Create a list on your website and let members to choose the ones they want. A WordPress Plugin.
What is it?
Q-List is a WordPress Plug-in that lets you create a list on your WordPress website and your members can vote yes/no to the items on your list.
Features:
- Add items to the list
- Remove items from the list
- Edit items in the list
- Members can vote Yes/No to multiple items in the list. (Uses cookies so your users must have cookies enabled otherwise the poll won’t let them vote)
- Can be included in a post, page or in a php page.
- Abilty to show the checked ones only. Requires Jquery
Screenshots
How to use it?
If you want to include the list into your post or a page all you need to include is
[qlist]
If you want to include it in your php files the function is ‘show_questions’. Usage:
<?php show_questions();?>
If you want your list to have a different class you can send it as;
<?php show_questions("your-class");?>
Default class is: qlist
can you please link to a demo page so we can see exactly how it works?
You can see it in action right here http://funandom.com/webos/
Sorry you can’t see the administration over there.
and results of a q~list? Any way to show these on website?
I imagine showing the list that prints the list with total votes against the items, showing greatest to least.
Also a widget with top X items from list
Showing the results on of the features is going to on the first release (1.0).
Widget support may not make it to the first release I am working on right now but it is something I am planning on implementing.
Looks very good and useful.
Do you have a timeline for the publication of the first release? Without statistic it is not applicable.
A simple list with the results would be adequate I think.
Every webmaster or siteowner can do a diagram by itsself for presentation. This way the diagram could be adapted to the style of every blog.
I would say around 2 more weeks at most I will have a stable release with the results showing up.
Thank you for your interest in the plugin
Sorry, something forgotten.
And a feature to use it without registration would be very comfortable.
So everyone could use it for poll. Because the most other poll like plugins for wordpress are not very SEO comfortable. Google will classify them as spam.
Yes I think that makes more sense, I am just going to use cookies instead of membership
I’m going to keep an eye on this one. Will need it once all the features are complete, or at least the ones that’s been suggested so far.
Thanks for writing about this. There’s a lot of important tech information on the internet. You’ve got a lot of that info here on your web site. I’m impressed – I try to keep a couple blogs pretty current, but it’s a struggle sometimes. You’ve done a great job with this one. How do you do it?
Actually that is a good idea for an article. I will write one this week on it, giving tips on what to write about and keep your users interested.
I have just released the first official version. Please leave me your thoughts. Thank you
Hi Ali,
now I’ve tried your plugin. Very simple. But tell me: what’s about the percent beneath the questions?
Will there be a chance to collect the votings and to list them only for the admin?
For example: question one – click 45x
Because if we could do this the user will having more interests to come back to see the results for an voting.
And the webmaster can do an chart with the results and this is another chance to write an further article. For those who do not want to edit an chart there could be an option: showing results official yes/no.
This plugIn could be an mighty instrument some day because the data capture on an own server without using things like poll is very seo friendly.
Please take a look to your q-list:
http://schnauzerfoto.de/2010/02/wolfssichtung-lieberoser-heide-januar-2010/
Maybe the reason why is javascript?
Thanx for the good work and I hope our feedback is helpful for your work.
Yes definitely, I’m trying to develop this plug in only for how users use it not the way I think it should be so that its more useful to you. I think in the next update a more featured admin tool is a must at this point.
Can you elaborate more on the chart? I don’t quite get what you need.
Hi Ali,
will send you in the next days a little example to illustrate my proposal.
Really thanx a lot to share your deployment with us and considering our whishes and needs.
Manu
Alright cool.
I’m quite new to wordpress. but what you write in this blog is really great and very informative. I think it will help me in the future. Thanks for the great job
I have tried to use the plugin. However Greek language is not apperaing properly. Is there any solution you could suggest?
Can you check the database and see if the characters are recorded right? I just want to know if its the plugin that shows them wrong or they just get recorded wrong in the database too.
Please give me step-by-step directions how to check the database and see if the characters are recorded right, since I am a mewbie (pretty capable though). Your immediate answer will oblige.
Are you trying this locally or at a hosting company?
Locally:
If you are using xampp just go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
Hosted:
Check if your hosting has a phpmyadmin tool that you can use. Most hosting companies do.
After you open your phpmyadmin select your database from the left panel and then click wp_qlist and on the right panel, at the top of the screen click browse and you will see your database entries in front of you.
It is hosted. I did what you said and I read Collation ‘latin1_swedish_ci’, I am not sure I look at the right spot. When I select ‘browse’ Greek do not appear properly in questions of the list.
and you can use Greek characters in your site but just not the plugin?
Yes, exactly. Do you have any suggestions?
I will try to regenerate the problem tonight in my local with few non-English characters and see what’s going on but I had a similar problem with wp_insert_post function that WordPress has while ago and I posted a question in the WordPress Forums and they have suggested few things but they didn’t quite work but you can try them out too if you want. Forum post is here.
If you want, you can try to change the Collation to ‘utf8-collated’ and see if it works.
I am going to try to see if the PHP changes the characters or it happens when I use the wpdb function.
John, I just tested Greek characters and it worked with the collation ‘utf8_unicode_ci’.
Go into your table and set its collation to that and I am hoping it will fix your problem
I will try and report the results to you. I hope it works too!
I was searching for info like this and run into your post. I found it to be very useful. Thanks
It is probably me – I can be a bit thick at times, but I cannot work out how you make this plugin function.
I have acquired Q List (via Plugins > Add New in admin interface) and activated the plugin. All I can find is an options link at Settings > Q-List Options which ask for a question and an order and no matter what I place in these fields nothing shows up either in the admin interface nor in the page where the [qlist] has been placed.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Normally when you add a question and an answer from the admin interface, it will show on the top of the screen. If that is not happening there must be a problem.
From what I understand, you type out your question and hit “Save” and nothing shows up right?
Ali, thanks for responding so quickly.
As you say, I hit save and nothing happens. My current thinking is that it is a plugin conflict. Do you know if QList conflicts with any specific plugins?
Thanks
Dave
Not that I know of. Do you actually get an error or just the page refreshes and nothing shows up?
It’s the latter – no error. I enter the details and nothing shows up. Have tried it across different machines/browser PC/Mac combos but not a thing on any of them.
I just committed an updated version. I believe that will fix your problem.
Thanks Ali. I’ll check it out and feed back here.
Ali, the update gets the list working in the admin screens, but the results are not showing up on the blog page, however the ticks remain in-place and a different log-in user on a different machine can untick the items.
As I said, I can be a bit thick at times so this my be me not understanding this.
Dave
Every user can tick-untick items since it works like a poll. So when a new user logs in to the page, they’ll see them all checked and will uncheck them depending on his “vote”
is it possible to create more than one list at a time ? thnx.
Not as of now but it will be possible in the next version of Q-Lists
I haven’t installed this yet, but can you tell me if there is any opportunity to add html to the list items? I’d like to have people vote on an li with a img tag and some text within.
Ya you can put html into the fields.
You’re a genius. Plan on building a major feature around this plug-in. I’ll post the link here when I’m done.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate it