How to find and use WordPress survey plugins

There are various plugins available if you want to create a survey on WordPress. The prices and the scope of the different options vary greatly.

Maybe when you hear the term `survey´ you first think of political opinion polls or votes, but this doesn’t have to be the case. With the ap­pro­pri­ate WordPress plugins it makes it easier to reach customers and clients for your website, blog or shop and benefit from valuable feedback. These surveys enable you to make direct contact and strengthen the bond between users and your website. You can ask potential customers what they’re in­ter­ested in and adapt your own services. If you create a survey with WordPress on your WordPress site, both sides benefit.

The biggest advantage of a WordPress survey is its sim­pli­city. With the right WordPress survey plugins you can reach your target audience quickly and easily and get their feedback in just a few clicks. The comment function or WordPress contact form plugins aren’t really suitable for this purpose. This is because visitors have to enter their name and email address to submit their feedback and it also takes a lot longer for you to analyse. If you do not want to use plugins or work with WordPress, you can also use online survey tools although the surveys are usually im­ple­men­ted via the provider’s website and not on your own website.

When looking for the right WordPress survey plugin for your purposes, you may find that there are quite a few suitable options. It is important to know what to expect from one of these plugins so you can include it in your shortlist:

• Intuitive operation: The plugin shouldn’t be too hard to use without much prior knowledge and be easy to get to grips with. It also helps if it isn’t too difficult to install. Your website visitors are obviously in­ter­ested in what you’re offering and are no doubt happy that you’re providing a feedback function, but if it is not self-ex­plan­at­ory, it won’t be used.
   
• Re­spons­ive design: While this re­quire­ment is by no means unique to WordPress surveys, it plays a par­tic­u­larly important role here. Many of your users will access your website from their smart­phone. This is why it makes sense for your survey plugin to be re­spons­ive and work on all devices.
   
• Reas­on­able pricing: From the free basic tool to the premium solution with monthly or annual billing, there’s every kind of WordPress survey plugin available. There is nothing wrong with choosing a com­mer­cial solution, if it’s worth the money and the costs are covered by your earnings. For example, if you want to create a survey on WordPress just once, then a free solution makes most sense.
   
• Cus­tom­isa­tion options: The extension should def­in­itely match the layout of your website and offer you various cus­tom­iz­a­tion options. Only if you can tailor the WordPress survey exactly to your needs, will you get the desired results you’re hoping for.
   
• Ana­lys­a­tion options: If the survey is created on WordPress, you should have quick and easy access to the results. Only then can you properly analyse the feedback of your online survey and take the results into con­sid­er­a­tion.

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YOP Poll is a simple, very intuitive solution if you are looking for a WordPress ques­tion­naire plugin. While the scope can’t be compared to the more costly options, this plugin offers more than enough for oc­ca­sion­al surveys. It’s easy to un­der­stand how to use the tool as well as implement the surveys. It’s also possible to schedule when the survey should go live and you can have the results displayed in real-time. YOP Poll can also be cus­tom­ised visually and includes several security features to prevent abuse. A filter function also allows the results to be analysed very precisely. Another handy feature is that you can also use the plugin to allow only selected groups of visitors to take a survey on WordPress.

Quiz and Survey Master is a free WordPress survey plugin that offers numerous ready-made survey options. By con­nect­ing the tool with Google Analytics or email programs, you can draw much more valuable data from a simple survey and use it in the best possible way. As the name suggests, quiz functions are also part of the tool’s scope, which is why you don’t need an ad­di­tion­al WordPress quiz plugin. Quiz and Survey Master can be perfectly embedded into your website through numerous layout options. The plugin also offers many add-ons, but you have to pay for some of them.

The For­mid­able Form Builder is a much more soph­ist­ic­ated option and offers a lot of pos­sib­il­it­ies. Besides simple surveys, there are also email forms, support feedback or reports. Even the free basic version is well equipped and offers various options. Despite its size, the plugin is very fast and allows surveys with multiple pages to be created. Due to the diverse cus­tom­isa­tion options, For­mid­able Form Builder can be optimally in­teg­rated into almost any website. In the rather expensive premium variant, it’s possible to add a CRM system.

Poll, Survey & Quiz is a very com­pre­hens­ive solution if you are looking for a WordPress survey plugin. The tool has numerous cus­tom­isa­tion options and impresses with its modern design. Images can also be inserted into the polls. There are many templates for surveys and polls, but also lead gen­er­a­tion, content marketing and email no­ti­fic­a­tions can be im­ple­men­ted via the plugin. Various security measures are included to exclude fraud attempts and spam. Analysing the results can be done in real time and operation is very simple. In addition to the slimmer basic version, there are several paid packages. These are partly based on the number of in­ter­ac­tions.

Modal Survey is a paid solution, which in com­par­is­on is nev­er­the­less cheaper than many other premium options. The WordPress survey plugin is already very popular, which could have something to do with the unlimited number of surveys and quizzes among other things. The results can also be displayed in charts or per­cent­ages if desired. The export function also comes in useful. Modal Survey can be in­teg­rated well into any website and is very user-friendly. The design options for all surveys on WordPress are im­press­ive even compared to many more expensive options.

8. Under `Results´ you determine when and if results should be displayed.
    
9. At the top right you can now click on `Preview´ to display your survey. It also gives you the pos­sib­il­ity to check if all settings are correct.
    
10. If everything looks good, publish your survey to WordPress via the `Publish´ button or schedule it to be published at a certain time.