Polls have been updated

The poll plugin has gotten some love lately and have evolved quite a bit. So here are the details.

Single (default)

The simplest poll you can make is a single choice poll.

You just need a list surrounded by the [poll] BBCode tag [/poll].

[poll]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]

This will create a poll like this:

  • Option A
  • Option B
  • Option C

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Multiple

If you want to allow multiple choices, you only need to add “type=multiple” to the tag, like so:

[poll type=multiple]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]

This will produce the following poll (note the help text)

  • Option A
  • Option B
  • Option C

0 voters

Multiple (with options)

If you want to limit the number of selected options in a multiple choices poll, you can do so using both “min” and “max” arguments:

[poll type=multiple color=red min=1 max=2]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]

This will produce a multiple choice polls allowing up to 2 different options:

  • Option A
  • Option B
  • Option C

0 voters

Multiple polls in the same post

Have you noticed that this post contains several polls? Wonder how’s that possible? It’s because I’m using a different “name” for each of the polls :wink:

[poll name=single]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]

There are a lot more options like changing the background color or text color by adding “background=blue” or “color=red” respectively.

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Polls got a facelift. Looking spiffy now.