Title: Stedica Surveys Author: Stedica Published: October 10, 2026 Last modified: October 10, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/stedica-surveys/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3738617) ![](https://ps.w.org/stedica-surveys/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3738617) # Stedica Surveys By [Stedica](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stedica/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stedica-surveys.5.16.5.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stedica-surveys/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stedica-surveys/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stedica-surveys/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stedica-surveys/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/stedica-surveys/) ## Description Stedica Surveys is a survey and questionnaire builder for WordPress. Build a survey by dragging questions into sections, publish it with a shortcode, and read the results in your own dashboard. Responses are stored in your own database. Everything listed below works in this plugin. Nothing is time-limited, capped, or switched off pending a purchase. #### Building * Drag-and-drop builder — reorder sections and questions by dragging * Unlimited surveys, unlimited questions per survey * **17 question types** — surveyor, open ended, closed ended, multiple choice, Likert scale, dichotomous (yes/no), rating, number, dropdown, matrix, ranking, image choice, demographic, calculated field, photo upload, date, signature * Conditional logic — show or hide questions based on earlier answers * **Answer piping** — put an earlier answer into a later question’s wording: “ How was your visit to {answer:q1}?” * **Option randomisation** — shuffle a question’s answer options per respondent to cancel order bias, with “Other” and “None of the above” pinned in place * **Starter templates** — NPS, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, event feedback, product feedback and a store/field audit * Question Library — save a question once, reuse it across surveys * Survey versioning, with a Go-Live mode that locks schema changes #### Keeping responses trustworthy * **Spam protection** — a hidden decoy field, a submission-timing check and a per-connection rate limit. No CAPTCHA, nothing sent to any third party, and nothing for the respondent to do * **One response per person** — by WordPress account, by browser, or by network address, with the limits of each stated where you choose it * **Response cap** — close the survey automatically once it reaches a set number * **Anonymous responses** — do not record which account submitted a response #### Collecting * Shortcode `[stedica_survey id="123"]`, a **Gutenberg block**, and an Elementor widget * **Offline capture, switchable per survey** — a progressive web app queues answers on the respondent’s device with no connection and syncs them when the signal returns. Turn it off per survey for anything only ever taken online * Offline Sync Monitor showing what is queued and what has landed * Progress bar, and save-and-resume for long surveys * Photo upload for image evidence, with server-side validation #### Notifying * **Email notification** when a response is submitted, to any list of recipients * **Confirmation email** back to the respondent, when the response contains an address * Merge tags for the survey name, the respondent, any individual answer, or the whole response * Set defaults once for every survey, then override them per survey * Optional Reply-To the respondent, so replying reaches the person * Responses collected offline notify when they sync, not silently * **Webhooks** — POST each response to a URL you enter, so another system can react to it. Automatic retry if the endpoint is down, and a Send test button so you can prove it works before going live #### Reading * Results dashboard — response counts, completion rate, per-question breakdowns, section metrics and a submission timeline * **Charts** — doughnut, bar, stacked bar and a response-over-time line, chosen automatically to suit each question type. Every chart carries a matching data table, so the figures are readable by screen readers and copyable * **Net Promoter Score** — promoters, passives and detractors, with the score and the base * **Cross-tabulation** — break one question down by another (satisfaction by region), with row, column or total percentages * **Individual response viewer** — open one response and read it as a document, every question in order, with the wording that was on screen when it was answered * Question drill-down * **CSV and Excel (XLSX) export** of every response * REST API for external reporting tools * Per-survey backup, restore, and clear-data #### Running it safely * A Survey Editor role, so people can build surveys without full admin rights * Admin audit log * GDPR personal-data exporter and eraser, wired into WordPress’s own privacy tools * Plugin Health screen that checks tables, capabilities and scheduled jobs #### Extensions, sold separately These are separate products and are not required. This plugin is complete without them. * **Stedica Surveys Premium** — GPS capture, a geo intelligence map, territory and KPI dashboards, risk alerts, and Power BI integration * **Data Sources add-on** — question options populated from an imported CSV or XLSX file, with dependent filtering * **AI Images add-on** — product recognition, image recognition and image comparison question types ### External services **Nothing is sent anywhere by default.** Out of the box this plugin makes no outbound requests: surveys, responses and uploads stay in your own WordPress database and on your own server. Two things can send data out, and both are off until you switch them on. #### Webhooks (optional, off by default) If you enter a webhook URL under Stedica Surveys Notifications, each completed response is POSTed to **that URL — one you choose**, not a service we run. The request contains the survey id and name, the response id and submission time, and the answers. It does not include IP or device hashes, WordPress user ids, or internal version ids. Requests go out through WordPress’s own `wp_safe_remote_post()`, which refuses private and reserved network addresses. If you set a signing secret, each request carries an `X-Stedica-Signature` header — HMAC-SHA256 of the request body — so your endpoint can verify it. The secret itself is never transmitted. Because the destination is yours, its terms and privacy policy are whatever applies to the endpoint you point it at. #### Licensing and updates (Freemius) The plugin bundles the Freemius SDK. It runs in **anonymous mode**: everything described above works without connecting, and no account, opt-in or consent is required for any feature of this plugin. Nothing is sent until you choose to start a trial or activate a licence. The SDK is used for three things, all optional: * the 7-day free trial of Stedica Surveys Premium, a separate paid plugin; * licensing for the optional paid add-ons, and delivering their updates; * delivering updates to Premium itself, which is not distributed here. If you start a trial or activate a licence, the plugin then contacts api.freemius. com periodically to validate it and to check for updates. What is sent is set out on screen before you agree: your WordPress name and email, the site’s URL, title and language, the WordPress, PHP and plugin versions it runs, and whether the plugin is still active. Your surveys and their responses are never sent. The list of other plugins and themes installed on the site, which the SDK can collect by default, is switched off in this plugin and never transmitted. The Premium Version menu item opens `checkout.freemius.com` in a new tab. That is a link you click, not a background request. * Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ * Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/ ## Screenshots [⌊The drag-and-drop builder: question types on the left, the survey canvas in the middle, branching and logic rules on the right.⌉⌊The drag-and-drop builder: question types on the left, the survey canvas in the middle, branching and logic rules on the right.⌉[ The drag-and-drop builder: question types on the left, the survey canvas in the middle, branching and logic rules on the right. [⌊The same survey as respondents see it, on desktop and on a phone, with the offline sync status and a progress bar.⌉⌊The same survey as respondents see it, on desktop and on a phone, with the offline sync status and a progress bar.⌉[ The same survey as respondents see it, on desktop and on a phone, with the offline sync status and a progress bar. [⌊The results dashboard: filters, CSV and XLSX export, cross-tabs, and completion statistics.⌉⌊The results dashboard: filters, CSV and XLSX export, cross-tabs, and completion statistics.⌉[ The results dashboard: filters, CSV and XLSX export, cross-tabs, and completion statistics. [⌊The Offline Sync Monitor, showing which devices still hold responses that have not reached the server.⌉⌊The Offline Sync Monitor, showing which devices still hold responses that have not reached the server.⌉[ The Offline Sync Monitor, showing which devices still hold responses that have not reached the server. [⌊The Question Library: save a question once and reuse it across surveys.⌉⌊The Question Library: save a question once and reuse it across surveys.⌉[ The Question Library: save a question once and reuse it across surveys. [⌊Drop-off analysis: how far respondents get, and the question they abandon.⌉⌊Drop- off analysis: how far respondents get, and the question they abandon.⌉[ Drop-off analysis: how far respondents get, and the question they abandon. ## Blocks This plugin provides 1 block. * Stedica Survey Embed a Stedica survey. The survey itself is rendered when the page loads, so edits to the survey appear everywhere it is embedded. ## Installation 1. Install through **Plugins Add New**, or upload the ZIP via **Plugins Add New Upload Plugin**. 2. Activate it. 3. Open **Stedica Surveys** in the admin menu and create your first survey. 4. Publish it with the **Stedica Survey** block, or the [stedica_survey id=”123″] shortcode. ## FAQ ### Do I need an account anywhere? No. The plugin does not require registration, does not contact any external service, and works entirely on your own site. ### Where are responses stored? In your own WordPress database. Nothing is sent anywhere else. ### Does the spam protection use Google reCAPTCHA? No. It uses a hidden decoy field, a submission-timing check and a rate limit, all handled on your own server. Nothing is sent to any third party, so there is no external service to disclose and no consent banner to add. ### What does “one response per person” actually record? By WordPress account, it records the account id. By browser, a random value in a first-party cookie that means nothing outside your site. By network address, a salted one-way hash — **the address itself is never stored** and the hash cannot be turned back into one. Surveys set to anonymous record none of these. ### Can respondents answer without an internet connection? Yes, and it is switchable per survey. Open the survey in the builder and look under Survey Settings for “Collect responses offline”. When it is on, answers are stored on the respondent’s device and sync when the connection returns; the Offline Sync Monitor shows what is still queued. When it is off, nothing is stored on the device and no connectivity banner is shown. Surveys created before version 5.0.0 have it on. ### Does the plugin work without the paid extensions? Yes. Everything documented above is in this plugin and is not gated. The extensions add separate features; they do not unlock anything here. ### Do notification emails work with my SMTP plugin? Yes. The plugin sends through `wp_mail()`, which any SMTP plugin overrides in the normal way. If notifications are not arriving, that is almost always the site’s mail delivery rather than the survey: send failures are written to the plugin’s error log, visible on Stedica Surveys Plugin Health. ### Can I let someone build surveys without making them an administrator? Yes — the plugin adds a Survey Editor role with the survey capabilities and nothing else. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Stedica Surveys” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Stedica ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stedica/) [Translate “Stedica Surveys” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/stedica-surveys) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stedica-surveys/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/stedica-surveys/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/stedica-surveys/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/stedica-surveys/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 5.16.5 Sanitization fix from the plugin review. Structured answers saved by the autosave path were decoded from JSON and stored without being sanitized. The same answers arriving on final submit were already cleaned, so the two paths disagreed; both now run through the same sanitizer. Plain- text and malformed-JSON values on that path are sanitized too, as is a value that arrives as an array rather than a string. ## Meta * Version **5.16.5** * Last updated **6 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 8.0 or higher ** * Tags * [feedback](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feedback/)[forms](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/forms/) [offline](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/offline/)[questionnaire](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/questionnaire/) [survey](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/survey/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stedica-surveys/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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