Are you looking for the best WordPress poll plugins for your site?
Online polls are a powerful tool to connect with your audience, gather valuable insights, and boost website engagement. Whether you want to gauge product preferences, gather feedback on your content, or simply spark conversation, you can do that with polls.
In this article, we’ll compare the best WordPress poll plugins to help you engage your audience and gather actionable data. We often use WPForms to create WordPress polls, but we’ve tested all of the plugins on this list to help you choose the best option for your specific needs.
What to Look for in a WordPress Poll Plugin?
Online polls offer a fun and easy way to keep your audience engaged. That’s why popular websites like BuzzFeed regularly use them to create viral content and increase the time users spend on their websites.
There are many WordPress poll plugins that can help you add online polls to your website. Here are a few things we looked for in a great WordPress poll plugin during our testing:
- It should be easy to use so that you can quickly create polls
- Polls should look nice and can be easily added anywhere including posts, pages, or sidebar widgets
- Your poll plugin should be fast and shouldn’t affect website speed or user experience
- Should be able to display poll results with graphs and charts
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Best WordPress Poll Plugins
If you’re in a hurry, you can use this quick comparison of our top picks to help you make a decision.
| # | Plugin | Best For | Price |
| 🥇 | WPForms | Easy and powerful polls | $199.50/yr |
| 🥈 | Formidable Forms | Advanced polls | $199.50/yr |
| 🥉 | UserFeedback | Website feedback polls | $49.50/yr + Free |
| 4 | YOP Poll | Scheduled polls | Free |
| 5 | WP-Polls | Simple polls | Free |
| Bonus | Crowdsignal | Social media polls | $15/mo + Free |
Now, let’s take a closer look at the best WordPress poll plugins and how they stack up against each other.
1. WPForms
WPForms is the best WordPress contact form plugin, and their Pro plan includes a powerful surveys and polls addon. It lets you easily create unlimited online polls, embed them anywhere on your site, and display results with beautiful charts.
You can drag and drop multiple form fields allowing users to select single or multiple answers. WPForms also allows you to use images as poll choices along with text.
The best part is that you can automatically display poll results on the same page after the user submits their vote.
WPForms allows you to embed poll results anywhere on your site. If you want to export poll results to include in your PowerPoint presentations or other offline mode presentations, then that’s possible as well.
For detailed instructions, see our article on how to create an interactive poll in WordPress.
Over 6 million websites use WPForms to create smart forms, surveys, and polls. To learn more about the plugin, you can see our complete WPForms review.
Pricing: To access the Survey and Polls addon, you need the WPForms Pro plan, which costs $199.50 per year. Aside from surveys and polls, it includes other powerful features like Stripe and PayPal integrations, conversational forms, user registration, and much more.
2. Formidable Forms
Formidable Forms is an advanced surveys and polls form builder for WordPress. It comes with a drag and drop interface that you can use to create your poll.
Their visual poll styler allows you to customize the poll designs. You can also use it to create multi-page surveys, polls with a progress bar, polls with images, and more.
It has all the advanced features you would hope for such as smart question branching (conditional logic), the ability to review before submitting, and beautiful reports and graphs.
Over 300,000 websites use Formidable Forms to create solution-focused forms.
Pricing: Formidable Forms starts at $39.50 per year. However, you need the Business plan to create polls, which costs $199.50 per year.
3. UserFeedback
UserFeedback is another great WordPress poll plugin, created by the team at MonsterInsights. It lets you easily create popup polls and collect responses from your website visitors in real-time.
It comes with the necessary fields to create a poll, including multiple-choice questions. You can also ask free form questions, capture emails, collect star ratings, and more.
You can add your poll anywhere on your WordPress site using shortcode or use the easy targeting rules to customize exactly where and when your poll appears.
UserFeedback offers simple reporting inside the WordPress dashboard to analyze your poll results.
Pricing: There is a free version of UserFeedback that you can use to get started. For more features, including 20+ question templates, unlimited question types, and more, you can upgrade to the premium version starting at $49.50 per year.
4. YOP Poll
YOP Poll is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add online polls and surveys to your website. It is free and easy to install in WordPress.
You can schedule polls, display polls on multiple pages, show poll results in numbers and percentages, reset polls anytime, and more. It helps in limiting the poll to guest/registered users and blocking users by cookie, IP, or username.
YOP poll can display results in different styles. Their archive feature allows you to show previous poll results sorted by the start and end date of the poll.
Pricing: Free.
5. WP-Polls
WP-Polls is a simple, easy, and free poll solution for your WordPress site. It allows you to add online polls to your WordPress pages, posts, and widget areas.
Users can select multiple options in the poll. WP-Polls automatically shows results after the users select their choices. If you want to customize the look of your poll and know a little coding, then you can change the theme and add custom CSS style to your poll.
Pricing: Free.
Bonus: Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy)
Crowdsignal is another popular WordPress polls plugin. It allows you to create and manage polls from your WordPress dashboard.
You can create a multiple-choice poll, set a close date for the poll, display or hide poll results on your site, customize your poll styling, and more. Crowdsignal also allows you to embed your polls on other WordPress sites.
It prevents multiple responses from the same users with basic IP filtering. It is a free plugin. However, you’ll need a WordPress.com account to generate an API key.
Pricing: There’s a free plan that allows you to collect limited responses. Premium plans with unlimited responses start at $15 per month.
We hope this article helped you find the best WordPress poll plugins to use on your website. You may also want to see our expert pick of the best WordPress survey plugins to create online surveys on your site, and our comparison of the best push notification software to connect with your visitors after they leave your website.
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Jiří Vaněk says
I’ve been using a separate plugin for voting, and the fact that WP Forms can also do this function is new to me. A great tip that I will definitely try and look at your more detailed article right away. Even after about a year of using this plugin, I keep coming across new and new things that WP Forms can do. It’s a great plugin.
Aditya Jain says
Is there any polling system where we create a poll Like
Correct option is A, B, C, D
and it can be used in any post using shortcode and will display different result for every post.
WPBeginner Support says
It sounds like you are looking for a quiz, in that case, you may want to take a look at LMS plugins:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/best-wordpress-lms-plugins-compared/
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Ben says
Hello,
Is there a poll plugin that supports “pay to poll” function? Any ideas?
Thanks
WPBeginner Support says
We do not have a recommendation for that at the moment.
Admin
Tim Suggs says
I am looking for a poll that will allow users to add their own poll suggestions if they want.
We are trying to create a poll of new ideas we should implement for our business so we want people to be able to add ideas themselves and then have other people vote for those ideas.
WPBeginner Support says
We don’t have a recommendation for that at the moment, it would normally be better to ask your users for their feedback before a poll is created so you can show what you would be willing and able to do on your site.
Admin
Shahid says
Can you suggest me a poll plugin where user has to first register on our website using a form and then he can vote.
WPBeginner Support says
You could add a membership plugin if you want them to have a user before submitting or you could add a form plugin and the success redirection would go to the page as two possible options.
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Avram says
Do any of these polling plug in’s allow you to use images as the polling question?
WPBeginner Support says
WPForms does have an option to use images, for the other plugins you would want to reach out to the individual plugins for their current capabilities.
Admin
ewsdf says
WPForms isn’t even for polls. Stop scamming
WPBeginner Support says
We’re not, WPForms can handle polls and we explain how to set it up in our article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-create-an-interactive-poll-in-wordpress-step-by-step/
Admin
Lynne says
Hi – I’m building a site for an awards ceremony too, but need to be able to link through to the biog pages for each of the potential winners from within the poll options (e.g. their name links to their biog). Is that possible with any of these?
Many thanks in advance,
Lynne
Chiemezie John Duru says
Hi lynne, I am actually looking up on building an Award hosting site.
Have you choosed ur best Poll plug-in.
Nicci Fletcher says
Thank you for an interesting and very timely comparison. I want to organise an annual Awards Ceremony on my WP website. People would be nominated for an award and their details would be posted in that section of the website. Visitors would vote for the different nominees and the winners would be the people with the most votes. Do any of the above plugins have this functionality? If not, can you suggest some options for me? Many thanks in advance.
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Nicci,
Seems like WPForms would be the perfect tool for that.
Admin
Nicci Fletcher says
Many thanks. I already have WP Forms installed so I will dig deeper into how it works.
Tim Strawn says
Was asking webmaster to install Poll Daddy and they say there’s a lot to do to get this plugin online like setting up API credentials etc. and would take 2 1/2 work to complete SO, I’m thinking WPForms at this point. Is that going to be complicated and time consuming for an experienced web person to install on my WP site?
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Tim,
WPForms works on your website and you can set it up quickly. The only key you will need is your license key which gives you access to updates.
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Sandeep Singh says
Hello Sir, I see a banner below your YouTube Video you share saying- Subscribe to WPBegginers and a subscribe button. How can I add this like you in my blog?
WPBeginner Support says
Hi Sandeep,
Please see our tutorial on how to add YouTube subscribe button to videos in WordPress.
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