With the new Facebook Sharing Details form, you can customize these options! Add branded touches, optimize your title for maximum Facebook attention, test different images — it’s all possible now.

To find the Facebook Sharing Details form, head to the “Collect Responses” section of your survey. You’ll find the sharing options right above the Facebook “Share” icon:

For more information about how it works, take a look at the support page, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!

We’ve got a lot planned for Crowdsignal. This visual refresh is just the beginning. As we move forward, we’ll be scrutinizing our tools and features. Your feedback is valuable to us—so please let us know if there are new features you’d like to see, or existing features that we could level up. It’s not just a name switch, we’re committed to making Crowdsignal better than Polldaddy in every way!

If you’re an experienced Polldaddy user, you should see some small visual  tweaks to your dashboard so that it fits with our snazzy new look. If you’re new to Crowdsignal, welcome! Here are just a few of the great features you’ll get with your new plan (btw, it’s totally free to start, if you just want to go ahead and start making surveys):

Unlimited surveys

Make as many polls, surveys and quizzes as you want, all on a custom yourname.crowdsignal.com domain.

Drag-and-drop questions

Adjust your surveys on the fly and rearrange quizzes for optimal engagement with easy drag-and-drop questions.

Custom design

Choose from 15 pre-set visual themes, or use your CSS skills to customize the look of your surveys. You can change the font, size, color, add HTML, images and video.

Full WordPress integration

Crowdsignal’s an Automattic company, which means integration with WordPress is a cinch. Embed surveys on your website in seconds!

This barely scratches the surface of what you’ll get and what you can do. All the great Polldaddy features are now even better Crowdsignal features!

Create your free plan now and start asking questions.

With every survey comes data, and we’ll get it to you in whatever way you need it.

Your Crowdsignal dashboard is your home base for all your surveys, polls, questions and quizzes. It’s also how you’ll get to your data. Pro and corporate plans get powerful reporting tools offering real-time results, text analysis, comprehensive reports and more. Get the data you need to come to the right conclusions with your Crowdsignal plan.

Crowdsignal surveys go anywhere

Get immediate feedback with the Crowdsignal for iOS app. Ditch paper forms with the iPad and iPhone app. Upload data seamlessly to your Crowdsignal plan. It’s perfect for trade shows, street surveys, and on-the-spot data collection.

How to start making surveys

Ready to get started? If you had any Polldaddy plan, great news, you’ve already got a Crowdsignals plan. For newbies, you can sign up for a free plan to start making surveys, polls and quizzes right away. If you want more flexibility, customization, and data, step up to an affordable corporate or pro plan. Jump in now, make as many as you want, and start reading your crowd’s signals.

We have prepared an FAQ where you will find answers to questions you may have, but please contact us if you have any further questions.

We are very excited to announce that Polldaddy will be changing its name to Crowdsignal on October 22nd.

The new Crowdsignal.com website is everything you’ve always loved about Polldaddy.com and will feature a slightly updated design. Aside from minor color and graphics updates, your dashboard will remain unchanged, and your editing tools for polls, surveys, quizzes, and ratings will remain the same as well. The new website will go live on Monday.

Crowdsignal is owned by Automattic, just like Polldaddy, so you will continue to log in to the site through WordPress.com. This also means that the same terms, conditions, and privacy policy that governed Polldaddy will apply to Crowdsignal.

If you have bookmarked links for editing surveys, quizzes, polls or ratings on Polldaddy.com they will redirect automatically to the same page on the Crowdsignal.com website. We want this transition to go as smoothly as possible for you so on Monday you will be able to try out Crowdsignal.com for yourself to get used to the new site. You will still be able to use Polldaddy.com as before. However, from Wednesday on, visitors will be redirected to the Crowdsignal.com site.

There are, however, some changes to note. The API address will change, and direct links to polls and surveys will be different but old URLs will continue to work indefinitely.

• The dashboard will redirect from https://polldaddy.com/dashboard/ to https://app.crowdsignal.com/dashboard/ automatically.
• You can continue to use https://api.polldaddy.com/ but https://api.crowdsignal.com/v1/ will be the new home for the API.
• Surveys and quizzes will be served from survey.fm
• Polls will be served from poll.fm

If you are on a network behind a firewall you may need to whitelist the hostnames we have listed below. Contact your network administrator before October 22 to prevent interruptions to your account.

• api.crowdsignal.com
• app.crowdsignal.com
• crowdsignal.com
• survey.fm
• poll.fm

If your website has a firewall that blocks outgoing connections you may need to whitelist api.crowdsignal.com so that embedding polls and surveys in WordPress posts works correctly. The Polldaddy/Crowdsignal WordPress plugin also communicates with this server.

Embedded surveys, quizzes, polls and ratings will continue to be served from the polldaddy.com domain.

We have prepared a short FAQ where you will find answers to questions you may have, but please contact us if you have any further questions.

We have created a GDPR Access Tool that anyone can use to to query information associated with their email address. A form on that page asks for an email address, and then sends a message to that address to verify ownership of the address. Once confirmed the page displays any polls votes or survey/quiz responses.

The respondent can then examine the responses through that page, download the data, or request either individual responses or every response be deleted.

Clicking the download button will start a process that collects all your information, including uploaded files. Poll responses are put into a single HTML file while survey responses are in separate HTML files and one CSV file. There is a cover index.html that links to each file making navigation easier.

Polldaddy Users, as data controllers of their polls, surveys and quizzes, now have a new Data Subject Erasure Requests page where these delete requests can be taken care of. When a request to delete data is made an email is sent to the data controller 24 hours later.

Responses can be deleted or ignored on that page. Sometimes it is necessary for an organization to retain information because it has a legitimate use for it. As you can see from the screenshot above, each request tells the data controller if the request was made by an IP address in the EU. For the purposes of the example, the IP 192.168.1.1 was used but this IP address is actually the IP address of the original poll voter, and is already visible to paid Polldaddy users. It is not the IP from which the delete request was made.

Polldaddy support staff cannot handle GDPR access or delete requests but contact us if you have any queries.

The new method is GetPollVotes and can be configured to return any number of votes from any of your polls. It will also return any tags that have been attached to votes. This differs from GetPollResults which returns the final poll results as a summary of the votes.

The example code has been updated to include support for the new method, but to make the most of it you’ll also need to use GetPoll first. That will give you a list of the poll answers, including an “id” for each. That field is the “answer_id” returned by GetPollVotes.

A Pro or Corporate account is required to use the GETPollVotes API method.

We recommend caching the output from all the API methods locally for performance reasons.

When you create a survey with Crowdsignal you can select from a number of question types, and one of these is the rank type. This allows participants to arrange choices in order of preference by dragging and dropping them into the desired position.

What result did we end up with? The ranked survey orders items according to a weighted rank. This is calculated as the sum of the position multiplied by the count for each choice, and then divided by the total number of responses. Here are the results:

As you can see from our results, Madrid is the winner. The detailed data shows us that three people put Madrid in first place, one person put it second, four people put it third, and one person put it last. Adding these values to the formula gives us this:

weighted rank = ((1 * 3) + (2 * 1) + (3 * 4) + (4 * 1)) / 9 = 21/9 = 2.33

Edinburgh was also ranked first by three participants, but it came last because five people ranked that option as least favored.

The ranked survey is a useful tool when trying to decide between a number of options, or for ranking options in order of importance. Use it as a way for employees to rank benefits according to importance, or allow your clients to rank which feature they’d most like to see implemented next, or even where to go for the next family holiday. To learn more about ranked surveys please see our support guide.

Surveys

The new Color Palette theme for Polldaddy surveys is a simple to use theme that will allow you to change the color scheme used in the theme with a single click:

The theme is fully responsive, as it will automatically scale to your visitor’s screen. This means the same theme will be shown to mobile and desktop visitors. Mobile users will, by necessity, see a narrower version of the survey as the theme will adjust for the smaller size of the screen. They will still see the same colors and font.

We have built an easy to use palette picker. Simply click a color and the preview of the survey will reload with a new palette of colors. You may also change the default font used, and choose the text direction of your survey.

As with the other themes, you can edit this one to customise it further. If the available colors don’t suit, they can be changed in the custom colour section of the theme.

If you decide you don’t want to use this new style you can browse the other styles available by clicking the “view style picker” link on the right hand side of the page.

Polls

We have added a number of new poll themes.

The four new themes are minimalist in nature, but offer pleasing colors for all sorts of uses.

If you have any questions about the new themes please get in touch and we’ll help you.

• Arabic
• Chinese (China)
• Chinese (Taiwan)
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish

Over the years, volunteers and staff have helped translate Polldaddy. Over time, translations become stale as the site is updated and changed. With that in mind, Automattic’s translation team worked with an external translation company to overhaul all the translations. The result? An improved Polldaddy that’s accessible to even more people.

We pushed out updates to those languages over the past week, and they’re now all live on Polldaddy. We know you’ll see the improvement, but if you ways to make them even better, please don’t hesitate to contact support! And if you’d like to contribute translations for other languages, you can do that here.

Happy polling!

• Page Header
• Name
• Phone Number
• Address
• Date/Time
• URL
• File Upload
• Email Address
• HTML Snippet

You’ll be able to see these in the question toolbar when designing your quiz, as shown here:

As always, you’ll be able to ask multiple choice questions that feature a correct answer, to score your respondents’ answers. All other question types cannot be scored.

Rate limiting prevents poll fraud

Did you know that as a voting security precaution, all polls (including polls with unrestricted voting) are rate limited by IP address? Rate limiting means that there’s a threshold on the number of votes a poll can receive from any given IP address within a set period of time.

Sometimes, on very popular polls, a large number of votes coming in at the same time from a single internet address, (such as a university or large offices) can trip this fraud-prevention security feature. A “cooling off” period goes into effect, preventing additional votes from the IP address for a period of time. Users who attempt to vote during this period will receive an error message stating that too many votes have been received for the poll.

Remove rate limiting by whitelisting your polls

We’ve implemented a new feature that allows Pro and Corporate customers to avoid accidentally tripping the “cooling off” feature with whitelisting.

Let’s walk through how to whitelist a poll.

Whitelisting a poll

To whitelist a poll, click on the “Design Poll” link:

You’ll see a “whitelist poll” checkbox under the poll name:

Once you click the checkbox, remember to click on the “Save Settings” button at the bottom of the page for the whitelisting change to take effect on the poll.

Managing your whitelisted polls

You can see all your whitelisted polls by clicking on the “Whitelist” link in the Polldaddy header:

Behold! A list of all your whitelisted polls:

Here you can click the “Edit Poll” link to edit it or click the “Delete from Whitelist” link to remove it from the whitelist:

If you have any questions about Poll Whitelisting or would like to get some help working with Polldaddy, give us a shout in support. We’re happy to help!