PollHive – Poll, Voting & Survey

Description

A complete poll, voting, and survey plugin for WordPress.

Create unlimited polls, run online voting contests, and gather opinions with fast AJAX voting, configurable results, and a built-in analytics dashboard. Every poll automatically adopts your active theme’s own colors, so it looks like part of your site from the first vote — no CSS required.

Why PollHive

• Secure, authenticated voting. Every vote is tied to a logged-in WordPress account, with one-vote-per-person enforcement built in — so results mean something.
• You control what visitors see, and when. Results can stay hidden until someone votes, or until the poll closes — your choice, per poll.
• On-brand automatically. Theme color detection is built in — no settings screen full of color pickers required.
• Nothing happens without your permission. The REST API is off by default. Uninstalling keeps your data untouched unless you explicitly opt in to remove it.
• Built for every visitor. Keyboard-operable, ARIA-labeled, reduced-motion aware — not an afterthought.

Quick Features

✔ Unlimited polls & options
✔ Text or image polls (contest voting included)
✔ Single or multiple choice
✔ AJAX voting — instant, no page reload
✔ Logged-in, one-vote-per-person enforcement
✔ Optional vote changing
✔ Poll scheduling & automatic closing
✔ Results visible always, after voting, or after close — your choice
✔ Progress bars or a live pie chart (Chart.js)
✔ Automatic theme color matching
✔ Light / Dark / Auto display mode
✔ Categories & free-form tags
✔ Filterable, sortable poll archive — created automatically
✔ 5 shortcodes + native Elementor widget
✔ Share popover — 10 platforms, your pick of which
✔ Built-in analytics dashboard
✔ Drag-and-drop poll builder, no code
✔ Optional read-only REST API (off by default)
✔ Translation-ready, POT file included
✔ Full keyboard & screen-reader accessibility

Detailed Features

Secure, authenticated voting

Every vote is tied to a logged-in WordPress account, with one vote per person per poll — updatable if you allow vote changing, locked if you don’t. Votes submit by AJAX, instantly, with no page reload, so results reflect real people, not repeat clicks.

You decide when results go public

Always visible, visible only after voting, or only after the poll closes — set site-wide or per individual poll. It’s enforced the same way everywhere: on the page, in AJAX responses, and in the REST API if you turn that on.

Results people actually read

A progress-bar list, an interactive pie chart, or both with a tab switcher. Winners are called out automatically. A genuine tie is labeled as a tie — PollHive won’t quietly invent a winner.

On-brand automatically

PollHive reads your theme’s own primary color — Astra’s Global Color Palette, or a block theme’s theme.json accent — and derives the entire poll’s palette from it, chart colors included. Every other theme gets a clean built-in fallback. Prefer a fixed look instead? Set Light, Dark, or Auto display mode in Settings.

Image polls & contest voting

Any option can carry a Media Library image, rendered as a photo grid automatically — ready for design contests, “pick your favorite” polls, or any visual choice.

Scheduling that runs itself

Set a poll to open at a future date and close automatically at an expiry date, checked hourly. Set it up once; it starts and stops on its own.

Organized like your content

Categories (hierarchical, with their own admin screen) and free-form tags (created inline while building a poll). A filterable, sortable poll archive page — status, category, tag filters, Newest / Most Voted / Trending sort — is created automatically the moment you activate the plugin.

A poll and survey maker that works anywhere

A drag-and-drop builder creates the poll; five shortcodes place it — a specific poll, an auto-picked latest/random/popular poll, or the full archive — in any page, post, or widget area, in the Block Editor or Classic Editor. A native Elementor poll widget is available too, if Elementor is your builder — it’s an option, not a requirement.

Share without leaving the page

A built-in popover for Facebook, X, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, Pinterest, Threads, email, and copy-link. Turn on only the platforms you want.

Real analytics, not just a vote count

Vote trends over time, desktop/mobile/tablet breakdown, top-performing polls, and a live recent-votes feed — from your wp-admin dashboard, no separate plugin required.

Nothing hidden, nothing forced

The REST API is read-only and off until you enable it — and what it returns still respects each poll’s own results-visibility setting. Uninstalling leaves your data untouched unless you explicitly opt in to full cleanup.

Perfect For

• Community websites and member polls
• Customer feedback and product research
• Image contests and design voting
• Educational and classroom opinion polls
• Sports clubs and fan polls
• Internal team decisions
• Opinion polls embedded in blog posts

Works Great With

• WordPress 6.4+ — no dependencies required to run
• Any WordPress theme — automatic color matching for Astra and block themes, a clean fallback for everything else
• The Block Editor and Classic Editor — shortcodes work in either
• Elementor — a native poll widget, if you use it (not required)
• Any shortcode-compatible page builder — PollHive’s display is shortcode-based at its core, so it places wherever a WordPress shortcode can go

Additional native integrations are on the roadmap and are not part of the current version.

PollHive is free to install and takes minutes to set up. Add the plugin, create your first poll, and start collecting real, authenticated votes today.