Recently we needed to make a poll with images in WordPress.
On our system we only had WP-Polls installed and we decided to go along with it despite its drawbacks.
Drawbacks of using WP-Polls:
- Does not support polls with images directly.
- Does not allow you to configure ‘Poll Options’ per poll.
For example, either all polls are logged by username or none is.
In any case, we only needed one poll for a very specific task so we decided to ignore those limitations and see what we could do with the current vanilla code of WP-Polls ([download id=”4022″]).
What we did was the following:
A: We configured the system to only allow registered users to vote and set the vote logging to be per username
B: We modified the templates below to receive the poll answers as URIs for images.
Voting Form Body:
<li><input type="%POLL_CHECKBOX_RADIO%" id="poll-answer-%POLL_ANSWER_ID%" name="poll_%POLL_ID%" value="%POLL_ANSWER_ID%" /> <label for="poll-answer-%POLL_ANSWER_ID%"><img src="%POLL_ANSWER%" />%POLL_ANSWER%</label></li>
Result Body:
Displayed When The User HAS NOT Voted
<li><img src="%POLL_ANSWER%" />%POLL_ANSWER% <small>(%POLL_ANSWER_PERCENTAGE%%, %POLL_ANSWER_VOTES% Votes)</small><div class="pollbar" style="width: %POLL_ANSWER_IMAGEWIDTH%%" title="%POLL_ANSWER_TEXT% (%POLL_ANSWER_PERCENTAGE%% | %POLL_ANSWER_VOTES% Votes)"></div></li>
Result Body:
Displayed When The User HAS Voted
<li><img src="%POLL_ANSWER%" /><strong><i>%POLL_ANSWER% <small>(%POLL_ANSWER_PERCENTAGE%%, %POLL_ANSWER_VOTES% Votes)</small></i></strong><div class="pollbar" style="width: %POLL_ANSWER_IMAGEWIDTH%%" title="You Have Voted For This Choice - %POLL_ANSWER_TEXT% (%POLL_ANSWER_PERCENTAGE%% | %POLL_ANSWER_VOTES% Votes)"></div></li>
These two changes produced the following result:
[poll id=”1″]
We did not fiddle with the CCS of the site to make the polls look better or anything as it was OK for the scenario that we cared about.