How to set up polls

To make a poll for your visitors to use, first follow the instructions here to activate it. Next, you’ll want to set up your poll. In your admin area, you’ll see a new menu item called Polls. Click it.

The Polls menu has a few sub-menu items.

• Manage polls
• Add poll
• Poll options
• Poll usage

Click on "Add Poll".  Here you’ll see there’s space for a question. Fill this out with your poll question. Below are spots for two answers. This is handy for yes/no polls. If you want more options, you can click on "add answer" to add more choices.

The next set of options is if you want your visitors to be able to choose more than one answer.

You can then choose if you want your poll to expire after a certain time, meaning visitors can no longer vote after a set date, or you can leave it open forever.

Click "add poll" to save. If you have already dragged the poll widget to your sidebar, you should then see your new poll there on the front page of your blog.

You can also embed a poll in a post or page. The "poll usage" menu item explains further on how to do this, but it’s quite simple. Just insert [ poll=2 ]  in your post where the number is the ID number of your poll. You can find this ID number the "manage polls" tab.

The poll options menu allows further customization if you really want to get fancy.