It is a well-known fact that one of the best ways to engage users on your website and gather significant user insights, is through polls, forms and surveys. For websites built on the WordPress platform, there is an abundance of free plugins you can take advantage of.
However, to save you from the tiring effort of searching the best WordPress plugins for polls and surveys, I have gathered here some of the top choices I’ve come to know, use and experience.
Take a look at the following list of recommendations regarding the most useful WordPress plugins to create forms, polls and surveys, that I have personally created for the readers, and let me know what you think.
1. WP-Polls
If you’re a WordPress beginner and want to add simple surveys on your blog, then here’s your plugin to create and add polls. WP-Polls allows customizing the polls via templates and custom styles, and along with these options to design polls, it also supports selecting multiple answers and displaying the stats.
It’s powered by AJAX and runs responsive on mobile devices with instant notifications and easy poll management.
2. YOP Poll
If you’re looking for a simple poll plugin to start with, YOP Poll is the plugin for you. It can be used to run single or multiple answer polls on your blog or website. The plugin allows to display or hide information, sort the information, manage results, view the total votes or voters and set vote permissions.
Moreover, it allows scheduling polls, archiving them and also logging and banning the poll activities easily.
3. Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings
“Crowdsignal Polls & Ratings”, previously called as PollDaddy, is a multilingual poll maker plugin that helps you create, manage and rate polls within WordPress. You can create unlimited, customized polls in 20 different styles, view results for your polls and also schedule a closing date for polls.
Additionally, you can display or hide the polls’ results to visitors and even embed them on other websites (let’s say for marketing purposes).
4. Watu
Last but not the least, we have Watu – a super flexible quiz maker that helps you make touch-friendly quizzes and exams. The quizzes can have single or multiple choice questions or open-ended questions, and you can embed them anywhere on your blog or site using shortcodes.
Watu can display answers or participants at the end of the quiz and shows results with a bar chart, and supports sharing the quiz on Facebook.
5. OpinionStage
OpinionStage is one of its kind all-in-one plugin that helps create a lot of things such as ballots, quizzes, surveys, forms, etc. You can allow visitors to fill the questionnaire anonymously or ask for their IDs, filter results, integrate social networks, etc.
Additionally, this multi-lingual plugin lets you add your own logo, schedule forms to close automatically as well as capture forms’ results and check detailed statistics.
6. Quiz And Survey Master
If you’re looking for a full-featured and extensible quiz maker, then Quiz and Survey Master is the right choice for you. The plugin helps you create attractive quizzes and surveys with customization and categorization of questions.
It offers features such as scoring methods, email notifications and configuration options to track time, set limits and schedule quizzes, and supports add-ons to enhance functionality.
7. Perfect Survey
“Perfect Survey” adds the ability to create unlimited surveys form and polls. You can use it, for example, to collect your customer feedbacks of your product or services or, maybe, do a market research.
The plugin features a drag-n-drop interface that makes it intutive to use, also a built-in analytics that allows you to view the data collected from the survey and poll form. It’s an overall a solid and well-designed plugin for WordPress. Easy to use, no ads, no clutter, just perfect.
8. Contact Form 7
If you’re looking for a simple, flexible and multilingual plugin, Contact Form 7 is just for you. The most-downloaded contact form plugin helps you manage and customize multiple contact forms and their mail templates.
You can easily insert various types of form elements per your needs and also a CAPTCHA to prevent bots from submitting your forms. That’s not all, it even supports few third-party add-ons to extend its functionality.
9. amoForms
This list isn’t complete without an innovative plugin like amoForms, which allows you to simply create and style multi-page forms using its drag-and-drop interface. It offers various stylized layouts for the visual editor, and allows editing every detail including the appearance and colors of the form fields.
It supports CAPTCHAs to prevent bots, integration with Google Analytics and form submission using AJAX.
10. Ninja Forms
Ninja Forms is no doubt the ultimate form creation tool in this list that comes without a price. It helps you build regular or complex forms in minutes using its drag-and-drop interface.
Like Contact Form 7, this plugin puts no limitation on creating any number of forms, fields, emails, actions or submissions. Additionally, it allows to customize emails, modify fields and even export them for reuse, and also offers several anti-spam options.
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Formidable Forms
Formidable Forms is another flexible form plugin which supports premium add-ons to add more features. It helps create unlimited contact forms including multi-column ones, polls and surveys.
You can use its built-in templates or create custom forms using its visual form designing tool. Moreover, you can send email notifications, import and export the templates, integrate spam controllers and create multi-page forms (pro).
Contact Forms by Cimatti
Contact Forms is another simple contact form maker. What makes it unique is that it offers a set of APIs that developers can use to customize and add features. The plugin helps you design forms with various ready-to-use field types, custom response messages and email notifications using its drag and drop WYSIWYG editor.
The plugin also features export utility, advanced filter options and support for reCAPTCHA.
Contact Form by BestWebSoft
If you’re looking for an unsophisticated contact form plugin with shortcode support, then Contact Form can help you create various types of forms, validating form data and sending messages via emails.
You can customize style and content of its forms using pre-build templates, and display them anywhere on your blog or site using shortcodes.
Form Maker
You can’t ignore such a powerful plugin like Form Maker that helps create multi-page forms using built-in templates with customizable fields, styles and themes. You can create highly flexible and responsive forms with its drag and drop interface.
It supports shortcodes for questionnaires, and add-ons to enhance the plugin and add more features.
Contact Form Maker
If you’re looking forward to build smart forms with conditional logic, then Contact Form Maker is what you need. With its templates, you can create simple as well as complex forms having unlimited types of fields.
You can easily add custom buttons as well as Google Maps fields to your forms. Its backend interface is easy to manage, supports integrating PayPal in your forms, and the forms are secured from bots using CAPTCHAs.
Wrapping Up
That’s all about the WordPress plugins that help you create forms, quizzes, polls and surveys to engage visitors and generate leads in easy way. If you’ve already applied this trick and look forward for advanced tricks, check out our guide to create beautiful landing pages and showcase of some of the best WordPress plugins to create landing pages.
What do you prefer to engage and increase visitors on your website? Do you know more such plugins for WordPress? Let us know using the comments.
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