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Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Reminder to self: check if the WordPress.com classic editor is still alive and still supports adding Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) polls (Crowdsignal is part of Automattic, the WordPress.com parent company).

From [Wayback/Archive] Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress (I made the areas that are important to me in bold):

The Classic Editor

If you are a long time user of this plugin and you still use the classic post editor, the best way to create polls is through your Crowdsignal account where you have a number of different ways to share polls (and surveys). However, up to version 2.2.6, this plugin had an “Add Poll” button above the post editor that opened a very basic poll editor. That “Add Poll” button has since been removed but if you would still like to use it, open up the wp-admin dashboard on your WordPress site. Add “admin.php?page=polls&action=create-poll” to the end of the URL, after “wp-admin/” so it looks like https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=polls&action=create-poll and you will see the old poll editor. Bookmark that URL if you still want to use that poll editor. We do not recommend using version 2.2.6 of the plugin as you will miss out on many bug fixes and new features added since then.

Some additions:

  1. you can embed the poll in the classic editor by embedding this in your classic page (replace # with the ID of your poll):
  2. you can also add admin.php?page=polls&action=edit-poll&poll=#  to the wp-admin/ URL (replace # with the ID of your poll) so it looks like https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=polls&action=edit-poll&poll=#;
    this allows you to edit a poll if you know the ID.
  3. there is a way to get to your old polldaddy polls however: on the above page you see your polls;
  4. for both classic polldaddy polls *and* new crowdsignal polls you can replace # with the ID in https://polldaddy.com/poll/#, https://poll.fm/#/embed or https://poll.fm/# to get to the poll directly (this allows you for sharing on other social media)
  5. for
  6. for new crowdsignal polls you can likely also use in the wp-admin based classic editor
  7. for old polldaddy polls you can likely also use in the wp-admin based classic editor
  8. you can also add admin.php?page=polls to the wp-admin/ URL so it looks like https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=polls;
    this will only show you the polls you created in your blog using the classic wp-admin interface, but only the crowdsignal polls (not old polldaddy polls) and allows you to create new polls as well

The last point (8.) got me on a confusing queste that started by only seeing one poll in the wp-admin based interface which I knew was from the non-wp-admin based Gutenberg block editor:


(the /p-125450 is the post ID, not the poll ID)

if you hover over it, then new actions appear:

Clicking on the Results brings you to a Crowdsignal page where you need to logon. if you logon using your WordPress.com credentials, then you can navigate to app.crowdsignal.com/dashboard see all the polls you ever created in your blog including the old polldaddy ones (or stay in the app.crowdsignal.com/dashboard?msg=wpcc that logon sometimes redirects to):

Important to note:

  1. The ones marked “My Content” are polls from the classic wp-admin user interface clicking on them gives back the poll ID in the URL which you can use in the above WordPress URL
  2. The ones marked with your blog name (in my case “wiert.me“) are from the new Gutenberg block-editor interface; clicking on them does not reveal a poll ID in the URL, only the post-ID which you can edit in the Gutenberg block-editor

Basically the new Gutenberg polls do appear in the wp-admin overview and cannot be edited in the Crowdsignal dashboard, but the old ones can. The wp-admin style polls however do not appear in the WordPress wp-admin overview.

So a few years back, I wrote this [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App (starting with [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “OK, let me try to phrase what I just learned from fiddling around with polls in the WordPress Gutenberg block editor and wp-admin based classic editor. In the distance past, the classic editor had polldaddy polls. Automattic (WordPress.com owner) bought Polldaddy.”)

Why I like the wp-admin interface

Like many others, I too think the wp-admin classic interface is so much better than the “modern” interface not just because the old one is so much more keyboard friendly.

So they will need to pry it from my cold hands before I start switching to the “Gutenberg” editor (the haughtiness of the one who came up with that name still baffles me). If I ever want to write a book, I’d rather use LaTeX than the “Gutenberg” editor.

Oh: you cannot grab the poll ID from the Gutenberg block editor then insert it in the above . I tried it, the classic editor requires an integer poll ID and the Gutenberg block editor emits a poll like this with the ID being a guid:

<!-- wp:crowdsignal-forms/poll {"pollId":"2d07f397-a3c7-4249-b18a-b10bdb5d864d","isMultipleChoice":true,"question":"\u003cem\u003eWindows Resource Editor\u003c/em\u003e","answers":[{"text":"Resource Editor","answerId":"37f206d4-9c23-41fe-b048-cb907f6fcd05"},{"text":"XN Resource Editor","answerId":"35062d06-b8e3-48c3-a015-b24858da684e"},{"text":"IcoFX","answerId":"e3e23101-46f4-4542-aef3-c53c33fcffea"},{"text":"ResEdit","answerId":"c5cb7ff1-da1b-44cf-aff8-9df22f3e1337"},{"text":"Resource Hacker","answerId":"b6e24140-4ae1-4293-8a2e-c7a0e3735647"},{"text":"Resource Editor","answerId":"dd28466a-9d1a-4b4b-a193-c16dc34359b5"}],"className":"is-style-buttons"} /-->

It means both kinds of polls are incompatible with each other. So you cannot easily re-use a poll originally created in the wp-admin classic editor inside the Gutenberg block editor to boost poll votes or vice versa.

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––jeroen

 

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