how do I set up a voting form via the Android app?
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Hi there, could you tell me how to set up a voting form on my blog via the Android app. (I want to get readers to vote on their favourite post)
Thanks in anticipation,
dalecooper57The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Oct 14, 2013, 3:21 PMHi there, could you tell me how to set up a voting form on my blog via the Android app. (I want to get readers to vote on their favourite post)Thanks in anticipation,dalecooper57
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Hi Dale,
There isn’t a specific way to setup a voting form via the Android app. Via the site’s dashboard, you have a couple of options depending on exactly what you’re looking for.
If you’re wanting a true poll, you can use the “Add Poll” button on any page or post editor. Details instructions with screenshots can be found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/polls/
Additionally, you can enable Ratings if you want the ongoing collection of data about your posts. More details on that can be found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/ratings/
If you have any questions or need anything else, please let me know. Thanks!
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Hi there, thanks for the advice. I’m an Android-only blogger and want to set up a poll for readers to vote for their favourite part so far.
I’ve found a thing called Polldaddy which might work but I’m having trouble getting the actual form to materialise on my blog. It only provides a hyperlink to their site. Make any sense to you at all? -
Howdy,
Which post/page are you trying to add the poll? I can give a look and see if I can determine what’s going on.
Thanks!
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I set up a new page with a trial version of the poll, posted it under “private” to check it. All I found was the link, which took me to a page saying “you don’t have authority to view this page”. Since deleted the test page and haven’t tried again yet.
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Howdy,
I added a poll at http://diaryofaninternetnobody.com/example with a password of example . The poll is working on my Android device.
You can copy/paste that code (that appears when you edit that page) into any post or page and it’ll work.
Does that work for you?
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Ah, sorry. Deleted that by mistake, didn’t know what it was. Thought it was a dead link. Excuse my technical ineptitude.
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Still getting “You are forbidden to access this page” messages when using the link I was given to embed from polldaddy.
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Can you edit the example page that I made? You can copy and paste that code? (It’ll look like [polldaddy poll=12345] )
If you’re creating the poll directly on PollDaddy, on the page that has the code to embed should have a tab for WordPress with that shortcode.
Alternatively, if you can use a regular browser, when editing the page, there is an “Add Poll” button above the text field.
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Sorry, as I said, I deleted the example page by mistake.
Let me check the WordPress tab. I’ve used a long java script code. -
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With the shortcode, you can paste it directly in as you would any text content. There’s nothing special required to paste in a short code.
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The shortcode (in the style of [polldaddy poll=123456] is a small bit of code that WordPress.com converts to the longer code needed to embed the poll.
We don’t accept the Javascript option directly since malicious Javascript code could cause a lot of damage to a visitor’s system, so the shortcodes are a way we can allow flexibility while still maintaining a secure platform.
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I believe you underestimate my stupidity If I post that code into my page, the pool will appear,?
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Oh no, my apologies for not being more clear!
Yes, if you paste the shortcode (a la [polldaddy poll=123456] ) into a post or page, that particular poll will appear when viewing the page as a visitor.
When editing the page or post, you’ll only see the [polldaddy poll....], but the published page will pull in the poll.
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Aha! Finally the penny drops. That would explain why I could only see the code on the test page.
Thanks for all your help (and patience with my technological inanities) I’ll give it a go.
By the way, can the poll be renewed after the initial week run?
I need to keep it running for longer than that.
Oh yeah, and another thing (last one, honest) can I use links to posts as the poll options?
ie, A hyperlink to each post that I’m giving as choices for the poll winner -
My understanding is yes to both questions. For the hyperlink, you’ll likely need to type in the html code for that (e.g.
<a href="http://example.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/your-post">title of your post</a>), but I don’t work with Polldaddy.Polldaddy’s support docs can be reached via http://support.polldaddy.com/ or contacted directly at http://polldaddy.com/feedback/
Cheers!
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