Is there a good plugin for rating blog posts that doesn’t depend on PollDaddy or another external service? Ideally I’d like a plugin similar in appearance to Polldaddy Polls & Ratings, but without the PollDaddy dependency (I’d prefer to have the rating data in the WP database).
EDIT: just to make things clear: I’m not interested in polls, only in rating for blog posts
What I tried so far:
- GD Star rating: too complex, and doesn’t work at all for me (*)
- WP-PostRatings:
doesn’t work at all for me (*)(my mistake… I didn’t realize I had to modify the theme. This one works fine) - kk Star ratings: doesn’t look too good with my theme (Garland revisited)
- Post ratings: simple, good looking, but there’s a bug with my theme;
I’ll try to fix the CSS if I can’t find anything better(OK, I’m really, really bad at CSS…) - Rating-Widget: really nice, but depends on external site
(*) perhaps this is because I have an unusual setup (Windows/IIS server, SQL Server database with WP database abstraction plugin, multi-site with domain mapping)
I eventually used WP-PostRatings. I thought it wasn’t working, but actually I just needed to edit the theme to insert the rating where I wanted it.
I’ve used WP Survey and Quiz Tool before with good success and can recommend that to you.