- SodaHead
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- October 15, 2007 16:52:34
- Encino, CA
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- http://www.sodahead.com/other/movable-type-plugin/group-235/
- SodaHead Poll Widget Plugin for Movable Type 3 and Movable Type 4.
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SodaHead PollsCreate a free poll for your blog with images and a fully customized look in seconds using the best poll widget available.
Want to poll your readers and see live results? Bloggers use polls more than any other interactive application to engage their readers. Create an engaging experience for your audience today and keep them coming back for more.
Tired of boring looking polls with no character? With the SodaHead Polls Plugin you can create an unlimited number of polls and post them on your blog instantly.
Enhances interactivity and stickiness with SodaHead Polls:
• Add images to question and each answer
• Create and save skins/themes to match your look and feel
• Customize the size you want
• Long answers - over 250 characters per answer
• More than 10 answers
• Security against vote fraud
• Virally spread the same poll to websites like MySpace and Facebook
• Optional voter comments
• Zoom details on each answer
• Add your logo for branding
• Optionally add your poll to the SodaHead network for more exposure
• Flash-based for security and compatibility
• No coding required to add a poll to your blog - just point and click
• New features get added frequently
• and much more.
All of your polls and themes are stored so you can return later to add or update as desired.
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Polls encourage your audience to come back to your blog to read results and to invite others to your blog to vote. SodaHead polls go beyond tradional polling by making it a rich user experience for the voter. Whether you blog about the presidential elections just around the corner, something controversial in the news, your favorite sports team, the new trend or just a random thought -- invite your readers to chime in with a simple click. Then you can see if your readers really agree with you (or not!).
Requirements to create Polls:
- Register during installation for a FREE account on SodaHead.com
- Browser:
1. Internet Explorer 6* and higher
2. Firefox (Windows, Linux)
3. Safari (Mac)
Installing SodaHead Polls in Movable Type
- Windows Users: Download pollplugin.zip by clicking here
- Linux/Unix Users: Download pollplugin.tar.gz by clicking here
- Extract pollplugin.zip or pollplugin.tar.gz
- Copy the contents of 'mt-static' to your 'mt-static' directory
- Copy the contents of 'plugins' to your 'plugins' directory
- Visit the movable type admin interface where you will be prompted to upgrade the SodaHead Polls plugin
- Let it upgrade (this will create the necessary database table for the SodaHead Polls plugin to run properly)
- Note For Linux / Unix Users: The file plugins/Sodahead/sodahead.cgi must be executable by apache. When extracting the tar file this file should have the proper executable permissions, but if for some reason it does not, please be sure to set those permissions accordingly.
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Report any and all SodaHead Polls Plugin bugs here. |
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Wish you could do a little bit more with our plugin. Let us know what your thoughts are. We need the community to help us build the best Poll widget for Movable Type. |
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One question, how does the blog plugin know what my Sodahead account info is? I was never asked for that, nor does the documentation seem to mention it.
I'm using MT 3.36. I haven't installed a plugin in a while. Should I be changing permissions before attempting to login? Is there an other way of installing a plugin I should be aware of. Could you outline the steps in greater detail? Thanks.
Jeff
But still I don't know how to add poll to our movable type blog.