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Add a poll to a page

Once you have created a poll, you are ready to add it to a page on your site.

Last updated: 05 March 2010, 08:53

You will see on your general content pages (and on other templates if this is part of your site design), you have a placeholder called Poll. This has three options:

Add a poll

In the first option, you can define a heading for the poll, for example you may want to call it Poll of the Week, to let your visitors know that the poll will be updated on a weekly basis. You can leave this option blank if you do not wish to have a heading.

If you have entered a heading, you can choose what style you want this to be displayed in. The default style will be Heading 3, but if you want it to be smaller, you can choose a different heading style.

The last option is for you to choose which poll you want to display. This dropdown menu will show a list of all the polls that you have created in the Poll Maintenance area. You can only have one poll on each page, but you can have the same poll on multiple pages. If you do this, the results for the poll will still be stored in one place, so it will not matter which page the visitor votes on.

If the visitor is signed into the site and they vote on the poll, the vote will be registered against their user account so they cannot vote more than once on the same poll. However, it is important to note that you cannot see the individual votes for each visitor.

If a visitor is not signed into the site, it will be recorded in a cookie on their computer that they have voted on the poll, to try and prevent them from voting multiple times. However, this can be circumvented if the visitor clears their cookies.

Please see below for our example poll, and if you vote, you will see the results displayed on screen.

Vote in our Poll

What is the weather like today?