Hi All,
I'd like to add polls to my custom post types. My site is a directory of companies and I would like to add a rating poll (not sure what exactly yet) to each entry. How would I go about adding the post ID to the poll? And then display results (admin and front end) for the poll based on the post ID? I'm sure there are a couple ways to do this and wanted to get some help before starting in on this.
Thanks for the help!
Steve Henty
Administrator
It's a great idea but it would take a bit of customization I'm afraid. You might want to approach it like this...
Add the post id to the lead meta on form submission or just use the source_url property of the lead object. Then filter the entries inside GFPolls::gpoll_get_data() and alter the way the data is cached so there's one entry per post_id. Once that's done you'll need to filter GFPolls::gpoll_get_results() to display the right data for the given lead object.
I hope that's of some help to you.
Yes that does help. I think I will probably just create a a simple poll form plugin for my use. I think it will work out a bit better in the end as I also would like to provide poll results to users on the front end. I am working on adding front end control for the company entries on the site so that the owner of the company can update the information for their company. And I was thinking on having several polls for each entry. Say there are 3 polls per entry, after a user takes Poll #1, then poll #2 would show up and so on. Using my own plugin would make it a lot easier in doing this and storing/displaying the results by using my own DB table. Thanks for the information and helping me decide the best approach for this. Do you think this kind of functionality would/could be considered for inclusion in the poll add-on in the future?
Steve Henty
Administrator
It's definitely an interesting idea. I'll give it some more thought and I'll mention it to the team. Thank you!
