[NEW PLUGIN] Democracy AJAX Poll

  • Ia€?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 didna€?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 doesna€?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: https://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, ita€?s been thoroughly tested by around 10 people without problems, so ita€?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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  • Love this plugin ??

    It would be nice to be able to display results of older polls on a seperete page. Can this be done?

    Thanks

    Thank you for the link, jalenack. I’ll be trying out the plugin asap.

    Thread Starter jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    Version 1.1 is here!

    Alright I’ve implemented the archives feature. It is a simple function that will neatly output all past polls. Same download link as above. Read the readme for more specific instructions.

    Man this is awesome!

    Thanks for sharing! ??

    Just two days after I went through the other poll plugin, tweaking various bits to make it appear the way that I wanted & then editing it to produce XHTML 1.1 valid code, I was looking for something else & discovered this plugin that did everything that I had wanted to do in the first place. (The reason I didn’t discover yours earlier was that I’d downloaded the other plugin months ago – actually modified it to work in 1.5, as at that time it would not.

    Excellent

    Thread Starter jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    Hey mat8iou,

    Democracy’s AJAX won’t function in xhtml-served-as-xhtml mode, unfortunately. At least not in FF. Although if you just take out the javascript reference, you can get it to work sans-ajax.

    Norway, glad you like it ??

    Looks nice, thx!

    i really like this plug in
    but now i am getting a strange error…

    this error message after pressing “vote”

    The requested URL /content/fuck/wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php was not found on this server.

    although it had worked before once!

    i havent changed it, i just don’t know?!

    Thread Starter jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    Hey myeviltwin,

    That is a very stange error. I tried going to that URL on your site and everything worked fine. The file seems to be intact and functional. Don’t know what to say!

    Any more details to add? Is it sorted out now? I haven’t much of a clue. Good luck ??

    no, still getting the error…

    it worked for you?

    dear!
    i thought it could be the structure of my url
    i use a subdomain routed to /content/fuck/
    and the plug-in seems seems to point to /content/fuck/content/fuck/wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php
    (doubling the first two directories), but i am not sure.

    maybe the <?php echo $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’].$x; ?> is the problem and i should replace it with static urls?

    or maybe not?

    the admin panel tells me that the poll has only 1 vote so far, which i am sure i did myself, so maybe it didn’t work correctly for you?

    I SOLVED IT!
    YES!

    is there any way to make umlauts appear correctly?
    i don’t have a clue of php, so i’m helpless ??

    great plug in and it’s working fine. However, I went to delete an answer and unfortunately ended up clearing votes from another answer I wanted to keep! I feel terrible. Is there anything I can do to add votes to a specific answer?
    Thank you.
    Here’s the poll: https://bikeportland.org/polls

    Thread Starter jalenack

    (@jalenack)

    jmaus, I’ve emailed you back. Hopefully that helps.

    myeviltwin, oh. I tried accessing the file directly. Do you have some weird directory voodoo you’re doing. What is your WP url? it looks like you’re using your root. Not really sure.

    This may fix it: changing the $jal_wp_url . Search for that in the democracy.php file. It should be defined twice iright next to eachother, with the top one commented out. Try switching them so that the other one is commented out and uncomment the one that’s commented now. I’m not sure, but there might be more detailed instructions in the readme. Good luck

    Thanks, Andrew! That border: 0; bit did the trick!

    Now if only multiple polls could be active at the same time… I’d love for people to be able to vote in past polls…

    jalenack:

    Thank you. Not only for this plug-in (which works great!) but your support was quick and right on. I (we!) fixed my little problem and I’m looking forward to future versions (no pressure though).

    Thanks.

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