[NEW PLUGIN] Democracy AJAX Poll

  • jalenack

    (@jalenack)


    18 years, 10 months ago

    I’m announcing my second ever WordPress plugin, Democracy. Democracy adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog. It grew out of frustration with the only other WordPress polling option, WP-poll. It didn’t have valid markup, it was clunky, and it required one heck of an installation process. So I decided to create my own, using WP-poll as a reference. This plugin uses AJAX for quick sending and loading of poll data, although it doesn’t depend on javascript to function, like my other plugin. It is fully functional in non-javascript environments, meaning it will work in ALL browsers. The AJAX part is tested to work in Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE6/Win. The poll is in my sidebar, so go ahead and see for yourself.

    For more information and the download: http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/

    It also has a full-featured admin panel, which allows one to manage their polls. You can activate, edit, delete, and add new polls from the admin panel. It is also harder to ballot-stuff than WP-poll. It uses cookies as well as IP logging to prevent users from working spamming the ballot box.

    And Installation is a piece of cake. Just upload it to your server, activate it, and place a template tag in your theme where you want the poll to appear.

    Note, this version is Alpha. However, it’s been thoroughly tested by around 10 people without problems, so it’s nothing like my shoutbox plugin that was so terrible in the early days. Please report any errors you encounter with it in the comments below. If you like it, saying thank you is all I ask.

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  • webmok

    (@webmok)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Hi.
    How do you integrate this voting-system, which by the way is fantastic, with the pages that you’ve created. You can’t use that php-line <?php jal_democracy(); ?> in Manage > Pages 🙁

    Kahil

    (@kahil)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    as far as i can tell and from what i’ve tried, you can only use this plugin in a sidebar and not in a post or page…

    eddie_wp

    (@eddie_wp)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Great plugin, thanks Andrew!

    I have two questions…

    1.) Is it possible to stop the voting (or expire)? So people can only see the resultat from the poll. Example: For a week the people can vote on myne poll, but after that i want only that u can see the resultat from the past week.

    2.) Can i archive the poll?

    Greetings from the Netherlands,

    Eddie

    tanster

    (@tanster)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Andrew, Democracy is fabulous, thank you!

    I use it on pages, here are some examples:

    – Poll on a page: http://www.officetally.com/?page_id=79
    – Archive on a page: http://www.officetally.com/?page_id=76

    To use Democracy on a WordPress page (as opposed to the sidebar), I did the following:

    1. Installed and activated the plugin PHPExec.

    2. In the WordPress 2.0 admin panel, go to Options > Writing, and clear the “Users should use the visual rich editor by default” checkbox.

    3. Go to Users > Your Profile, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and clear the “Use the visual rich editor when writing” checkbox.

    4. Create a page as usual, and then insert a poll by entering the code

    <phpcode><?php jal_democracy(1); ?></phpcode>

    Hope that helps!
    🙂 tanster

    gunlib

    (@gunlib)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    OOPS.

    Does anybody have the latest version of Democracy they can share with me? Apparently the plugin is no longer available at Jalenack; people have been commenting about their inability to download it and the author has not responded in some time. TIA –

    gunlib

    (@gunlib)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Never mind – I emailed the author and he fixed the link. Thx –

    stevemojo

    (@stevemojo)

    18 years ago

    Anyone having trouble with Democracy firing up php.exe processes that never close?

    tfish77

    (@tfish77)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Does anyone know if this works with WP 2.0?

    maplewoods

    (@maplewoods)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    How would I disable IP checking for the Democracy Poll?

    My application is for a situation where a large group of users come in on the same Public IP.

    Would be nice to have a Click Option to allow the Admin to choose to restrict duplicate voting by either:

    1) cookie or

    2)by IP or

    3)both.

    Thanks

    thesportsguru

    (@thesportsguru)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    Hey everyone. Just installed this plug in but am having an issue. I only get 1 response in my poll. No matter how many answers are given, only the first shows up.

    Any ideas?

    idner

    (@idner)

    17 years, 8 months ago

    This plugin seems to have a problem with new versions of mysql. It doesn’t appear to install correctly.

    CoFOX

    (@coyotech)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Im having some problems with this plugin could someone help plz. http://tecoyosturrup.freehostia.com/wordpress/index.php

    If u look at the poll in ie u could see some extra space between the democracy i can’t figure out why this is happening I’ve tryed #dem…. {margin:0;} but that doesn’t work.

    michaelbb

    (@michaelbb)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    If I am not mistaken, you mite have a small flaw, when I click on “www.gumball-3000.com/rally/” and vote then hit back and then Ctrl, Shift, Del and than go back to the above site I can vote all over again. For some that may not be a problem. I just thought I would mention this thats all.

    The browser I use is FF and that is the one I did to test out the voting poll, you may have some security in your poll that either wasnt enabled or could prevent what I did, I dont know.

    I just thought I would mention it thats all

    rschumaker

    (@rschumaker)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    This is a fantastic plug in! The only thing I would love to see is the ability to have multiple polls active at the same time. Thanks for the hard work.

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