Adding a great polling widget to your WordPress blog
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Hey – this will be the third and last time I post about this widget.
I think it’s great, you guys will do. It’s free, customizable, and you get traffic from SodaHead’s community site if you want as well (you can choose to make it private if you want).
Check it out: SodaHead’s WordPress Poll Widget”
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If it uses flash or javascript, which it appears like it does, it cannot be used here at wordpress.com since flash, javascript and iframes are stripped out due to security concerns.
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I’d like to add some polls to my blog but I just can’t do it, I tried the lucky poll link and even found an HTML poll (that’s it’s actual name) but when I cut and paste into a text widget, all I get is text, the buttons are missing (so obviously it’s not much of a poll).
Any ideas what I’m doing wrong and more importantly how I should fix it? -
Take a look at this site. Timethief has some good information on integrating polls into wordpress.com.
http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/category/blogging-polls/
Actually, you might bookmark the site, she has a bunch of very useful information that supplements the information here in the FAQ’s.
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thanks TSP, in the end I found I couldn’t get a poll to run in HTML in a text widget but I posted a link to a snap poll which is almost as good.
They aren’t the prettiest polls around but they work so that’s the main thing. -
You would most likely be able to have all sorts of polls in a post if you use Vod:Pod’s embed button. You would also (most likely) be able to have the poll in a VodPod widget – one that works. Finally there is a slim chance that you can find an embed-able poll that could go into a text widget. But that will be difficult – I just tested the HTML poll and did not have any luck.
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PS: I tested the HTML poll with Vod:Pod. Some VodPod embeds can go into a standard text widget. That’s what I meant to say.
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Well, I’m not having much success with embedding polls via Vod:Pod, I must admit. I have tested 4 different systems so far and they fail…
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no offense mate but I have been trying for a couple of days to get a HTML poll running in a text widget, it’s like trying to herd cats, an excercise in futility it seems.
I’d be frankly astounded if you got one to embed but the link looks OK and WORKS that’s the thing. -
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it’s nifty, but it’s actually a link, you still have to go to the poll site before you can vote.
Also I notice it allowed me to vote numerous times so maybe you need to enable cookies to prevent multiple votes being cast.
If you take a look at mine I actually jazzed it up with a tasteful pic of a ballot box which to me actually looks better than the poll itself.
Even so, you have had more sucess embeding a poll in the past hour than I have had in the past two days so, um….congrats. -
Thanks. But it’s not my blog and not my idea. I think you choose the settings about multiple voting at the host’s site. You can block that option if you prefer.
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To see a sample of a NuPolls (BasicPolls) and a GFXPolls poll in a sidebar here at wordpress.com, go here: http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/ .
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Allow us JAVASCRIPT!!! Every widget and poll nowadays is javascript. Why can’t we develop our blogs so that they will look better?!?
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Javascript is a security risk. We all share the same underlying wordpress and theme files, and if you were to introduce a poorly written javascript, it could potentially bring us all down. There is a lot of very poorly written javascript out there.
You can self-host and then you can add any javascript flash, iframes or forms you want – security risk or not.
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