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How to Add PollDaddy Polls

You can now add PollDaddy.com polls to your WordPress.com blog.

1) Sign up for a free PollDaddy account: http://polldaddy.com/free/

2) Create a new poll. You will have the options to: add a question, a list of potential answers, select your poll’s language, and set your desired style. Feel free to browse any other options offered over at PollDaddy; the right sidebar has some particular goodies in which you may be interested.

3) Click Save and Continue.

4) You will be given a piece of javascript code to place onto a web site. But, as you most likely know, such code is not permitted on WordPress.com for security reasons. Ignore it. You will see a link on the right sidebar for “WordPress Blogs.” Click it and you will receive three new options.

5) Select the appropriate option for your blog. Because we are working from WordPress.com, choose “My Blog is on WordPress.com.” The other two options are strictly for WordPress.org installations. What’s the difference?

6) You will be given shortcode to use on WordPress.com. Copy the code (brackets and everything!).

7) To add the poll to a post or page – Open a new post/page (Write -> Post; Write -> Page) or existing post/page (Manage -> Posts; Manage -> Pages) and paste the shortcode (as obtained in step #6) into your visual editor (it also works in the HTML editor). Save or publish your post/page and start voting on your new poll!

To add the poll to your sidebar – Go to Design -> Widgets and add a Text widget. Click “Edit” on the text widget; paste the shortcode and click “Save Changes.”

Notes: You cannot show the same poll more than once on a given page. This means that if you insert a poll into a post/page, and insert the same poll in your sidebar, only the poll in your post/page will display.

This info is from wordpress faq