{"id":175,"date":"2008-11-19T21:20:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-11-19T21:20:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T15:50:12","slug":"pollin-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/pollin-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollin WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wordpress_logo-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"WordPress Logo\" width=\"183\" height=\"145\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136 intro\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"><strong class=\"highlight\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/tools\/wordpress\/plugins\/pollin\/\">Pollin wordpress plugin<\/a> will let you add polls<\/strong> to your blog. It can be shown to your <strong class=\"highlight\">visitors who will be able to vote<\/strong> in the poll. You can add the poll in a post by including the html comment [POLLIN 1] in the post. Here 1 is the ID of the poll to be shown.<\/p>\n<p>If you are new to this blog, this is the Plugin Week. I am going to release <strong class=\"highlight\">one wordpress plugin each day, every day for one week<\/strong>(ie. Monday to Friday). Each day you will get a new plugin by me. This is the third plugin in this series. The earlier ones were&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/eventr-wordpress-plugin\/\">Eventr Plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/autofields-wordpress-plugin\/\">Autofields WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">Note 1:<\/strong> Pollin is a beta plugin(as are most of the plugins released in the Plugin Week) &#8211; so watch out for bugs. And trust me, there will be a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">Note 2:<\/strong> I would recommend that you don&#8217;t install Pollin right now. It has not yet been accepted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/pollin\/\">WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>. You can install it using the zip file I provide below &#8211; but then there will be some problems with auto updating of the plugin. Its <strong class=\"highlight\">better to wait until WordPress accepts the plugin before installing it<\/strong>. [<strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: WordPress have accepted it &#8211; feel free to install this plugin now.]<\/p>\n<h2>Installation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.wordpress.org\/plugin\/pollin.zip\">zipped file<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/pollin\/\">Pollin page in WordPress Plugin Repository<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Extract and upload the contents of the folder to \/wp-contents\/plugins\/ folder<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Plugin management page of WordPress admin section and enable the Pollin plugin<\/li>\n<li>Go to the Polls Management page(Tools &gt; Manage Poll) to create or edit Polls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Screenshots<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pollin_all_polls-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Admin Interface For Polls\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pollin_form-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Edit Question Form\" width=\"485\" height=\"514\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pollin_result-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Poll Result\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-178\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>See it in Action<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.binnyva.com\/plugin\/pollin-plugin-demo-page\/\">Pollin Plugin Demo Page<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Feedback<\/h2>\n<p>If you have any suggestions or notice any problems with the plugin, post it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.binnyva.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=13\">Pollin forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes peeled for the next plugin &#8211; to be released tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p><strong class=\"highlight\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/tools\/wordpress\/plugins\/pollin\/\">Pollin wordpress plugin<\/a> will let you add polls<\/strong> to your blog. It can be shown to your <strong class=\"highlight\">visitors who will be able to vote<\/strong> in the poll. You can add the poll in a post by including the html comment &lt;!&#8211; POLLIN 1 &#8211;&gt; in the post. Here 1 is the ID of the poll to be shown.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,31],"tags":[212,214,216,217],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-scripts","category-wordpress","tag-plugin","tag-plugin-week","tag-poll","tag-pollin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bin-co.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}