I’ve been looking through voting plugins and cannot seem to find one that works for me. I’m hoping you can help me out before I have to build my own as I’m tight on time.
I have a page that will be full of (custom) posts, and I want users to be able to vote for their favorite. They should only be able to vote once, and I would like to track the username of the person who voted.
WP-Polls is a great poll plugin that has the same features that I need (track voter and limit to one vote based on username), but I want to have a small ‘vote’ button below each listed post. Vote It Up can add a voting button at the bottom of each post, but does not track users or limit them to one vote.
Anyone have any ideas where I could find something like that? Thanks in advance.
Here is exactly what you need,
http://bavotasan.com/tutorials/simple-voting-for-wordpress-with-php-and-jquery/
As you can see you can track the user(s) and vote(s),
also you can add some extra columns in your users admin area to track the votes.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/
I’ve used this plugin for years. Can be configured to use +/- type ratings or 5 start type ratings. Can easily use your own graphics as well. Can track votes by cookie, IP, cookie+IP, or username (for limiting number of votes by any of those)
Can include the rating on every post by including
or on individual posts using the [ratings] shortcode
All votes get displayed on the backend with username, post rated, rating, and date/time and IP/host
try WP-PostRatings
its what i use most of the time for my rating and voting needs and it keeps track and limits user to vote once.