Adding polls in your blog posts can help you keep your blog readers busy and hence cut your blog bounce rate. Polls make blog posts interesting and lets readers mount their views easily on the question you have asked with just a click or two. Here we showcase top 15 WordPress poll plugins that will simplify the task of adding poll’s in your blog.

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WP-Polls

WP-Polls allows you to add a fully functional and customizable poll system in your blog in a few clicks. WP-Polls is AJAX based. Hence it is very fast and can be embedded easily. WP-Polls allows you to display a poll in any part of your WordPress blog. Using WP-Polls you can even add a poll in your WordPress blog posts or pages with the help of simple short codes or with a click of button in the “Add New Post” panel.

WP-Polls

You can customize WP-Polls in any way to any extent you want using the templates feature it has. In case you want to give your polls a personal touch and design, you can even use CSS. WP-Polls is full of options that allow you to customize the plugin indeed easily.

• AJAX based
• Easy configuration
• Easy styling using templates & CSS
• Multiple answers selection enabled
• HTML allowed in answers field allowing you to use images.

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PollDaddy Polls

Using PollDaddy Polls WordPress you can easily create and manage polls from within your WordPress dashboard. PollDaddy has more than 20 styles allowing you to give a nice look to your polls. You can even make your own unique styles. PollDaddy polls offer a lot of customization. You can set the close date, enable multiple options selection, hide or display results, etc.

PollDaddy Polls

PollDaddy Polls

Since this plugin uses PollDaddy database these polls can be added in any website or blog.

• 20+ Styles
• Easy configuration & customization
• Less load on WordPress
• Multiple options selection enabled
• Hide / Display results

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SodaHead Polls

Sodahead is probably one of the best WordPress poll plugins. Like the other plugins mentioned in this blog post, Sodahead too allows you to customize and configure the plugin easily. ABCnews, Fox News, NYPost.com, and Technorati suggest to use SodaHead as it offers real-time results and takes less load on your servers.

SodaHead Polls

• Customize size, colors, and background skins – add your logo
• Include images and videos
• Save and organize themes for future use
• Security against vote fraud (flash-based)
• Grabbable by readers… make your poll go viral!

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UPM Polls

UPM Polls allows you to create simple polls in your WordPress blog. UPM Polls is quite simple yet highly configurable. It features a complete poll manager, create post specific polls, add a poll within post content, etc. If your choice is simplicity, you must try UPM Polls!

UPM Polls

• Poll Manager
• Ability to set general and post/page specific polls
• Ability to leaf over the polls
• Ability to add certain poll in certain post content
• Ability to show polls either with and without current results of polls

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Mz-Jajak Polls

Mz Jajak allows WordPress users to add a poll on their blog as a widget in their sidebar, footer or virtually anywhere in your blog where a widget can be added! Configuring the plugin is very simple. Using the plugin options panel you can create, delete, edit, activate, deactivate polls. The special feature I like in Mz Jajak polls is that it shows graphs and charts of the poll results.

Mz-Jajak Polls

• Display graphs & charts of results
• Simple & easy customization
• Can be used as a widget
• Easy to use options panel
• Sweet name

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1. JR_Ratings

This plugin allows you to enable a rating form where users can rate a particular post. After you upload and activate the plugin, you will be able to edit the JR_Ratings plugin’s settings in the Administration panel.

2. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin.

3. Democracy AJAX Poll

Democracy adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog. It grew out of frustration with the only other WordPress polling option, WP-poll.

4. WP Easy Polls

WP Easy Polls is a quick and easy way to create money making polls for affiliate marketers. You can create polls within minutes and you can easily theme your polls with different designs.

5. SodaHead

With SodaHead, you can create a free poll for your blog with images and a fully customized look in seconds using the best poll widget available.

6. PollDaddy Polls & Ratings

The PollDaddy Polls and Ratings plugin allows you to create and manage polls and ratings from within your WordPress dashboard. You can create polls, choose from 20 different styles for your polls, and view all results for your polls as they come in.

7. Star Rating for Reviews

Star Rating for Reviews is a simple WordPress plugin that inserts pretty rating stars based on the score you assign using intuitive, inline [rating:] tags. It can also calculate and output overall ratings for you based on all previous scores you have assigned.

8. Vote-The-Post

Vote-The-Post plugin is a professionally-designed computer application for WordPress, which allows users to vote on the individual posts on your blog or website.

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