Poll daddy help

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  shapeuc · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 6:20 am

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  I’m using a poll on my shapeuc site and while it shows on the page of all the posts (http://shapeuc.wordpress.com/posts/) it doesn’t show on the archive page http://shapeuc.wordpress.com/category/students/. Is there any way to make it appear in full on both pages?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 8:09 am

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  Only if you switch to a theme in which category pages display posts as on the main page – see here:

  Category/archive pages: full posts or not

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  shapeuc · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 8:46 am

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  Is there really no way round this? If I switch to a different theme then I seem to have to set up all my widgets, header size etc again and that takes time which I don’t have. Any thoughts would be really appreciated.

  Thanks

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  shapeuc · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 9:37 am

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  Can excerpts be used?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 9:40 am

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  You’re welcome, but “only” means “only”! There would be a way around this if you were talking about images, but it doesn’t apply to objects inserted via shortcodes – see note 3 in the post I linked to.
  The only thing you can do is insert a note in the Excerpt box of the post editor to inform viewers that this post includes a poll, maybe also add the link to the original Polldaddy page with your poll.

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  shapeuc · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 9:53 am

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  Thanks. So many pitfalls picking a theme. So hard to know what you need it to do before you pick the theme and then you find it can’t do everything.

  if I change themes is here a way to take all the widgets through as well or is it necessary to reenter those?

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  wpgaurav · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 9:55 am

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  There is a way: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-copy-widgets-from-one-theme-to-another?replies=5

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 3, 2011 at 11:27 am

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  More precisely, the widgets may move to Inactive: if you change from a theme to a similarly designed one, the widgets stay in place.

  But it’s always safer to keep a back-up of the content of text widgets in particular, just in case (although these too can be retrieved if you lose them).