Adding Polls on your blog

Posted on November 29th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Uncategorized.

The new feature ‘Polls’ enables you to know the opinion of your readers. Blogpico enables you to create polls and add them on your post.

Example:  Question:  Rate my blog ?

                  Answer 1: Great

                  Answer 2: Good

                  Answer 3:  Fair

[poll=2]

How to create a poll and use it ?

Answer.  To enable Polls on your blog. You require to activate your plugin Polls.

Step 1:  Go to Plugin section (Blog Administrative account)

Step 2:  Activate Polls and Polls widget

Step 3:  A new section will appear on administration panel navigation menu called “Polls”.

Step 4: Go to Poll section

There are 4 sub-options under Polls

•  Manage polls: This section enables you to manage your existing polls. You can delete, edit and check your poll performance of your polls (Log). 

•  Add polls: This section enables you to create your poll. Enter your poll question and provide answers to be selected by readers (minimum numbers of 2 answers are required to create a poll)

‘Add Answers’ to provide additional number of answers;
‘Remove Answer’ to remove an answer from your poll

Each Poll will have a unique ID. 

Click Poll button  ( available in your WYSWYG editor ) and enter your poll ID to embed your poll in your post while using visual option

or

Use this in code [poll=poll_ID] (Replace poll_ID with Poll ID like: 1 or 2)  in your post.  example: [poll=1] (Go to Polls > Manage section to identify your polls) while using code option.

Poll Multiple Answers: This option allows your readers to select more than one answer. You can limit the number of answers to be selected by users.

Poll Start/End Date : Set poll start time and end date. Example : Your poll start on 9 nov X007 and end on 9 dec 2007

•  Polls option:This section allows you to config your polls. like :

Poll Bar style : Select your poll vote bar .

Poll Ajax style : Show Loading Image With Text and  Show Fading In And Fading Out Of Poll

and more

• Poll template : This section allows you edit style of your poll template. In case your template is not working properly click “Restore default template”.

Polls Widget

A new widget will appear on Presentation > sidebar widgets. It enables you to display polls on your sidebar in case you are using Sidebar widget feature to customize your blog sidebar.

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