by Lester Chan 4.2 (136 reviews)

WP-Polls

Name: WP-Polls
Rating: 4.2 (136 reviews)
Author: Lester Chan

Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress's blog post/page.

WP-Polls ranks #884 among WordPress.org plugins with 40,000+ active installations, is #49 of 2,578 in the Contact Forms category, a 4.2/5 rating from 136 reviews, and was last updated Sep 2, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v3.0.2 Current Version v3.0.2

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 02 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#49 of 2,578 in Contact Forms Top 5% by installs Downloads -84.7% this week Actively maintained

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Support Resolved

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Rating

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Review 4.2 out of 5

4.2 (136 reviews)

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Total Progress 33.6%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.2

136 reviews

Overall 84%

93 (68%)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

10 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Jan 21, 2025

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.77.3 (closed)

CVE-2024-13426 · Fixed in v2.77.3
Jan 21, 2025 UNPATCHED

WP-Polls [wp-polls] <= 2.77.3 (unfixed + closed)

CVE-2025-68081 · No fix released
Oct 31, 2022

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.76.0 (closed)

CVE-2022-1581 · Fixed in v2.76.0
Oct 5, 2022

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.77.0 (closed)

CVE-2022-40130 · Fixed in v2.77.0
Aug 26, 2019

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.72 (closed)

CVE-2015-9352 · Fixed in v2.72
Jul 29, 2016

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.73.1 (closed)

CVE-2016-10936 · Fixed in v2.73.1
Aug 14, 2015

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.71 (closed)

Fixed in v2.71
Aug 14, 2015

WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.71 (closed)

Fixed in v2.71
WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.73.1 (closed)

Fixed in v2.73.1
WP-Polls [wp-polls] < 2.70 (closed)

Fixed in v2.70

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.0.2
Last Updated: Sep 02, 2026
Requires WP: 6.8+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
Author: Lester Chan

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.2
Reviews: 136
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 67%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who want to add interactive polls to their site. It solves the need for a customizable, AJAX-based polling system that can be inserted into posts or pages and supports multiple answer selection.

AJAX poll system
Customizable via templates and CSS
Multiple selection of answers
Insert polls into posts/pages

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP-Polls

It is because of rounding issues. To make it always round up to 100%, the last poll's answer will get the remainding percentage added to it. To enable this feature, add this to your theme's functions.php: add_filter( 'wp_polls_round_percentage', '__return_true' );

The stylesheet and the voting script load only on pages that show a poll, a polls archive or the poll widget; a page without one carries neither. WP-Polls will load wp-polls.css from your theme's directory if it exists. If it does not exist, it loads the css/wp-polls.css that ships with WP-Polls. This will allow you to upgrade WP-Polls without worrying about overwriting your polls styles that you have created. A theme copy made before 3.0.0 has no poll bar rules in it, because they used to be generated by PHP. See My poll bars lost their styling above. My own code renders a poll and the page loads no stylesheet or script The head pass looks for the poll widget, a [poll] or [page_polls] shortcode and the two blocks, and anything rendering after it — a template tag, a poll in a loop page — asks for the assets as it renders and gets them from the footer. Neither reaches poll markup fetched over admin-ajax.php or the REST API into a page that itself shows no poll: the fetch has no footer to enqueue into, and the page carried nothing for the head to find. The symptom is a poll that will not vote, under a "Loading ..." that never goes away. Say so from the page that will hold the poll: add_filter( 'wp_polls_needs_assets', '__return_true' ); Anywhere the poll can be predicted this early will do. Code that already runs later in the page — a the_content filter inserting a placeholder, say — can call WP_Polls_Display::request_assets() instead, which is the same request the render paths make and is picked up by the footer pass.

Courtesy Of TreedBox.com Set --wp-polls-bar-background on the answer rather than styling the bar itself. The bar reads that custom property, so this works whichever poll bar style is configured, and it keeps working if the markup changes again. Add to the end of your wp-polls.css: .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(01) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #8fa0c5; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(02) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #ffff88; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(03) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #ff8a3b; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(04) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #a61e2a; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(05) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #4ebbff; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(06) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #fbca54; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(07) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #aad34f; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(08) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #66cc9a; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(09) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #98cbcb; } .wp-polls-ul li:nth-child(10) { --wp-polls-bar-background: #a67c52; } .wp-polls-ul li:hover { --wp-polls-bar-background: #ff0000; } .wp-polls .wp-polls-bar-fill { transition: background-color 0.7s ease-in-out; } Before 3.0.0 this was written against .pollbar, the single element the bar used to be. That class no longer exists, so the old snippet colours nothing.