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The SurveyGizmo WordPress Survey Plugin
SurveyGizmo’s WordPress Survey Plugin allows you to easily create online surveys and embed them in your WordPress site. Even more, you can see your survey responses within the WordPress dashboard. Our survey tool allows you to create surveys, polls, and quizzes and web forms and customize them with your brand’s look and feel. No coding required!
Post Your Survey on Your WordPress Site
Start collecting your survey responses immediately. You can view responses within WordPress using our WordPress Survey Plugin. Data is updated and exported any time you want, available on your demand. Each time you run a report or an export, the most current survey responses will be included. Export your results to Excel or SPSS. Or post your results to another API.
Requirements
- A Free SurveyGizmo Account – Need one? Get it here.
- A server supporting PHP, and CURL or fopen (note: works with Windows servers as of 1.0.1)
- WordPress 2.0 and above (may work on 1.5)
- A free SurveyGizmo User API key – You’ll find and activate your survey API key by logging in and going to your Plug-Ins page under My Account.
Customizable Surveys
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Interactive Reporting
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Survey Editor
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Intuitive Dashboard
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What can you do with SurveyGizmo and WordPress?
- Run everything from polls to multi-page surveys right from within your WordPress posts and pages
- Build a custom and full-featured contact form or lead generation form for your “Contact Us” page
- Take results from a survey/form and post them to another API, such as Constant Contact, Sales Force, Aweber, etc.
Try it out for free – no credit card required.14 day free trial
Installing
Method 1
- Download the WordPress Survey Plugin and save it to your computer. Within WordPress, go under Plugins > Add New > Upload (small link at the top). Upload the .zip file to your WordPress install.
- Activate the plugin on your admin plugins page, then add your API key to your
WordPress Options->SurveyGizmo page by clicking on SurveyGizmo under Settings. - You’re done! Visit your dashboard’s SurveyGizmo link and monitor your surveys.
Method 2
- Unzip the download and drop the “surveygizmo” folder in your plugin directory. Make sure to put the whole surveygizmo folder into the plugins directory — not the individual files.
- Activate the plugin on your admin plugins page, then add your API key to your
WordPress Options->SurveyGizmo page - You’re done! Visit your dashboard’s SurveyGizmo tab and monitor your surveys.
Using the Survey Plugin
You can integrate surveys into your content in two ways.
- Insert the survey link and have surveys open in their own windows.
- Use the iFrame embed link, which will dynamically insert the survey into your blog post or page.
(We’ll provide the links for both methods, you just copy and paste the code)
Here are the detailed steps, if you’re into that sort of thing:
- Click the Create Survey Button from the dashboard (this will take you to the survey builder)
- Build your survey, add questions, and customize your look and feel
- Publish your survey – This is when we generate the link you’ll insert into your page or post.
- On the dashboard, hover your mouse over the survey you’re working on and click publishing to show the HTML Survey Link and the iFrame Survey Link
- Cut & Paste the Publish Link into the HTML of your WordPress page or post.
Make sure to add the link/javascript to the plain (HTML) text editor, not the rich text editor. - You’re done!
Tested as working through WordPress version 3.0
Plugin Updates
The SurveyGizmo WordPress Plugin is self-aware when it comes to needing upgrades. When we release a new version, you will see a link on the Dashboard screen suggesting you update. Updates can be found on this page when available.
Change Log
- 1.7 (June 7, 2010)
- Fixed encoding for non-US characters (now UTF-8) for proper display on the Dashboard
- Fixed ‘create new survey’ link on Dashboard
- Added a new column: Project Type (Standard Survey, Poll, Form, Quiz)
- 1.6 (April 20th, 2010)
- API call adjusted for new formatting per SurveyGizmo API specifications
- 1.5 (April 15th, 2010)
- Updated plugin version to match with SurveyGizmo 3.0 and API version 1.5
- Added link from ’settings’ page to Dashboard page
- 1.2 (August 12th, 2009)
- Updated compatibility with security measures for plugins.
- Changes provided by Victor Mas – pixelcraftco.com (Thanks!)
- 1.0.1
- Added fopen for people who don’t have CURL and fixed a couple bugs
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