Inserting an quiz, opinion or feedback poll on a page has been very popular in past courses.
The Pinnion widget links to a commonly used poll toll has a WordPress plugin that works well on a single-author blog.
For multi-author sites, like yours, I recommend you use your Princeton Google account to create a poll using Google Forms.
You need first to create your form in Google, and set its access to public. A Google form makes a nice-looking interface to a very simple spreadsheet, through which people can answer questions, give their opinions, or reply to an invitation. In Google-land, it puts a pretty, formatted poll/survey/invitation thing into a Gmail, and your readers can answer directly in the mail message; WordPress requires a plugin to do something similar. We installed it for you, and you are the first testers.
So, one you have your Form, and the public URL to the form, you can do one of two things.
1. Long-form code
Enclose the code “gform form= ‘put url here’ ” in square brackets, and insert your Google Form URL between the single apostrophes.
Here’s an example:
The other way to do it is to use the tools on your Dashboard left menu to link a Google Form.
2. short-form link
Select “Add new Google Form” from the Google Forms menu:
An entry-window opens, where you can give your Google Form a title, and can paste in the same URL you used above. Those are the only two fields you need to fill in. Remember, the Google Form needs to be publicly shared, not private. The whole word can’t see your form unless they know the URL, so you’re not really making it “public.”
Using the WordPress Google Form tools will result in a list showing all the Google Forms on the WordPress site, with a special shortcode generated by WordPress for each form. Obviously, you need to name your Form in a way that distinguishes it from other author’s Forms:
Copy the short code for the Form you want, and paste it into our page.
No matter what method you chose, the end result will look the same.
The plug-in developer warns that the Long Form is being phased out in favor of the Short Code, but for now, it doesn’t matter which one you use.
So here’s an example of an embedded form. It’s in invitation to an event, but could be a poll or survey instead. I pasted in the short code, which you can see if you look at this post in Text mode.
(code pasted below)
[wpgform id=’162′]