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It’s quite a well-known fact that users’ feedback is of the great importance to the site owners. In addition to the fact that their feedback makes your site more attractive (because people like to read posts with a lot of comments and to express their opinion – they like being involved), it shows you how valuable and relevant your content is.

Thus it helps you to understand what the things that should be improved are.   Generally to get this extremely important feedback we give users the opportunity to leave the comments after each and every post. No doubt it’s a really nice idea. However there is one more thing that shouldn’t be underestimated – voting opportunity (voting functionality for posts).

Let’s discuss the most popular voting plugins for the WordPress that can help your blog to become even better.

Vote It Up!

Here are the common features of the given plugin:

• visitors can vote just in case they are allowed to
• you can very easy manage the post votes
• users can vote “for” or “against” your posts (you need to enable the feature) – two-way voting
• as soon as you activate this plugin the vote of published posts counts
• there is quite a decent amount of features to be customized   and etc.
• Installing Vote It Up!

You can get this plugin by pressing on “download” button here. As soon as you are done with that follow the steps:

• Upload the folder with the plugin into the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
• Login to your WordPress Administration Panel
• Activate the “Vote It Up” plugin from the plugins page in the WordPress dashboard. If there are no error messages, the plugin is properly installed.
• Customizing the plugin

There is a way even to change the themes for this plugin (Settings – Vote It Up – Theming):

Just above this “theming” section there are some options that can be configured as well:

Editing Vote It Up!

To edit the votes go to “Settings – Edit Votes”

Finally here is plugin’s look you get (there are options to choose from):

In case you need more detailed information about installation or configuration of the plugin, please visit this page.

WP-Polls 2.40

Given plugin is used to add an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. In addition to the fact that it will help you to include a poll in an easy way, you will be able to customize it as you want (using CSS, templates and many other implemented options).

• Installing WP-Polls 2.40

Please take a look at the author’s website and download the plugin.

It’s really easy to install it. There are just 3 steps you need to follow:

• open “wp-content/plugins” folder
• put the folder with the plugin
• activate WP-Polls in the administrative panel
  • Creating the polls

As soon as the plugin is activated go to “Polls – Add poll” to create a poll:

Here is the example of the poll you can make:

Once you have the polls you can manage them in the first tab of “Polls” menu – “Manage polls”:

Usage instructions and ReadMe

Please examine this ReadMe page if there are some things needed to be clarified about usage of this plugin.

Vote The Post

This plugin for WordPress allows users to vote on the individual posts on your blog or website.

Among its characteristic features the following ones should be emphasized:

• the voting system is based on a 5-star system
• after voting user gets immediate feedback that the vote was registered
• administrator can control the amount of times for the registration of vote from an IP address
• Installation of Vote The Post
• download the plugin from this page
• copy the vote-the-post folder  to your wp-content/plugins directory.
• go to “Plugins – Installed”, choose Vote The Post  and click “Activate”.

In addition to that there is one more thing you can do – go to “Settings – Vote the Post” and modify the number of times a particular IP address can vote per post.

That’s it. It’s very simple, isn’t it?

Let’s just see how it looks:

• before voting



• after voting

Hopefully you got some really nice and useful info from this post.