a solution.
Yes this is possible...We have one customer who used formidable forms to collect a wide range of information from a customer, then offer a specific recommendation based on the information. In this case it was specialty vitamins. As long as you can map out what results to show based on the info provided, it should be possible.