Title: Poll Plugin for WordPress Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Poll Plugin for WordPress * [pera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pera/) * (@pera) * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/) * It’s for WordPress 1.2, will it work with WordPress 1.5 to ? Viewing 12 replies - 16 through 27 (of 27 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) 2 * [paddymann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paddymann/) * (@paddymann) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181613) * Hi, a few points. * The installation script, almost certainly, is failing because you haven’t uploaded a fixed version of wp_settings.php. * Secondly there are a few bugs that could do with addressing. * – Slashes aren’t dealt with very well. Please refer to [http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php](http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.get-magic-quotes-gpc.php) so as to only add slashes if it hasn’t already been done! – And remove slashes from input boxes [shown after giving a poll name including quotation marks or apostrophes] – And finally, as of bugs I’ve currently come across, please put up a polite message if no poll is found 🙂 Rather than a somewhat unattractive MySQL error. * Cheers, looking forward to using it, will post again if I manage to successfully fix the above for my site. * [DDT](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddt/) * (@ddt) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181617) * hmm, ok I have installed the poll plugin and it works almost perfect. Two thingies. * 1 View results doesn’t work. And I find it strange because after voting it does show the results. I guess in my case the results are only shown when var showresults =1 and var vote exists. How can I solve this? * 2 Cookies don’t work I can vote as much as I want???? * Any pointers??? * [paddymann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paddymann/) * (@paddymann) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181619) * i had the same cookies problem – its not really a great method .. but then there aren’t any good methods for polls (?), other than insisting everyone signs up. * personally i’ve uninstalled the addon for the moment and will return to it when i have more time. * [flavarite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flavarite/) * (@flavarite) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181621) * Thanks for the great plugin. So far everything works great. I’ve come accross an issue with using Permalinks and the poll plugin. * I had permalinks on in WP but turned them off to get this to work for the time being. When viewing a post via its permalink and you click on VIEW RESULTS for any poll on that page it errors out with the following message as an example: * The requested URL /2005/06/05/briannes-gonna-be-21-the-plan/index.php was not found on this server. * Any ideas on how to get thsi plugin to work with permalinks on? * The cookies aren’t working for me either. Any ideas on this yet? It’s allowing me to vote on the same poll more than once. * [smilingjack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smilingjack/) * (@smilingjack) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181622) * For cookie support see my post here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34555](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/34555) * Hope that helps. * [caipirina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caipirina/) * (@caipirina) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181624) * so .. is there any working poll plugin for WP 1.5 by now? without undergoing the above ordeals ?? * [Ringo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ringo/) * (@ringo) * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181625) * I think there’s probably a lot more people that have it working then are posting“ it’s not working” in this thread. I had no difficulty setting it up or using it. The ONLY thing that got in the way was my wp template layout …… You should try it caipirina …. * [trimmedinred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trimmedinred/) * (@trimmedinred) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181650) * i got this error all works but when someone vote you get the error * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /nfsn/content/tpu/htdocs/wp-content/themes/falling_dreams/header.php:4) in/ nfsn/content/tpu/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/polls.php on line 71 * if anyone could help please do * [christabone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christabone/) * (@christabone) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181652) * It looks like the header error is because of a conflict in the header.php file sending information before the setcookie(); command in poll.php. Apparently setcookie(); technically sends headers to the client computer similarly to normal http headers. If any content (i.e. “echo” commands or text) is sent to the client before setcookie(); is used, an error occurs. * There are a couple ways to fix this, but a quick [and sloppy] hack is to edit the index.php file in your template and change: * * to * * It fixes both the error that you’re seeing and also allows the cookie to function properly. In programming terms, it would be much better to re-code the polls. php and get the setcookie(); function to work earlier before any of the content is sent to the client. The ob_start(); and ob_end_flush(); basically creates a buffer for php to store all the information until the headers are fully established and then send the data to the client at once. So long as there isn’t a tremendous amount of stuff in the headers.php and poll.php files, everything should be ok. * If anyone knows how to successfully re-code the polls.php file, any help would be appreciated (so that the hack isn’t required) 🙂 * [aktiv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aktiv/) * (@aktiv) * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181683) * You could give this a try :): [http://www.phpaddons.com/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/](http://www.phpaddons.com/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/) * [juryduty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juryduty/) * (@juryduty) * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181702) * This poll works GREAT on my site, but the formatting of the archives are all messed up–they skew WAY to the left and right of the page. * I’ve been scouring the wp-polls.php file, but can’t seem to find what’s causing this behavior. Any ideas? * You can see it at [http://www.thechristianguitarist.com/wp-polls.php](http://www.thechristianguitarist.com/wp-polls.php) * [juryduty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juryduty/) * (@juryduty) * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181703) * NM–I fixed the problem by nesting the poll tables within a second table. No problem now! 🙂 Viewing 12 replies - 16 through 27 (of 27 total) [←](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) [1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/?output_format=md) 2 The topic ‘Poll Plugin for WordPress’ is closed to new replies. * 27 replies * 21 participants * Last reply from: [juryduty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juryduty/) * Last activity: [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poll-plugin-for-wordpress/page/2/#post-181703) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics