I've been enjoying using polls to engage with readers, but currently it seems like I'm limited to radio buttons only. Is there a way I can make a poll with checkboxes instead, so that users may select more than one option?
I've been enjoying using polls to engage with readers, but currently it seems like I'm limited to radio buttons only. Is there a way I can make a poll with checkboxes instead, so that users may select more than one option?
Ah, that's too bad. The benefit to having the polls directly on the page is that we get pretty good response rates. These are also really just to keep users interested rather than for gathering data. I'll just stick with OR questions instead of AND ones, then. Thank you for responding!
Can PollSnack or PollDaddy be embedded directly into the page? And if so, how do I do that?
Yea they can. For Poll Snack it would be:
<pollsnack hash="" />
PollDaddy:
<polldaddy id="" />
Thank you! I'm updating the polls today, so I'll give one of those a try.
So polldaddy says it doesn't have any IP or other restrictions on voting, while pollsnack implies that it uses a cookie to restrict voting (which I think is the same as the mediawiki plugin). Do you know if this is accurate? For now I'll be using pollsnack, based on that feature, I think.
Edit: nevermind. I cannot for the life of me get the share/embed button to show the hash code. I've turned off all my plugins, changed browsers, nothing. I'll give polldaddy a try instead.
Double edit: apparently the url tag is the "hash", so I can use that to embed them. The display is the default for all polls with pollsnack; do you know if there's any way to change that? For now, I think I'll just use float in order to get around how vertical it is.
You can use width=""
and height=""
in both poll tags.
That worked, thank you. It even accepted "50%" rather than a pixel/ em distance.
Sorry to bump. It turns out that Pollsnack won't display the poll results unless you pay, so that's not going to be an option.
I'm now onto Polldaddy, which it turns out does actually have an option to allow only one response per user (by cookie, I think; the other options like IP etc are only for paid memberships). However, I can't get it to work on my page. Do you know where I can find the ID? I've tried all the things that look like IDs in all of the different ways of displaying the survey, and their own javascript container doesn't work.