Top 3 Polling Solutions for NPO’s on WordPress
Polls are a great and interactive way to better understand what your website’s visitors are thinking. They can be used for everything from serious market research to building reader engagement.
If your target audience is anywhere between low and medium, WordPress plugins are the best option. If you want to target a larger crowd, blockchain based solutions will be helpful.
In this article, we are going to review the best polling solutions for WordPress websites and also some of the best blockchain based polling solutions.
Polling solutions for WordPress Website (also suitable for nonprofits)
Providing an online polling system on your website will let users post their opinions. The key features to expect in a good polling plugin are,
- It should be attractive and easy to use
- It should be easy to add and display the results anywhere including posts or sidebar widgets
- The result should include attractive graphs and charts
- It shouldn’t affect the user experience or the website speed
Some of the top free WordPress plugins which offer the polling features are listed below.
Yop Poll
YOP Poll is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to add online polls and surveys to your website. Using this plugin, the admin can add multi-choice polls, use shortcodes & widgets, schedule polls, show online polls on different pages, display results in percentages, reset the poll any time, and add a limit to display polls to the registered users only. You can also display previous poll results to users.
Plugin information
- Active installations: 20,000+
- Last updated: 3 weeks ago
- Requires WordPress version 3.3 or higher
- Average rating 4.4 out of 5 based on 393 reviews
WP-Polls
WP-Polls is a free plugin which allows you to add polls in your WordPress pages, posts, and widget areas. It is customizable via templates and CSS styles and there are many options for you to choose to ensure that the plugin runs the way you want. It now supports multiple selections of answers customizing it. You also have the option to change the look and feel of this plugin.
Plugin information
- Active installations: 100,000+
- Last updated: 1 day ago
- Requires WordPress version 4.9.6 or higher
- Average rating 4.1 out of 5 based on 113 reviews
Crowd Signal
Crowd Signal has a free and premium version. In the free version of this plugin, admin can create unlimited polls and surveys and add it to any pages, posts or widget areas using shortcodes and widgets. Results will be displayed in charts and graphs. Additional features like advanced reporting, 10k email invites, white-label surveys are available in the paid version which starts at $200/per year or $29 a month.
Premium Features
- Upto 10 user accounts
- Upto 50k email invites per month
- Whitelist up to 10 polls
- Advanced reporting
- Export responses and reports
- Secure results sharing
- Use your own domain name
- White-label surveys (no branding)
- Customize the look and feel of your surveys
- Advanced API access
- Priority e-mail support
- Generate QR access codes
For more features, pls refer their official website here: https://crowdsignal.com/pricing/
Responsive Poll
By using Responsive Poll, you can create an unlimited number of polls and add it to any pages, posts and widgets areas using shortcodes. The plugin is fully responsive and follows a user-friendly and mobile-first approach. It has an attractive drag and drop feature where you can grab an event and drop to any location of your choice.
The plugin also has a premium version with features like custom styles for vote buttons, unlimited color combinations and more which starts from $15 for one website. Click here to learn more about the feature comparison between various versions.
Free plugin information
- Active installations: 4,000+
- Last updated: 2 months ago
- Requires WordPress version 3.4 or higher
- Average rating 4.6 out of 5 based on 35 reviews
Premium Features
- Results by Both / Votes Count or Percent
- Image / Video Position
- 125 Font Styles
- Voter Location
- Over 200 Styling Options
- Fully Customizable Themes
- Custom styles for vote buttons
- You can customize the poll color and font family
- Customize templates settings (colors, layouts, choices per row etc…)
- You can change the results of the poll
- From admin panel to see who voted
- Unlimited number of colors
- Can choose main background color
- Customize results fragments (votes, percentage)
- Customize typography settings (font family, image size, video size)
OpinionStage Poll
The basic free version of OpinionStage Poll allows an unlimited number of polls to be created. You can embed on your site using javascript, iframe, WordPress short-code or placements. It supports article, sidebar and popup placements as well. The plugin has a premium version with features like opinion stage branding, and premium support from $19/month.
Free plugin information
- Active installations: 10,000+
- Last updated: 1 week ago
- Requires WordPress version 2.8 or higher
- Average rating 4.5 out of 5 based on 249 reviews
Premium Features
- Unlimited Leads
- Advanced Reports
- Pixel Tracking
- Export Responses
- Support for periodic voting
- Block repeat voting
- Hide results from Voters
- Auto-close polls
- Social profile voting
- Gather twitter followers
- Redirect on vote
- Skip logic in surveys
- Call-to-action button
- Redirect based on results
- Randomize answers orders
- Customize result title
- Add result to sharing message
- Support multiple results
- Full customization and white label
- Ad Revenue
- etc
For more features, pls refer their website