Below, you’ll find a detailed guide on how to add the Polldaddy Shortcode to your WordPress website, including its parameters, examples, and PHP function code. Additionally, we’ll assist you with common issues that might cause the Polldaddy Plugin shortcode not to show or not to work correctly.
Before starting, here is an overview of the Polldaddy Plugin and the shortcodes it provides:
Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more
"Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more" is a versatile WordPress plugin that empowers users to create, manage, and analyze polls, surveys, and more directly from their WordPress dashboard.
Included Shortcodes:
- [crowdsignal]
Polldaddy [crowdsignal] Shortcode
The Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) shortcode is used to embed polls, surveys, and ratings into WordPress posts or pages. This PHP function extracts attributes, sets defaults, and handles various display types.
Shortcode: [crowdsignal]
Parameters
Here is a list of all possible crowdsignal shortcode parameters and attributes:
survey– Identifier of the survey to be displayedlink_text– Text for the link to the surveypoll– Identifier of the poll to be displayedrating– Rating value to be displayedunique_id– Unique ID for the rating or pollitem_id– ID of the item being rated or polledtitle– Title of the poll or surveypermalink– Permalink URL for the poll or surveycb– Cache buster value to prevent caching of datatype– Type of the display, such as button, slider, etc.body– Body text for the survey or pollbutton– Button text for the survey or polltext_color– Text color for the survey or pollback_color– Background color for the survey or pollalign– Alignment of the survey or pollstyle– Style of the survey or pollwidth– Width of the survey or pollheight– Height of the survey or polldelay– Delay before displaying the survey or pollvisit– Defines when the survey or poll should be displayeddomain– Domain of the survey or pollid– Identifier of the survey or poll
Examples and Usage
Basic example – Displaying a simple poll with the ID of 5 on your webpage
[crowdsignal poll=5 /]Advanced examples
Creating a survey with a unique ID, customized link text, and a specific width and height.
[crowdsignal survey="123456" link_text="Please take our survey!" width="500" height="300" /]Embedding a rating system with a unique ID and a specific post ID as the item ID.
[crowdsignal rating="5" unique_id="rating123" item_id="post7" /]Displaying a poll with a specific ID, customized link text, and set to display as a button.
[crowdsignal poll="789" link_text="Vote now!" type="button" /]Using the shortcode to display a poll with a specific ID, and setting the color of the text and background.
[crowdsignal poll="321" text_color="FF0000" back_color="0000FF" /]PHP Function Code
In case you have difficulties debugging what causing issues with [crowdsignal] shortcode, check below the related PHP functions code.
Shortcode line:
add_shortcode( 'crowdsignal', array( $this, 'polldaddy_shortcode' ) );Shortcode PHP function:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 | function polldaddy_shortcode( $atts ) { global $post; global $content_width; extract( shortcode_atts( array( 'survey' => null, 'link_text' => 'Take Our Survey', 'poll' => 'empty', 'rating' => 'empty', 'unique_id' => null, 'item_id' => null, 'title' => null, 'permalink' => null, 'cb' => 0, 'type' => 'button', 'body' => '', 'button' => '', 'text_color' => '000000', 'back_color' => 'FFFFFF', 'align' => '', 'style' => '', 'width' => $content_width, 'height' => floor( $content_width * 3 / 4 ), 'delay' => 100, 'visit' => 'single', 'domain' => '', 'id' => '' ), $atts, 'crowdsignal' ) ); if ( ! is_array( $atts ) ) { return '<!-- Crowdsignal shortcode passed invalid attributes -->'; } $inline = !in_the_loop(); $no_script = false; $infinite_scroll = false; if ( is_home() && current_theme_supports( 'infinite-scroll' ) ) $infinite_scroll = true; if ( defined( 'PADPRESS_LOADED' ) ) $inline = true; if ( function_exists( 'get_option' ) && get_option( 'polldaddy_load_poll_inline' ) ) $inline = true; if ( is_feed() || ( defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) && !$infinite_scroll ) ) $no_script = false; self::$add_script = $infinite_scroll; if ( intval( $rating ) > 0 && !$no_script ) { //rating embed if ( empty( $unique_id ) ) $unique_id = is_page() ? 'wp-page-'.$post->ID : 'wp-post-'.$post->ID; if ( empty( $item_id ) ) $item_id = is_page() ? '_page_'.$post->ID : '_post_'.$post->ID; if ( empty( $title ) ) $title = apply_filters( 'the_title', $post->post_title ); if ( empty( $permalink ) ) $permalink = get_permalink( $post->ID ); $rating = intval( $rating ); $unique_id = preg_replace( '/[^\-_a-z0-9]/i', '', wp_strip_all_tags( $unique_id ) ); $item_id = wp_strip_all_tags( $item_id ); $item_id = preg_replace( '/[^_a-z0-9]/i', '', $item_id ); $settings = json_encode( array( 'id' => $rating, 'unique_id' => $unique_id, 'title' => rawurlencode( trim( $title ) ), 'permalink' => esc_url( $permalink ), 'item_id' => $item_id ) ); $item_id = esc_js( $item_id ); if ( $inline ) { return <<<SCRIPT<div class="cs-rating pd-rating" id="pd_rating_holder_{$rating}{$item_id}"></div><script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--PDRTJS_settings_{$rating}{$item_id}={$settings};//--><!]]></script><script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" src="https://polldaddy.com/js/rating/rating.js"></script>SCRIPT; } else { if ( self::$scripts === false ) self::$scripts = array(); $data = array( 'id' => $rating, 'item_id' => $item_id, 'settings' => $settings ); self::$scripts['rating'][] = $data; add_action( 'wp_footer', array( $this, 'generate_scripts' ) ); $data = esc_attr( json_encode( $data ) ); if ( $infinite_scroll ) return <<<CONTAINER<div class="cs-rating pd-rating" id="pd_rating_holder_{$rating}{$item_id}" data-settings="{$data}"></div>CONTAINER; else return <<<CONTAINER<div class="cs-rating pd-rating" id="pd_rating_holder_{$rating}{$item_id}"></div>CONTAINER; } } elseif ( intval( $poll ) > 0 ) { //poll embed $poll = intval( $poll ); $poll_url = sprintf( 'https://poll.fm/%d', $poll ); $poll_js = sprintf( '%s.polldaddy.com/p/%d.js', '//static', $poll ); $poll_link = sprintf( '<a href="%s">Take Our Poll</a>', $poll_url ); if ( $no_script ) { return $poll_link; } else { if ( $type == 'slider' && !$inline ) { if( !in_array( $visit, array( 'single', 'multiple' ) ) ) $visit = 'single'; $settings = array( 'type' => 'slider', 'embed' => 'poll', 'delay' => intval( $delay ), 'visit' => $visit, 'id' => intval( $poll ) ); return $this->get_async_code( $settings, $poll_link ); } else { $cb = ( $cb == 1 ? '?cb='. time() : false ); $margins = ''; $float = ''; if ( in_array( $align, array( 'right', 'left' ) ) ) { $float = sprintf( 'float: %s;', $align ); if ( $align == 'left') $margins = 'margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;'; elseif ( $align == 'right' ) $margins = 'margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px'; } // Force the normal style embed on single posts/pages otherwise it's not rendered on infinite scroll themed blogs ('infinite_scroll_render' isn't fired) if ( is_singular() ) $inline = true; if ( $cb === false && !$inline ) { if ( self::$scripts === false ) self::$scripts = array(); $data = array( 'url' => $poll_js ); self::$scripts['poll'][] = $data; add_action( 'wp_footer', array( $this, 'generate_scripts' ) ); $data = esc_attr( json_encode( $data ) ); $script_url = esc_url_raw( plugins_url( 'js/polldaddy-shortcode.js', __FILE__ ) ); $str = <<<CONTAINER<a name="pd_a_{$poll}"></a><div class="CSS_Poll PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container{$poll}" data-settings="{$data}" style="display:inline-block;{$float}{$margins}"></div><div id="PD_superContainer"></div><noscript>{$poll_link}</noscript>CONTAINER;$loader = <<<SCRIPT( function( d, c, j ) { if ( !d.getElementById( j ) ) { var pd = d.createElement( c ), s; pd.id = j; pd.src = '{$script_url}'; s = d.getElementsByTagName( c )[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore( pd, s ); } else if ( typeof jQuery !== 'undefined' ) jQuery( d.body ).trigger( 'pd-script-load' );}( document, 'script', 'pd-polldaddy-loader' ) );SCRIPT; $loader = $this->compress_it( $loader ); $loader = "<script type='text/javascript'>\n".$loader."\n</script>"; return $str.$loader; } else { if ( $inline ) $cb = ''; return <<<CONTAINER<a name="pd_a_{$poll}"></a><div class="CSS_Poll PDS_Poll" id="PDI_container{$poll}" style="display:inline-block;{$float}{$margins}"></div><div id="PD_superContainer"></div><script type="text/javascript" charset="UTF-8" src="{$poll_js}{$cb}"></script><noscript>{$poll_link}</noscript>CONTAINER; } } } } elseif ( !empty( $survey ) ) { //survey embed if ( in_array( $type, array( 'iframe', 'button', 'banner', 'slider' ) ) ) { if ( empty( $title ) ) { $title = __( 'Take Our Survey!', 'polldaddy' ); if( !empty( $link_text ) ) $title = $link_text; } if ( $type == 'banner' || $type == 'slider' ) $inline = false; $survey = preg_replace( '/[^a-f0-9]/i', '', $survey ); $survey_url = esc_url( "https://survey.fm/{$survey}" ); $survey_link = sprintf( '<a href="%s">%s</a>', $survey_url, esc_html( $title ) ); if ( $no_script || $inline || $infinite_scroll ) return $survey_link; if ( $type == 'iframe' ) { if ( $height != 'auto' ) { if ( isset( $content_width ) && is_numeric( $width ) && $width > $content_width ) $width = $content_width; if ( !$width ) $width = '100%'; else $width = (int) $width; if ( !$height ) $height = '600'; else $height = (int) $height; return <<<CONTAINER<iframe src="{$survey_url}?iframe=1" frameborder="0" width="{$width}" height="{$height}" scrolling="auto" allowtransparency="true" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">{$survey_link}</iframe>CONTAINER; } elseif ( !empty( $domain ) && !empty( $id ) ) { $domain = preg_replace( '/[^a-z0-9\-]/i', '', $domain ); $id = preg_replace( '/[\/\?&\{\}]/', '', $id ); $auto_src = esc_url( "https://{$domain}.survey.fm/{$id}" ); $auto_src = parse_url( $auto_src ); if ( !is_array( $auto_src ) || count( $auto_src ) == 0 ) return '<!-- no crowdsignal output -->'; if ( !isset( $auto_src['host'] ) || !isset( $auto_src['path'] ) ) return '<!-- no crowdsignal output -->'; $domain = $auto_src['host'] . '/'; $id = ltrim( $auto_src['path'], '/' ); $settings = array( 'type' => $type, 'auto' => true, 'domain' => $domain, 'id' => $id ); } } else { $text_color = preg_replace( '/[^a-f0-9]/i', '', $text_color ); $back_color = preg_replace( '/[^a-f0-9]/i', '', $back_color ); if ( !in_array( $align, array( 'right', 'left', 'top-left', 'top-right', 'middle-left', 'middle-right', 'bottom-left', 'bottom-right' ) ) ) $align = ''; if ( !in_array( $style, array( 'inline', 'side', 'corner', 'rounded', 'square' ) ) ) $style = ''; $title = wp_strip_all_tags( $title ); $body = wp_strip_all_tags( $body ); $button = wp_strip_all_tags( $button ); $settings = array_filter( array( 'title' => $title, 'type' => $type, 'body' => $body, 'button' => $button, 'text_color' => $text_color, 'back_color' => $back_color, 'align' => $align, 'style' => $style, 'id' => $survey ) ); } if ( empty( $settings ) ) return '<!-- no crowdsignal output -->'; return $this->get_async_code( $settings, $survey_link ); } } else { return '<!-- no crowdsignal output -->'; } } |
Code file location:
polldaddy/polldaddy/polldaddy-shortcode.phpConclusion
Now that you’ve learned how to embed the Polldaddy Plugin shortcode, understood the parameters, and seen code examples, it’s easy to use and debug any issue that might cause it to ‘not work’. If you still have difficulties with it, don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.
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