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Hi,
I’ll check out the plugin… looks great on your site. I found out about it from the WordPress support forum (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37853#post-213586), but the link you provided comes up with a 404 error. You may wish to fix!

What a great and easy to use plug-in. Thank you!

Is there a way to display the current poll in the sidebar and older polls (all polls) on another page?

Just wondered .

Thanks again
Karl

Andrew,

Thanks for the plug-in. I already implemented it in my blog without any problems.

A question and a suggestion. Why does the total # of votes not match the total of the two options?
I have 10 votes for A (37%), 14 for B (52%) but the total votes is 27? Where did the other ones go?

And also, can you have the jal_democracy() function take an optional argument, being the # of a poll to display? such as jal_democracy(11) will display poll 11? You would still have a primary poll designated for when the argument isn’t set.

Then, I was planning on writing a complimentary plugin, so you can insert polls into the posts themselves. One post could be for poll #7, and another one for poll #8.

Chad

Well, this plugin was a clever idea since the last poll plugin you could vote as many times as you wanted. I was kind of a fan of that feature, cuz than whatever you wanted to win, you could make win.

But I guess it’s not a bad idea to have a poll plugin that you can only vote once on.

Nice job.

ANyone having problems between Firefox and IE? I can only see it in IE and not firefox. even after I voted.

Thanks to your Democracy plugin, my friends are now coming up with the silliest polls ever! It makes things much more interesting!

Well done!

Updated to Alpha3. Some of the above comments have been addressed and problems should be fixed. Enjoy!

Thanks for a great plugin!! Only probs were related to having had WP-polls on my site before…. I recommend fully uninstalling WP-polls (just follow the directions, backward ), including the tables in the database, prior to installing Democracy!

The only thing I don’t see is how to make a page that shows past (inactive) polls, and their results. Is there a way that I’ve missed?

Thanks again.

kalico, that is definitely good advice. Some people have come to me wondering why the admin panel wasn’t working, only to realize that it was the remnant WP-polls admin panel. One simple way to get rid of its remnants is upgrade to the latest version of WordPress (1.5.2). If you haven’t done it already, it’s a perfect reason to upgrade.

I agree, I’d like a polls archive. I guess it’ll be another day of intensive coding tomorrow. *sigh* … I’ve got some small fixes for Alpha3 already written down. Be on the look out tomorrow!

Replying to your post at my site here so you see it.

The error I got on install was about an Insert failing as I think it had more values then there were columns in the table, sorry but I didn’t grab the error as I was just leaving work when I did it and it doesn’t look like it made the logs.

Then when I added the first poll assumedly because the demo poll wasn’t added properly I ended up with a bunch of extra answers (good, bad etc) added into those that I selected.

Also you might want to look at HTML escaping questions and answers those ampersands in my answers broke my XHTML, it would be a pain to always type & in such a scenario.

Also at least the View Results link broke XHTML as well as it uses get parameters with an ampersand, you should switch that any other links with get parameters to use & as well to avoid similar problems.

Yes, I’ve fixed all internal validation errors for the next version. It would be a pain to account for user-inputted XHTML invalidness, but maybe I should. Are there functions in WordPress that do that?

Thanks for the heads up.

Just use the bult-in php function htmlspecialchars and that should be enough.

Hello, I’m trying out this poll for FirstPersonShow.net at http://FirstPersonShow.net/beta1

Seems like after voting the choice I made is highlighted, but the number is not incremented. (I’ve voted a number of times from different browsers and PCs but still only seeing one as total votes.)

I’ve take the references to GamerZ poll out of the header.php and leftcolumn.php and deactivated the plugin, but do I need to do something else to get this working?

cheers,
Kevin
http://FirstPersonShow.net
“celebrating the uncelebrated”
(Interview Podcast)

Kevin, that’s a feature of Democracy. It doesn’t allow people to vote multiple times because it logs IP addresses. If you’ve voted from one IP, you can’t vote from it again no matter how many browsers or computers you use.

Another heads up, in FF 1.0.X setting innerHTML in XHTML pages (with MIME type application/xhtml+xml) fails and just sets it to blank as per:

http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/2004/11/innerhtml_in_xh.html

This will be fixed in 1.1 and was working for me from home where I’m running a nightly build but on my work laptop with FireFox 1.0 the div was just getting blanked out.

I was waiting for someone to point that out

I’ve just spent the day getting the data to load with proper XHTML pages. This is how far I got:

I get the response from AJAX and convert it to XML, then appendChild() it into the democracy box. This gives me all the text nodes and all the structure, but none of the HTML behavior. That means: links don’t work. CSS doesn’t work. Etc. If I apply some css like:

#democracy li {
display: list-item;
}

Then the list items will look like list items. I’d basically have to rewrite all the behavior of all the elements involved.

Alternatively, I could parse the XML and use DOM createElement() to make the HTML parse happily. But that would create a lot of bonus code that probably isn’t worth it for supporting such a fringe case of FF 1.0.x with XHTML headers.

So, I think I’ll just suck that up and wait for 1.1 to bring innerHTML support. If you want to work on the code I had and see if you can improve upon it, I’ll be happy to send it to you. It just doesn’t seem worth my time.

I’ve implemented this today, and it’s great. I’ve got a feature request, however. How about making it so that it can display a random poll?

Hi. Installed and setup, but no admin link in the manage section. Using 1.5.1.3 of WP, with lots of other plugins….any idea where admin is? Thanks…

Rich

Rich, are you sure you’re looking under manage and not options? also, make sure it’s enabled. works fine for me in 1.5.1.3

DBT,

Yes, looking in the right place. Do get an error in javascript though….a problem in wp-admin/edit.php.

Two in fact…both say “expecting ‘}’” I haven’t editing the edit.php, so I assume its having an issue loading something up in the admin menu bar. As per instructions, I installed the entire Democracy file folder in the plugins folder. No files go directly in the plugins folder, only the plugins/democracy folder, right?

Thanks, Rich

Rich, that’s strange. You seem to have gotten the installation right. You could try upgrading to Alpha4 that was released a couple days ago, and if the problem is still there, that is indeed weird. Perhaps if you’d allow it you could let me poke around your admin screen and see if I can’t find the problem. Alright, let me know what happens. Thanks

Very cool plugin! Much easier to install than the WP poll plugin I tried before.
Unfortunately I cannot use it for my purpose, for I need a poll ystem that allows more than one active poll. :,-( For example if user should rate the layout of the blog and other things that will not expire. Is there a chance that this feature can be added in a release later? You would make me very happy.

Jessica, I’m not sure I understand. So when a user votes, it takes them to the next poll? Just displays random polls until they’ve taken them all?

I’ll work on that for the next version…

Excellent, excellent plugin! Much more elegant than the previous polling plugin. One issue though: the progress bars look wierd in IE. No problem in FF, but in IE they’re huge–like 30 pixels tall, with a little blue strip on the top and bottom of each bar and plain white in between. I’m going to look into it (probably just IE being crappy with CSS), but I wanted to make you aware.

Hi Andrew!
No, that’s not what I meant.

It would just be great if you can have more than one active poll. The user can vote in all polls he want to: none, all, just one etc.

For example I would create a poll where you can vote which WP theme one prefers. This is a poll which can be active as long as the blog exists, but of course I want to add other polls later without disabling the first poll.

I hope I made it clear, sorry for my English and thanks for reading.

I’m still not quite sure I got it :s .. You want to be able to create new polls on the backend, but still be displaying the old one? That should be simple, just create a new poll and then reactivate the old one.

Or, do you want to see a kind of “results” page where it shows the standings of old polls that have been made before?

OK well it’s not exactly a real fix, but by adding “background-color: #06c” to the .democracy-choice class in democracy.css I at least filled in all the white space in IE. The bars are still 25px or so tall, but at least they look somewhat presentable now. http://3xmk.com

Hi Andrew,

I installed your plugin and it works great…except then a problem with i18n. My site is russian-language (UTF8) and so are the polls.

I can setup questions in russians OK, and they are displayed just fine but when user answers, the results displayed as gibberish instead of russian symbols. The same with “add your answer” feature.

I suspect the problem lies in DHTML (i’m using Firefox) but I’m no expert in Js to fix it.

If you could let at it I’d be grateful. Thanks.

Hi Andrew !

Wow – great plugin ! Its worked like a charm on my personal blog, i am currently setting up another and i am getting a strange conflict with a template !

the layout is all mangled and the options are next to each other in a horizontal structure , but if you vote it reverts back to how the poll should look !

When attempting to put this into a post using David Chait’s QuickPHP I’m getting all sorts of extra

Anyone have any idea how to get around this?

I guess the code tag isn’t working above, but I’m seeing extra breaks put in between the radio button and the answer.

Dave, you could try pastebinning it, post it in my shoutbox or something. Not really sure what the problem is here..

sent you email with the details

Nice plugin
Just a question: on IE the progress bars is very big… I tried to change it in css file but no result . Can you help me to correct that plz?
http://dreamgirls.globbo.org/

To fix the tall bars in IE, add the following to the .democracy-choice entry in democracy.css:

font-size:0.3px;

thanks a lot for such a wonderful piece of software, might be helpful to put somewhere a quick start to know that the two directories deep .zip, needs to be unzipped and the internal “democracy” directory put into wp-content/plugins

other than that, cool!

regards

Hello! I have installed your democracy plugin and it works great! I am having trouble with the styles though, seems it is not accessing the css file or something, and everything is coming out a bit messy looking.

Trying to remove the bullets, position the choices to the left, style the heading to match my site headings, and remove the extra space at the bottom.

The only way I could figure out to get the white box around the whole thing was a table in my sidebar with the code snip inside of it.

Please let me know what I am doing wrong!!

Jackie:

It isn’t opening the file because a vital part thing for your theme is missing. You need (in the tag) in your header.php file. That code is a hook for plugins that need to add things like css files and javascript files.

Dedge, I’ll twiddle with that, thanks!

Carlos, I think my plugins could use a few more FAQs in general. Thanks.

My theme calls for the header.php file, I guess I’m not quite sure what you are referring to… could you be more specific on what I am missing and where/which file it is missing from?

Thank you

Nevermind, I got some other help with it Thank you!

Whenever someone votes AJAX refreshes but I get a 404 error.

Natai, are you using the latest version, Beta 1?

I need to see the error myself. Could you reactivate Democracy for a bit so that I can diagnose your problem?

I’ve got a slight validation problem. I’ve installed the plugin and pasted the required code into my side bar. When it comes to validating my page I get a fair few problems.

Now I’ve had validation problems when installing new plugins before but all it took to fix them was to insert/correct a few tags.

I don’t want to paste the list of problems because it will clutter everything up, but it looks like the problem lies within the code. I’m just wondering wether or not you know about it.

Apart from validation problems it looks and works great. I use your shoutbox aswell. Good work on it btw

Andrew, first of all Thx for doing all the hard work and coming up with this cool poll plugin.

I’m having the same issue that grandMasterKrust is having:

the layout is all mangled and the options are next to each other in a horizontal structure , but if you vote it reverts back to how the poll should look !
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I’ve tried tweaking the php code but nothing seems to work. Help! I really want to use your poll.

Thx, PRpoet

P.S. You can see what I mean at http://prpoet.com

CaveCulture, I’m not aware of any validity problems. From your message, there is no way for me to help you and fix the problems. I need a link to the site having problems with, what kind of error it was, and all that.

PRpoet, I can’t help you if I can’t see what’s happening. It looks like you’ve disabled the poll. Could you re-enable it so I can have a look at the problem?

A note to future support questions:

PLEASE post your URL, do not deactivate the plugin, and I’ll get to it ASAP. It’s incredibly hard to help you when all you tell me is “There is an error. What should I do?”

Thanks.

Hi Andrew, here is the link to see the poll:
http://prpoet.com/?page_id=6

I’m using the ‘Blix’ theme and coding the poll code into the sidebar.php template.

After answering the poll, it looks ok. Before that, there seems to be some problems with table elements.

Thx for your help – PRpoet

CaveCulture, I found you by googling ‘CaveCulture’ … google is my friend!

That XHTML problem is indeed a bug, one that I have fixed in my next version that’ll be released soon.

PRpoet, ah. I played around with the css and found that it was a problem with Blix’s css, not mine. But in any case, you can just add this code and it should be all fixed. I’ll add it to the next version as well.

#democracy label {
float: none;
display: inline;
}

#democracy ul {
padding: 0;
}

Thx Andrew, how do I make the radio boxes shorter so they fit within the sidebar? Also, you’ll see an underlined ‘s’ under the last link on the main template, how do I get rid of this? This character only appears after installing the poll.

http://prpoet.com/?page_id=6

Thx again, PRPoet

strange I didn’t catch that.

#democracy input { width: auto; }

Andrew, Thx – U Da Man =D

Looks and works great now, I’ve put it on my landing page:

http://prpoet.com

Cheers, PRpoet

Andrew, Thx – U Da Man =D

Looks and works great now, I’ve put it on my landing page:

prpoet.com

Cheers, PRpoet

** New version of Democracy **

Vlad,

I’ve just been working on this plugin a lot and I’ve found this error. Thanks for the update. You can download the latest version that correctly stores IP addresses now.

The new version addresses a lot of bugs and adds a couple new features. Have fun!

i got rc-1 but it doesn’t validate. I turn it on and it doesn’t validate unfortunately. Did you address this bug in this version?

Andrew, you forgot to put this Blix fix into the Aug 2 democracy.css release:

#democracy input { width: auto; }

PRpoet

Vlad, that is indeed Version 1.0 RC 1. I know in the past people have had problems with their browser caching the file.

Alternative download:
http://www.redalt.com/External/plugins.php?p=democracy

And download the in-development version. That is actually RC 1, and it is stable.

Quick little bug:

It took me awhile to figure out why I was getting a parse error on line 454 of democracy.php.

Line 343 uses a short open tag, and our university’s servers have short open tags set to false.

Hello! I loved this plug-in!! I’ve installed before “wp-poll”, but I couldn’t customize it, so I’ve looked for another plugin for polls and found yours! It’s too good AND too easy, congrats!

I’d like to erase the number of votes, leaving just the percents. Is it possible? Where can I do this?

Thanks!

Hi, Thank you Andrew for the new update
I have no problem with alpha4 version, however when I update to RC1 (overwrite democracy.php, js.php, admin.js), I receive this: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/8889/democracyerror2qe.png

Forgot to say thanks to Dedge and PRpoet for the nice css fix ^^

Kenzo, READ THE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS. I thought it was clear enough by putting that in bold right next to the download link. That oughta fix it

Michael, sorry! Careless error that should be fixed in the next version

Lu, sure. Just delete line 586 of democracy.php:

$output .= " (".$r->votes.")";

Hi from Italy Eheheh Great Plugin this one! I need to use it on my blog, so I translated it in Italian. This localized version is available on my website, I only wanted to let you know

Uhhh, nice blog

Thank you, It work now

I have now just a small problem with the xhtml validator on this line in democracy.php:

jal_no_js=true&poll_id=id; ?>”>View Results

Here is the error code (6 times):
Line 461, column 78: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “PHPSESSID”
…href=”/?jal_no_js=true&poll_id=2&PHPSESSID=441ef9267e7fd7e9f352d8f7e16ed5

When I placed the whole folder into the plugins directory it didn’t show up in the plugin manager. I moved the democracy.php file outside the folder and it appeared and I was able to activate it. Now it works fine except I am unable to add another question. Any ideas?

Done!
With your hint, I removed also the “Total Votes”.
Thanks a lot!

Hey there:

I think I ran across a bug related to the not voting more than once feature.

On my site, I have 2 blogs using the same database (appended the prefix for one).

Anyway, I installed on both my blogs and it is AWESOME. Easy installation.

However, when I went to install on the second blog, it already shows me as having voted, since I did a test vote on the first blog. Could it be both blogs are sharing the same table? If so, do I need to append a prefix somewhere in one so it uses its own table?

Here are the blogs:
http://unfilterednewsnetwork.com/North_South_Blog/
http://unfilterednewsnetwork.com/Gay_Agenda_Blog/

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention on the second blog, it does not allow me to vote but shows as no votes. I also checked the database and the tables were created with the correct prefixes.

OK I went ahead and completed two completely different polls since I was using the “starter poll” on both. Still same issue. North_South_Blog shows no answers and inability to vote for me, since I voted on the other one first.

This time, I created 2 new polls but voted on NS first. Then, the GA poll was unavailable.

Any other info you need, feel free to email me.

RyanHawke, the behavior of the site has to do with the way cookies were being set. I had them being set at the root, so a vote was logged for the entire domain, instead of just the WP directory. Regardless, I believe I’ve fixed this in RC 2. Let me know if I haven’t

Err…announcing RC 2! (main changeset and small fix)

I think I’ve fixed some i18n issues, as well as re-adding HTML support.

Kenzo, I’ve added htmlspecialchars() to that bit, so the validity problem should go away. But it does seem a bit odd. You had javascript off and you’re using PHP sessions?

Jackie’s problem has been fixed elsewhere. Just don’t use that confounded plugin manager and you’ll be fine.

Hi Andrew,

I’d like to use Democracy to run a poll, but I want it not in the sidebar, but on a post or a page. How would I go about doing that? (in draft form, at least, both posts and pages just echo “”)

Also, the poll I want to run requires users to judge among a series of images; ideally, each poll option would display an image and some text under the image. Would including an image tag in the poll options work for that?

thanks for your help, and for this plugin.

best,

Matt
Matt

the code in my comment disapperaed…the text that is echoed is simply the php jal_democracy() line …

hello, i’ve installed your excellent Poll “encuesta” plug in on a site i’m building and was really satisfied with the quality of the script. It installed like a breeze and the admin panel is perfect. I have a quick question. A tiny little problem i can’t get figured out. I’m using the Connection theme and have the Category separated by the question so that the box is not connected. could you or somebody take a quick peek. i’ve played with css and tried somethings in the code but can’t seem to find the solution. i would also like to have the question set flush to the right, how or where do i edit this and what should i enter?

Ahh thanks. Yes, this is fixed.

Marco, try this:

<h2>Encuestas</h2>

<ul>
 <li><?php jal_democracy(); ?></li>
</ul>

Connections is a little weird about sidebar stuff, but that should work.

Wow! DEMOCARY ROCKS!!!

I have problems whit wp-poll, on Firefox works but not on IE.

Democracy works for IE & Firefox!!

Regards from Monterrey, MEXICO!

What I need to con center the VOTE bottom on sidebar?

I will like do to same for TGA question…

Tnx

Democracy is now available in Spanish! Download link above
Gutielua, try adding this style rule to your css file:

#democracy p { text-align: center; }

Awesome plugin! Using it right now and it looks really good. Maybe in a future release there could be a way to generate all the polls into somewhat of an archive like wp-polls.

Thanks for your excellent plugin, I implemented it on my site without any issues! You rock!

I really enjoy your plug-in … especially the flexability and single voting feature. It would be great if the polls could be archived to a single category that could be recalled by visitors to view all past polls and their results. This was a feature in the wp-polls plug-in that I would like to see in Democracy. Any chance this will happen?

Thanks again for an excellent plug-in.

John

I would give it to a solider for private mail to his family, friends, significant other… along with the other 37 I’ve donated in the last 3 months…. I love you Subscriptions for Soliders…. we gave tonight. Long live the US!

Update: Version 1.1 now has archiving functionality!

Well SOOO many people have asked for this archiving feature, so I’ve gone ahead and done it

Tell me what you think of http://blog.jalenack.com/poll-archives/ . Does it need anything more? I’ll release soon.

Right on the money. Outstanding!
Thanks, Andrew.

Just saying thank you as requested! This plugin is up to the excellent standard you set with the shout box.
No problems, no issues. It worked fine first time.
I love it.

Thanks! Just what I needed, and installation was pretty easy!

Translating the strings from english to greek results in a mess when ajax is reloading to display the results. ???? appear where greek words should be. this is an encoding issue i guess. any ideas?

So… how do I upgrade from RC 2? The heading of the readme.txt Upgrade section makes me think it doesn’t apply to me: “All versions previous to Democracy RC 1 MUST follow these simple upgrade instructions:”

Just wondering if upgrading from RC 2 means I should follow those same directions or different ones.

Hi, Thanks for the plugin. Any chance you could allow for multiple polls being active as part of the archive section?

Currently you can only have one poll active, and this is a real disadvantage for someone who wants to keep their polls running concurrently over time and have users voting on multiple polls.

If you did allow for multiple polls being active, then there would be an issue about which poll would display on the non archive section ie. <?php jal_democracy(); ?> section – that could be solved by either adding another button called ‘hightlight’ on the poll admin page, or by displaying the first in the order (order by ID).

Thanks, Alan

hey andrew! nice plugin and thank you for making it a lot easier to install than the other polls plugin

i got a question tho, can i edit the number of polls? i really want this coz i’ve already got a poll question and some answered, but i still didn’t have the poll plugin at that time.

click my site to see my blog. hoping to hear from you soon! cheers!

I have the Bad Behavior plug-in installed on my website. Democracy seems to work fine with Firefox, but when I tried to vote with IE 5, Bad Behavior blocks the computer as a spammer with the error message:

Required header ‘Accept’ missing

Andrew, I was just wondering if there is a way to allow people be able to vote every 24 hours?

OO looks like I’ve got some catching up to do.

Titanas, strange. Encoding issue most likely. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with that stuff.

Alan, I’m working on something like that. It’s pretty hard getting multiple instances of polls on the same page. You can call a specific poll by using its ID like: jal_democracy(2); …

James: glad you like it

Little_china, I have no idea what you;re talking about o_o

Matt, very very weird. Try contacting the Bad Behavior author. Are you using the latest version of BB?

Patrick, no. No plans for that. Sorry

sorry…i mean, can i edit the number of votes?

thanks!

Oh right. Well not really. If you *really* wanted to you could use something like PHPmyAdmin to change the `votes` column of the appropriate answer. Look in the DemocracyA database.

oh alright, thanks man!

I’m absolutely loving this plugin. Great work!

Dear Andrew,

I’ve tried to make your plugin run on my site, placing the code

on a PAGE (use exec-php plugin for running code inside Pages).

All I can see than is just a kind of code from democracy.php.

Could you please visit the PAGE called POLLS on my above site, to see what could be wrond.

I’m running your Wordspew too, and it works great.

thnx in advance

heiner

hi!i like your plugin, can you tell me how to change the color and width of the button and button text? thankyou!

I’ve got a questions,
I dunno why but the spammer kept hitting the js.php.
it’s on my access logs.
and i can confirm that.

any idea?

I was hoping to use this plugin to let visitors vote for specific WordPress posts by using template tags to fill in the info for a poll (post title & URL) within a WordPress Loop. That way, I could put the poll into the WordPress Loop and have a “vote for this post” button for every post, with the rest of the poll inputs determined from template tags and hidden. It looks like this is almost possible, but there is a minimum of 2 answers for a poll and that there can be only one instance of a poll on a page (does this mean putting the poll in the Loop is not allowed?). Is there a way to get around these limitations? In other words, is there a way to have a write-own-answer-only poll in the Loop? Thanks.

Remove the line “// BLIX fixies” from the css
or comment it: /* BLIX fixies */

It makes the css declaration under it invalid. In this case the input:

#democracy input { width: auto; }

Great plug btw

Whooppps. I suck. I’ve committed a fix. All that php and javascript mixed in the same package got me mixed up. Doh!

Seth, I don’t think Democracy is the right choice for what you want. I think there are some post-rating plugins around. I’ve never used one though.

Zeo, weird. I can’t think of any reason for them to do that. Let me know if you find out a good reason. thanks

Tony, you can edit the democracy.css file. It has all the color and styling information. If you don’t know CSS, good luck. I just don’t have enough time to help with individual design problems. The WP support forums are usually helpful with CSS issues.

Heiner, it looks alright. The only problem is with the blix CSS. Hopefully this fixes it. Just delete that comment in democracy.css, and it should work.

hi…i can’t figure this out, please help…

the php jal_democracy(); code was placed in between the ul code from my sidebar. The problem is that the ul code will place an image at the bottom (please check my blog). therefore the last “poll answer” has the ul-footer image.

Is there somewhere in the democracy file where I can remove the ul codes so that it wont have the footer image?

i hope you understand where im coming from…

HEllo All,

I have an issue with UTF-8 chareacters in democracy polls since I upgarded from RC-1 to 1.1.

Accented characters are replaced by strange characters but only in the result page!

To see the pbm in action:
http://82.153.160.104/blog/

Any idea what’s wrong?

Thanks

I just spent a little while debugging and I think I’ve found the solution. The text was not being sent with the right headers. I’ll be releasing a new version shortly (hopefully), but in the meantime you can try this:

if (!$javascript)
echo “\n\n\t”;
else
header(‘Content-Type: text/html; charset=’.get_option(‘blog_charset’));
?>

In your democracy.php file. Around line 520 (I think), there is a function called jal_SeeResults(). You’ll be replacing this, and all the whitespace above it between ?> and ‘; } ?>

If you don’t think you can do this, have patience and I’ll be releasing a new version soon

Just updated to 1.2. Check it out.

Installed 1.2 – It’s working now!
Many thanks.

First off, let me say thanks for such a great pluging! But like a couple of others, I’d like to have polls associated with posts, not in the sidebar. Is there a quick/easy way of doing this? (I’d even settle for a not quick or easy way).

Thanks again!

Well, not really. Check the 1.2 readme!

Didn’t want the poll on my main site (busy traffic) so I put it on a secondary page, at the bottom. Same issue:

http://celticsblog.net/cheapseats/

wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php?jal_nojs=true

The page cannot be found

Help? Thanks very much.

Jeff, it appears that the files are all in the wrong place.

First, deactivate democracy. Then delete all the democracy files you uploaded. Then upload the *whole* folder. So it should be /wp-content/plugins/democracy/ .. That folder should contain admin.js, democracy.php, democracy.css, js.php.

Then activate again.

makes sense, I’ll try that when I have time

thanks very much for the quick response

Thanks for adding those graphical bars. I just tried to install the plug-in. All 4 files are in the correct directory. I can configure the plug-in and I’ve added my first poll. How do I get the poll to show up in the sidebar? Sorry for the silly question. It doesn’t automatically show up.

Also your site is exhibiting some wierd problems in IE6 I’ve attached a screenshot at http://www.rawgreed.com/jalnack.png

Thanks!

Thanks for this plugin. I just upgraded to 1.2 – very easy!

Apologies, I got it. I forgot to add the template tag.

First off, awesome plugin. Thanks for adding the achiving option – very nice. Anyway, I saw on your archive that the bars are quite long, and thus easier to read. I’ve been searching through democracy.php, and I can’t see how to change their size. So sorry if I’m repeating someone – I skimmed over the comments, and I couldn’t see the same question being asked.

I just installed Democracy 1.2 in WP 1.5.2 and everything seemed to work fine until i tried to rock the vote:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare jal_edit_poll() in /x/x/x/x/x/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php on line 52

you can give ut a try at: http://www.phlatline.com/wp

Can anyone help me fix this prob? Please, this is a really nice plugin and i would like to use it.

Just a request, is it possible to have the view result then vote(back) without reloading the entire page?

Hi Andrew…great plugin. I’m having a problem with the CSS display of 1.2 stomping on itself. The title of the poll is being over written with CSS, so that title and first choice are overlaid. I’m still learning css, and took a look at the democracy.css, and don’t think that’s the problem. Can you recommend a fix? Site is http://www.cwcnews.net . THANKS!

Never Mind…find the culprit in the css file of BlueByeYou…thanks for a great tool…Rich

Hi,

just installed Democracy 1.2 to WP 1.5.2_fi. Looks like it works OK, but it doesn’t – only the first vote counts and the db writes only one answer and IP number – and the number is the one of servers IP. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

TIA

Jude

jude, that’s weird. Your server must be configured abnormally, using REMOTE_ADDR as the server address?

You could just comment out the jal_checkIP() calls or make it return; before doing anything. You’d lose the IP checking function, but at least it would work!

Zeo, nope sorry. Too much code for too little benefit.

FastPhive, that’s sooo strange. I really don’t know where to start!

Nik, I think 1.16 uses css percents. Is that the version you’ve got? Just make the css use percents instead of absolute pixels (you might have to change it in the democracy.php part as well).

Sorry to everyone who has written in for support lately, I’ve been really bogged down!

Awesome plug-in, it is exactly what I was looking for when I started Googleing for Word Press plug-ins for polling. I’t appears to be working perfectly in FF 1.5 and IE 6. One thing though, if a person was to veiw it in FF and vote then open the page up in IE they can vote again, I assume this works nomatter which browser you switch to, just though you may want to know this.

John, that’s actually not the case. It appears that one can vote again, but when they submit it isn’t actually counted. That’s because their IP is logged

Hi. Very nice plug in. Thanks! I have only one question. What lines do i need to comment in order to make Democracy to do NOT log ip adresses?

Thanks for the help. And good luck with your upcoming projects!

Andrew,

Is there any way to hard code the path/location in democracy? My site uses domain pointers. I have http://www.blankmindblog.com pointed to a folder in my http://www.frhendrix.com site. Democracy looks in /blog1/blog1/wp-content/plugins/democracy for democracy.php which does not exist.

thanks

Thanks for the excellent plugin! Far easier to use and manage than my previous solution

I seem to have the same problem as FastPhive getting the same error message when sending a vote.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare jal_edit_poll() in /x/x/x/x/x/htdocs/wp/wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php on line 52

I updated wp and deactivated all other plugins but the problem remains.

Admin lokks fine
tables are built
cookies are set
no vote-counting

Too bad because I saw it working great on other sites.

Trying to implement your plugin, but I do not see it in the admin-panel. I see some questions about it above, but no solution. Is there any?

I use Bunnys Technorati Tags and WP-Shortstats as plugins. Could it be that, tried to deactivate them but nothing happened, do I have to uninstall?

I use WP 1.5.2

Would really like to get it to work!

Thx

UPDATE: Fixed it! Egghead behind the keyboard

Is it going to be back available?

Says democrocy.zip doesn’t exist any more.

Sorry, It’s back.

1. Is there a way to have the candidates automatically sorted alphabetically or by the current vote count?

2. Is there a way to have multiple polls running concurrently? An example of this might be a concurrent Democrat_Primary and a Republican_Primary poll where each is independent and people can vote and/or add candidates.

After I activate the poll, I get this error.
“Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/wagnert/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php on line 637″

http://www.wagnertech.net/blog/

I’m using journalized-blue theme, and putting it in the right sidebar.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

I would like to add a space between the Poll Question and the Poll answer selection, where do I do his at?

Thanks in advance

Hi Andrew,

thank you for the great plugin !!
It’s really cool. I made some modifications and i would like to be able to send it (all the archive) to you.
But i found anywhere an email to contact you so… can you email me ?
I add the possibility to choose in admin console to show radio button (unique choice) or checkbox (multiple choice), a link to go directly to the admin console of democracy, the possibility to activate more than one poll and show them in random order (the “old way” is available too you just have to activate only one poll), modify the table in admin console to show if a poll allow user to change answer etc. and lot of other things…
Thanks again for your excellent work, and if you want, do not hesitate to contact me

Pierre

Very nice! I love AJAX and was looking for a poll plugin using Ajax. This does it well.

Love this – Great work!

Thanks for a very nice (and easy) plugin!

Hey Man,

So glad I searched on to this easy 2 use pluggin. It’s just doing the job, easy install instead of changing several php-files. Keep on brother doing this great job

Is there a way to modify the number of votes as admin. I’m moving from wp_poll to democracy and would like to copy my old my old posts and answers and don’t want to lose my old data. I just want to recreate my old poll questions and the number of answers. YIKES!

ok, great pluggin
but is there away (or other pluggin) to disable the ip-check….
for one reason,, my colleagues at work can’t vote because.. there is someing like a proxy server… and since most people don’t work but mostly internet at their desks ))

Does anybody know how to make the poll answers horizontal with the radio button below each option?

Hello,

I’m thinking about implementing this plug-in, but I’m concerned about what happens with people who are behind a proxy server. Since I would only ever see the proxy server’s IP, does that mean that only one person behind the proxy would ever get a chance to vote?

To Frenzy:
Yep, only one person of the company where I work can vote ;-( if they’re using a proxy

Thanks for the plug-in!

One problem, both my wife at her job, and I can clear cookies and vote all we want, so the ip checking is not working on my site. Does anyone have any ideas?

Do I have to give certain permissions to a file or something?

Thanks for the plug-in! This is something that I would ask for I have had time
Keep on coding… please!

Andrew, thanks for the plugin man. Nice.

100 times better then WP polls!! Awesome plug in!

Fantastic… just what I wanted. Tried lots of other polls but you need to be a rocket scientist to get them to work. Very easy to set-up.

Cheers Jaron

Cool stuff!

Well, well done! So much easier than trying to get AdvancedPoll to work in the system… muchos gracias for your hard work.

Hi… Very nice plugin, but unfortunately it is not work 8(. I made all installation and I can even see the pool on my sidebar, but it is not counting the votes. I tried myself and asked a friend of mine to do it, but is still not working. Do you have any idea how can I fix it??? You can try at http://www.bluetoothlounge.com/
Again, very good job. Please, we need more cool stuff like this one.

Thanks

It’s very easy to use. I like it… Thanks. Andrew.

On our site when user votes it shows the results but if you go to some other page or hit refresh results dissapear and you can vote again (but it doesn’t count).

Why are results not remaining after the vote???

On our site when user votes it shows the results but if you go to some other page or hit refresh results dissapear and you can vote again (but it doesn’t count).

Why are results not remaining after the vote???

CONFIRMED, they all have this, some use of cookies would be nice….

Also if you vote, it takes a while before the results are shown. This makes me click vote a lot. Maybe a message like: You vote is being added. When you click vote will solve this.

And an option to have multiple choiches. Now you can only chose 1 option. Would be nice if it was set in admin per poll if you can choose just one or more options in a poll.

Add these things and it will be a nr 1 AJAXpoll

I’m happy with Democracy’s current feature set.

Andrew, can you please answer my question above.
I just want users can vote only once (like on your page) and when they come back they would automatically see results. I know this works in Democracy but not on my site?
Thanks for your answer.

Mate!

It sounds like a fantastic plugin and more comprehensive than all the rest but it doesnt seem to work for me?!

When I go to activate the plugin I get these errors at the top of the page:

—-

WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for 'timestamp']
CREATE TABLE wp_democracyQ ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, question varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ”, voters text NULL default ”, allowusers enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, active enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, PRIMARY KEY (id) )

WordPress database error: [Table 'richardsmagic.wp_democracyq' doesn't exist]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyQ VALUES (1, ‘Rate my site’, ’1135266993′, ”, ’0′, ’0′);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '1' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (1, 1, ‘Best. Blog. Ever.’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '2' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (2, 1, ‘Could be better…’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '3' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (3, 1, ‘My grandma could make a better website!’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '4' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (4, 1, ‘Ooo look, a butterfly!’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '5' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (5, 1, ‘No Comment’, 0, 0);

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-includes\wp-db.php:98) in C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-admin\admin.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-includes\wp-db.php:98) in C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-admin\admin.php on line 11

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-includes\wp-db.php:98) in C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-admin\admin.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-includes\wp-db.php:98) in C:\xampplite\htdocs\rmagic\wp-admin\admin.php on line 13
—-

I can ignore them and click “manage” > “democracy” but I get these errors too:

–above the no active polls warning–
WordPress database error: [Table 'richardsmagic.wp_democracyq' doesn't exist]
SELECT id FROM wp_democracyQ WHERE active = ’1′
—-

…and…

–just below the manage polls title–
WordPress database error: [Table 'richardsmagic.wp_democracyq' doesn't exist]
SELECT * from wp_democracyQ ORDER BY id
—-

Any idea what Im doing wrong here please, anyone?!

I would really love to get a decent polls program running on the website!

Cheers, Richard (all the way from Australia!)

thx for it goona try it on my site

What about upgrade for WordPress 2.0? It doesn’t seem to work with this version.

Hi. Thanks for the cool plug-in. Looking forward to using it a lot but so far I’m having problems getting the poll to format the way I want it. I’d like it to look like the polls at

http://bikeportland.org/polls/

but instead the pool is formatting horizontally and wrapping and it looks kinda funky. I’ve tried messing with the css file (I do have a basic understanding of css) but with no success. Here’s the address:

http://www.johnhorneguitar.com/archives/2006/01/01/practice-poll/

I’m using a customized version of the Minima Plus theme and WordPress 2.0. Also, I’m using Exec-PHP 2.0 to put the php into a post.

Hope you can advise-thanks.
John

Sorry about this, but the address I posted earlier has changed to:

http://www.johnhorneguitar.com/polls/

Hope to hear from someone (especially Andrew) Thanks!

Great plugin, thanks! I’m using it already. So easy to set up and use.

Schweeeet plugin!

How hard would it be to be able to associate a poll with a post?

So the poll showed up only on that post page?

Just curious!

Poll results that are displayed after a vote disappear with a page refresh. Any ideas as to how I can get the results to persist for people who have already voted in a pole? Thanks for the great plug-in.

well i just decided to give Democracy a go (haha – that sounds funny ) but i can’t get it to work in posts? does this only work in the sidebar? is there a way i can get a poll to display in a post? that would be really neat, and fit my needs perfectly.

hope that’s not too hard to do…

To: 161. Richard
I got the same error on database creation and solved it like this:
1) Delete the already created table wp_democracyA in your database.
2) Open democracy.php in your plugin-folder, search for code:
timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ”,
and replace it by:
timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ’0′,
3) Go to WP-admin-panel and activate the plugin.
That’s it, have fun!

This is a something I have been looking for quite a while.

However, before I use it I have few questions.

What is the exact reason of having an active poll?
Can archive polls be unarchived?
Is there a way to display one random poll on maybe a new visit or page load or similar?

@ 171: Enno DUMMER

Thank you for that help, I had the same problem as 161: Richard. My poll works now thanks to you.

I have a different quirk with the Shoutbox since I upgraded to WP 2.0. Before, if I was signed in, it would automatically fill my name in but now, even when I sign into my blog, it thinks I’m just some random guest. Any ideas?

Yes, I will post this question in the proper area, but I thought I would ask here also.

Thanks in advance.

~~ MAK

What a fun plug in and so well documented in the readme that it worked right off the bat! Amazing! Thanks for all your hard work.

This is a great plugin, and with a bit of twiddling, I integrated it nicely into my site. Took forever to find a decent poll app, and now I’ve finally found yours! Thanks a lot!

Is this plugin compatible with the latest release of WordPress, v2.0?

Hi. Just installed Democracy 1.2 and noticed that deleting the only poll (default one) throws errors on the management page. Just for the sake of keeping a tidy plugin, you might want to look at that.. something along the lines of (if sizeof(..) { } )

please port this awesome plugin to wp 2.0! will be VERY appreciated

Hi, thanks for this great plugin!

I was wondering if it would be possible to call upon the poll in a post, so not by giving it a permanent place in the sidebar or something? Thanks!

Let me throw in another request for a WP 2.0 update! Perhaps someone should a poll together to see how many people want it to be updated

How do I get it to appear on my side bar ??? I have installed the plugin, created a poll and have activated it. Now what ?? I have read all blogs on this , no where have seen mention of this. Maybe I am the stupid guy, but please humour me !!

don’t bother .. it was me !!

Will it be possible make this work for individual posts instead of the sidebar?

This would allow an application that lets readers vote on the story,or vote on a last line question relating to the individual post….

This would be very popular I do believe…

Any chance you could please fix the download link or could someone please create a mirror .

The download link is leading to an error page

Sorry, fixx0red!

Hi,
I like your plugin very much. There’s just one thing I’m missing: I’d like to create polls where my visitors can vote for several options at the same time.

Is it possible to add this functionality?

Thanks
Hulmgulm

Hello,

I’m using the Democracy plug in for a radio show that we’re developing. We’d like to make it so that only we can see the results, but users would see a message that says “Listen to next week’s show for poll results.”

How can this be made possible?

Thanks for any guidance.

-Isaac

Hi Andrew! Thanks for the plugin, but i get an error with IE because there is aa big white space around the poll choice, what can I do?
Thanks

i put your voting script on my asianhottestblogger.com site but when visitor vote on the name ‘yun’ , it is not working. pls try out yourself.

appreciate a prompt response as there is a major contest running.

jeff

I put the script on my website http://edenaar.nl but it doesn’t work. Can somebody take a look at it?

I still got the SESSID amperstand validation error described by Kenzo in XHTML 1.0T, using version 1.2 clean install running WP 2.0.

I fixed (I hope) it using:
ini_set('arg_separator.output','&');

..as discribed here: http://www.w3.org/QA/2005/04/php-session

I would be grateful if someone would like to test it out at mu site: teees.com (Three E’s)

Very Nice, Thank you. Excellent work

Really nice plugin! Thank you!

My two requests: ability to activate/deactivate a poll, and the ability to show a random poll (selected from the ‘active’ polls) in the sidebar.

I would imagine the archive then to simply list the polls chronologically, and clicking on the name of an active poll to take you to an archive page that has just that poll so a person can vote in it.

Yep – you guessed it — I’ve got wants, but no PHP skills at all.

Thank you!

I am impressed with this page…setup really nice. Doesn’t take forever to load pics, like mine… Very impressive.. http://lincoln.ziarc.com

How can i create a page with a poll (like yours)?? what code i have to use??

Simple, Easy… just right. No problems installing. Thanks bunches.

Hello, thank you for Democracy.
Could you let me know there the IP’s are stored in the database. I checked wp_democracyA and wp_democracyQ tables, but couldn’t locate the IP’s ?
Are they stored in another field elsewhere?

thank you!

Thank you Andrew, awesome work!

I was wondering if one-click voting was possible instead of radio buttons. I think I’ll tinker with that a bit later. After all, Chaos & Destruction are some of the services I offer

Great plug-in! We’ve deployed in our website – very easy to install, update and use. Thank you.

How can I remove the IP restriction so that co-workers or family members can vote in my polls?

Installed it. Working perfectly. No problems at all except my page is validating. Could you please check?

Great plugin, thanks Andrew!

I have two questions…

1.) Is it possible to stop the voting (or expire)? So people can only see the resultat from the poll. Example: For a week the people can vote on myne poll, but after that i want only that u can see the resultat from the past week.

2.) Can i archive the poll?

Greetings from the Netherlands,

Eddie

I had the plugin working fine with my website below:

http://www.2006-winter-olympics-turin-italy.com/blog/

Then I went and added a new poll and deleted the old one and now it is not showing up. Any ideas what happended?

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong here. Does this plugin work with WP 2.0.1, and does this version of WP have AJAX? I assumed the answer was “yes” to both, but I follow the instructions step by step to #2 where I go to the plugin panel to activate, but it’s not showing up. I put the entire Democracy folder here:

/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/Democracy

What am I missing? New to WP, so that might explain things?

Thanx…

Is this plugin compatible with wordpress 2.0.1? I cannot get the admin panel (or am I looking in the wrong place? – I am looking on the wordpress admin and cannot find something like polls)

Help please!

Manage > Democracy

Andrew nice work. Plugin works well with the wordpress2.1 but my problem is slightly different then others as u know that this plugin check he IP address and u can only vote once insted of that I want to vote more then once. Is there any ways i can stop this IPcheck function? If u assist me in this direction that would be a gr8 help

Thanks for the great plugin.

Simon

Hi,
Good plugin. Two questions though,
first : Is there a way to remove the IP Restriction?
Second : It would be really cool if there was a “Archive” Page where you or the users could view all the old polls and their results. Thanks…

PLEASE consider adding a feature so I can make polls in posts. Thanks!!!

Hi!

Very nice Plugin Thanks!

But i have a problem. When i visit my site in Microsoft IE i see mainly the Vote theme to vote, on Firefox i see the results and i can not vote. What could i do, to see on firefox the Vote theme, too?

greets

OMG what an awesome plugin! Had it added in no time, and works like a charm. And it’s exactly the sort of poll that I was looking for. Thank you!!

Thank you SO MUCH for developing this plugin!

It is working beautifully (and fully XHTML-validated) over at http://www.officetally.com, with the following tweaks:

- IP logging turned off
- Polls (and archive) are displayed on pages, with the help of phpexec
- Various styling changes to match look and feel of OfficeTally

I *love* how I am able to insert HTML right into the poll choices!

Looking forward to seeing v2.0. (especially multiple choice checkbox polls and multiple polls per page functionality).

Thanks again,
tanster

I’ve been using this for about a month now, and I have a visitor that always seems to get an error saying “Go stuff the ballot box elsewhere!”. What is that about and what is causing it?

This is pretty cool!

I love this plugin, thanks for writing it. But I’m having a little trouble with the display– the radio buttons appear above the choice labels, and there also a mysterious black dot thrown in. Soemtimes there’s no hover effect. It just doesn’t look right.

Admittedly, this may be a result of my trying to throw up a site while remaining utterly ignorant about the how-tos. I don’t know the difference between PHP and PGP. I can’t tell CSS from CSI. I think Ajax is the blue-dot cleanser. I could go on. Still, any suggestions?

Hi there, i’m using the spanish version, all ok, but I need to know where I can change these texts: Add an Answer – View Results

Have a nice time

I cannot download it. Is there a new version coming out today or something?

same problem here. unable to download the zip file. the file is missing?

i’m still unable to download the file

Where’s the plugin? Get blank page when I click on the link. Thx.

Fixed, sorry

Downloaded Democracy, and it rawks! Thank you so much, Andrew.

I don’t know if the author plans to add an archives feature in v2.0, but in the meantime, here’s a workaround for those who want to have their polls archived. Maybe a little more work than you want to do, but it’ll work.

When you close a poll, do a screenshot of the results, cut the poll results out of the screenshot JPG, save it to an image to be uploaded to a “previous polls and results” post in your blog. You can then add a link underneath your current poll that says “Previous Polls” that will take your visitors to that blog post with the images of previous polls on it. Just a thought.

If you don’t know how to do a screenshot, it’s easy. Here are some simple instructions to make one:

1. Open your browser so you see the poll results clearly -

2. Press and hold your “Control” button on your keyboard, with your other hand, press the button that says “Print Scrn” (right above the “F10″ button on my keyboard) -

3. Open an image viewer/editor – MSPaint, VuePro, etc. – should work with any of ‘em… you just need to be able to crop an image with it and save it as a new image -

4. Click the “Edit” dropdown, then click “paste image” – you should now be looking at your screenshot – an image of your entire browser screen with your poll results showing somewhere on there -

5. Crop out the poll results only, then save as a new .jpg image -

6. Make that post on your blog for “Previous Polls”, upload the image to it.

Look at my current poll in my blog’s right-hand column if you want to see an example of this. Since I’ve just started using Democracy, the old polls were with NeoMyz, but it’s the same idea regardless. The current and future images will be Democracy captures obviously, but you’ll get the idea.

A link to my blog for an example

Not exactly what everybody’s looking for, but it’ll do ’til Andrew has the time to get around to adding an Archives feature.

Hope this helps.

I have these little black dots in front of each radio button, anyone know how I can get rid of them?

Tyler, what worked for me on this problem was to add the following statement to the ol, ul definition on the theme’s style sheet:

list-style-type: none;

I don’t know if that’s the RIGHT way to fix it, but it worked.

I’m still having a problem with the choice lables appear below the radio buttons, rather than on the same line, and would appreciate help from anyone who knows how to fix that.

The poll does not work for me in IE. Firefox works fine. In IE the vote is simply not counted. You get the options and the vote button. Select and click vote and the results are displayed but the vote is not in the count. I created several pools and this was is case every time.

The fist person to vote with IE works, the vote is counted. No one else can vote with IE after that. I tried firefox on serval different systems and pools and it always worked perfectly.

Thanks

ATT: Richard and Enno

The following change works in democracy.php:

1.- Replace all instances of timestamp to something else e.g. time.

2.- Edit line 493:
time TIMESTAMP NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,

3.-Deactivate and Reactivate the plugin.

How can i display old polls on an extra site?
How to create a poll Archiv?

Thanks

Great plug-in. I know you’ve been asked this before, but is there a way to remove the IP restriction? Almost everyone accesses my site from our intranet at work, hence the IP addresses are all the same. Thanks.

Is it possible to show only certain polls using the jal_democracy_archives() function? Right now, it looks like it shows all but the most recent one, but I’d only like to show some of them. Is this possible?

For some reason, this plugin isn’t setting a cookie on my site. Do you have any clue why that’d be?

Ok thx for this great plugin,

Just one thing to change can you add in the next version in function jal_democracy the rel=”nofollow” in order to bot like GGbot don’t index twice the same page.

Like that :

jal_add_user_answer=true” id=”jalAddAnswer” rel=”nofollow”>Add an Answer

Merci beaucoup

Hi to all is there a way to show all users ip in my democracy admin panel

Hey…stupid question. Sorry. You say to insert a template tag? What should be the specific verbiage I insert into my sidebar theme? Thanks in advance.

Hi!
Great plugin! -I haven’t managed to make it work yet…
I’ve installed and activated it alright. I have the admin interface to create polls and all but…. the poll doesn’t appear on the side bar.
I installed automattic’s widgets, could that be a problem?
Thanks

Hi!
For some strange reason i can’t get the graphs coloured… does somebody know why?
Thank you very much!

I put the poll on the sidebar, but i want it to just show on the main page, not on single posts. What should i do?

And how i create i page with all the old polls?

Nice plug in. Too bad I can’t get it to work. I get this error

WordPress database error: [Table 'coroblog.wp_democracyQ' doesn't exist]
SELECT id FROM wp_democracyQ WHERE active = ’1′

. Hopefuly someone can help me.

Hi there,

This plugin looks great but I’m having a bit of a problem, coz I don’t know exactley how to install. I put it on my server and activated it in wordpress, but now I have to ‘place a template tag in theme where want the poll to appear, and I don’t know (exactly) how to do this. I’m guessing putting a bit of code in sidebar.php, but exactly what code? I’m very sorry if this is a stupid question but I just couldn’t find the answer anywhere.

Thanx in advance, Hans.

Hi, Andrew. I have created a little plugin to use Democracy as a sidebar widget. It requires Democracy to be installed, it is just a mere widget interface.

I’ve got the plugin working, even in posts, thank you. My question, which I saw someone asked above, but I didn’t see an answer, is there any way to have the answers appear to the right of the voting circle, instead of underneath? Thanks for sharing this plugin1

Serious problem with Democracy Poll? I’ve been running your software on my very busy site for quite some time. Problematically, democracy seems to fire up a php.exe process that never closes. My site is very busy, tonight, with Democracy installed, I had 300 php.exe processes. When I took it out of the sidebar the number dropped to about 10.

Contact me via email if you’d like more information or to discuss.

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I keep getting these errors on activation.

WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for 'timestamp']
CREATE TABLE wp_democracyQ ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, question varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ”, voters text NULL default ”, allowusers enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, active enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, PRIMARY KEY (id) )

WordPress database error: [Table 'ibears.wp_democracyq' doesn't exist]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyQ VALUES (1, ‘Rate my site’, ’1146240566′, ”, ’0′, ’0′);

I’m running wp 2.0 on php 5/mysql 5. Any suggestions?

I’m having the same problem as Alter in post 238, but I don’t have widgets installed. Can’t see the polls in IE or firefox…everything seems to be installed correctly though.

Hi,

i have had some minor problems with the 1.0 RC 1 Version – but they look beeing history since i’d install the new one. (Translated German Verion http://www.jessman.com/stuff/democracy_1.2_(de).zip)
Upgrading was very easy too – no dataloss after changing the democracy-folders! very fine!

thanks (to both of you for this nice plugin

best regards
Clemens from Berlin

Great plugin!

Is there any way to allow ‘editor’ level users to manage/create/delete polls? Right now it seems as if only the ‘admin’ level can get at the Manage -> Democracy page.

Thanks!

For those who wanted to know how to insert the template tag: there are instructions in the readme.txt file in the download folder. Open this txt file in your browser. What you do is:

Add where you want the poll to appear, typically in your sidebar.
Then Go to Admin Panel > Manage > Democracy to add and edit polls. You’ll need to activate the default poll if you want it.

Any way to let visitors vote for more than one option in a poll?

Hello, thanks for the plugin very much!
but i’ve got an error of using this plugin(Version 1.2).
when i activate democracy, the error shown:

WordPress database error: [Access denied for user 'yscr_bbSUSd'@'localhost' to database 'home']
ALTER TABLE wp_democracyQ ALTER COLUMN timestamp SET DEFAULT ”

Therefore, the polling in my site is not working now. Could you please help??
Thanks a lot.

I’m sorry to re-ask this question, but I’ve posted it here, emailed it to the plug-in author and I still haven’t heard anything.

Is there a way to let voters vote for more than one item in a poll? I’m looking for a check-all-that-apply kind of thing.

Anyone?

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WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'id' in 'field list']
SELECT id FROM wp_democracyQ WHERE active = ’1′

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'sdgf', 0)' at line 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA (qid, answers, votes) VALUES (, ‘sdgf’, 0);

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'dsfg', 0)' at line 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA (qid, answers, votes) VALUES (, ‘dsfg’, 0);

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'dsfg', 0)' at line 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA (qid, answers, votes) VALUES (, ‘dsfg’, 0);

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'dfsg', 0)' at line 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA (qid, answers, votes) VALUES (, ‘dfsg’, 0);
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I’ve encountered the same problem others have mentioned. It seems the database is not created when the plugin is activated.

Is there a fix to this problem?

I have downloaded your plugin and will test it first at localhost. If everythings works fine I will put up on my site. Thanks for the plugin.

Hi, This is a cool plugin and suits exactly what I need. But I’m a novice in scripts. I downloaded the plugin and activated it in WordPress. I know that somewhere I have to write a script for the poll to show. I have the template for the sidebar poll. But I dont know what the php script is and where to insert it. This is a beginner question for some of you. I know. But I really could use some help please

Hello, thanks for the plugin but how can I activate multiple polls at the same time?

i cannot run the poll plugin properly. after activating the plugin, the table for the question is not created.

WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for 'timestamp']
CREATE TABLE wp_democracyQ ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, question varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ”, voters text NULL default ”, allowusers enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, active enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, PRIMARY KEY (id) )

WordPress database error: [Table 'wordpress.wp_democracyq' doesn't exist]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyQ VALUES (1, ‘Rate my site’, ’1148749275′, ”, ’0′, ’0′);

Hi- I saw someone mention this problem up in this mountain of comments, and I was having it as well:

1) you see the poll and vote with no problem, and it displays your results as expected

2) you go to another page on the same site and it appears to ask you to vote again (doesn’t show results) — but it doesn’t count your vote

This is caused by (perhaps other ways, this is one way) Democracy’s javascript setting the domain in the cookie to your WP directory; not a problem if that’s where your site lives (and the right thing to do), but if you split your WP and public site locations (“WP Address” and “Blog Address” in WP admin), you will see this problem.

For my use I just replaced the domain with ‘/’ (root directory) as that’s where my site lives. You can prob use WP functions to figure it out if your setup is different, or be naughty and hardcode it. This is line #126 in js.php, Democracy v.1.2.

Cheers

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but i think u must add a badword filter and striptag

the ajax 1.2 poll can´t support MySQL 5.0 fix the bug
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the 261. kalabaw error is a MySQL Error. the plugin works fine in MySQL 4.0 but in 5.0 servers shows this error

My hosting just upgraded to MySQL 5.0 and i found Democracy not to work again… any suggestions=?

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Hi there. Love the poll and it works just great. I miss the ability to remove number of votes. I would like to show results as a percentage only (so no number of votes beside every option and no “total votes”). How do I do that? Thanks!

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Hi! I’ve translated this plugin to brazilian portugueses. How Can I send to you? (like the guy who translated to spanish).

Hi

Thanks for a great plugin. I have one problem on my site, I want to turn off the images on the plugin but I can’t get it to work – can oyu help please?

thanks

Everton

Yepp, my Dreamhost-hosted site uses MySQL 5.0.18 and I’m getting the same errors as the other folks, when trying to activate the plugin.

Dude, your democracy plug-in rocks. So much better than the hacked together crap I was doing before. Please let me know when 2.0 is ready!

I just installed Democracy and it looks like exactly what I’m looking for. However, when I put my first poll up in a post the formatting was kind of blocky. I’ve checked out other people’s polls and they all look fine. I must be missing something. I’m guessing I need to either change the css or link to the css. I’m new to all of this, so I’m just not sure what I’m missing.

All I want is for the choices to be next to the buttons and to not have bullets. Here the address of the post. Any ideas?

http://claytonandteresa.com/wordpress/?p=25

Excellent plug-in: Two minutes to download and read the documentation, another ten minutes to set everything up. In under fifteen minutes I had my first poll live.

I let my readers at http://alphatracks.com know that the poll was created with the Deomocracy plug-in for WordPress.

Thanks for the great work. — Tom

I have tried to install the plugin but get this error…

WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for 'timestamp']
CREATE TABLE wp_democracyQ ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, question varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ”, voters text NULL default ”, allowusers enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, active enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, PRIMARY KEY (id) )

WordPress database error: [Table 'hkdagen_dk_db.wp_democracyQ' doesn't exist]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyQ VALUES (1, ‘Rate my site’, ’1153309353′, ”, ’0′, ’0′);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '1' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (1, 1, ‘Best. Blog. Ever.’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '2' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (2, 1, ‘Could be better…’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '3' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (3, 1, ‘My grandma could make a better website!’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '4' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (4, 1, ‘Ooo look, a butterfly!’, 0, 0);

WordPress database error: [Duplicate entry '5' for key 1]
INSERT INTO wp_democracyA VALUES (5, 1, ‘No Comment’, 0, 0);

Easy setup! Nice work. Thanks

i get the same error as Jeppe Engell

I’ve found that with lighttpd the vars Send/GetDemocracy (in js.php) are not correctly set, so the plugin doesn’t work.

Great plugin, I just wish I could use/show more than one poll at a time. Looking forward to version 2.0

I got the same MySQL errors as some of you above. I’m using MySQL 5.0.22 and the default format for the data type timestamp should be ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′. Nevertheless, I’m not sure if the default is supposed to be set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. Do the installations again (ie. remove the files from the plugins directory and start over) or run the MySQL query manually should solve the problem.

The query is:

CREATE TABLE yourWordPressDBName.wp_democracyQ ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, question varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, voters text NULL default ”, allowusers enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, active enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, PRIMARY KEY (id) )

Great poll plug-in but I’ve got a question. When you vote are the results updated immediately? I’ve voted from a couple of different computers and I can’t seem to get the votes to register in my poll? I’m using WP 2.0.2. Do I need to adjust something?

I have the error:

WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for 'timestamp']
ALTER TABLE wp_democracyQ ALTER COLUMN timestamp SET DEFAULT ''


so I had to de-activate democracy.

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There seems to be a problem with my poll that’s never happened before.

The poll has 48 choices. 174 has voted and suddenly it doesn’t seem to update the votes anymore.

People can still vote but the new votes aren’t added. What’s up?

Hmmm… I turned off a bunch of plugins and it seems to be working again.

I can’t remember all I turned off but here’s some:
wp-polls, wp-email, wp-stat, and some google sitemap plugin.

Does this work with 2.0? Also, a sample on this page would be nice.

Quick question. If you have not voted on a poll yet but others have you get the option of “view results” What I was wondering is once you have voted is there a “hide results” feature?

Is there a demo of this plugin?

Hi. Your plugin is not working right with mysql 5.0. You need to address this now.

I see it has been asked before, yet not asnwerd.

A lot of my users get the message “Go stuff the ballot box elsewhere!” on a blank page.

How do I get rid of this, so that everyone can vote?

when activating i get:

WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for 'timestamp']
CREATE TABLE wp_democracyQ ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, question varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”, timestamp int(10) NOT NULL default ”, voters text NULL default ”, allowusers enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, active enum(’0′,’1′) NOT NULL default ’0′, PRIMARY KEY (id) )

I’ve added the poll to my wordpress site and the basic functions of the poll seem to work fine, however, even with the “Allow users to add answers” option checked, I cannot see how/where a user can add their answer. Suggestions?

Nevermind, I’m a doofus. That option disappears once you’ve voted, doesn’t it?

Is there an easy way to “Pool” heading on the sidebar when there is no active pool in the plugin?

I have deactivated my current pool and my sidebar have an empty listed heading for the “Pool”

Hi,

I installed your plugin and it looks good but functions bad. I get an error page and a strange link when I press vote:

http://www.en4us.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/democracy/democracy.php?jal_nojs=true

Though I have read most of the instructions and faqs, still I can’t help doing it!

We use your great plugin to vote for a place to eat. We eould like to force voters and choosers to be registered. Is there a way to prevent “guests” from adding options or voting?

“place a template tag in your theme where you want the poll to appear”

Could you explain what a template tag is to those who are new to WordPress? I’ve got your plugin uploaded and activated, but I’m not sure what to do next. Thanks much!

Could someone please take a peek at a new blog I’m starting, and tell me how to get rid of the bullets and align the text with the selections, I’d really appreciate it. I’ve seen many of the other polls on other sites, and they’re gorgeous!

I am NOT a php pro, so please provide simple instructions. If I can get this poll to work right, then I’ll put it on my main blog, on another domain.

I spent hours and hours yesterday and today installing and deleting several other poll/survey plugins, including wp-polls, and this seems by far the easiest to install.

thanks so much,
Bree

Never mind my last post…I played with it, and now I can’t even get it to appear on that site anymore!

But I did manage to get the poll on my #1 blog off my main domain, in the side bar, and it looks awesome! I’m very happy with it!

Looking forward to the upgrade!
thanks,
~Bree

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PLEASE, can someone tell me and the rest of us how to disable IP logging. This question has been asked so many times, but we haven’t received an answer yet.

I’m getting ready to install WordPress 2.0 on a colleague’s domain, and want to install Democracy on her blog too; however, everyone at her job is using the same IP address because they’re on a network.

I was hoping to get this installed and setup for her this weekend!

I’m also getting ready to run my yearly Pet Halloween Costume Contest, and would like voters to be able to come back each day and vote for their favorite pet!

Please…simple instructions on how to disable IP logging.

thanks!
~Bree

Is there a way to allow votes from the same IP…All 5,000 of the students at my college have the same address…Only one vote gets counted…

Help!

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Great plugin, but a huge problem.

I have hundreds of URLs with ?jal_add_user_answer=true appended at the end.

I’m very concerned about duplicate content. How can this issue be resolved?

I went ahead and de-activated it. Appending the “?jal_no_js=true” to the URLs will cause tons of duplicate content to be indexed.

I can’t risk the issue in Google, and I doubt anyone can. A search of “inurl:?jal_no_js=true” shows 1/2 half million pages already indexed like that.

My suggestion would be to come up with both a 1) robots.txt exclusion and 2) rel = nofollow tag to minimize the damage.

I also know there’s other variations of the URL, so there are now probably many millions of pages in Google that are exact duplicates of the original.

Hey. I installed Democracy on my site but when ever a vote is cast, an error is displayed at the top of the page. Could some one take a look and get back to me?

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I was thinking in using this plugin but in the trackbacks to this post you can read that there’s a bug that can cause to lost your pagerank forever due to a bug in this fabulous plugin (in spanish):

http://empresayweb.com/blog/?p=28

Or this other in english:

http://www.blogherald.com/2006/09/17/serious-seo-issue-in-popular-wordpress-plugin/

Is there a fix for the google problem? http://www.blog-republic.com/2006/09/17/wordpress-democracy-plugin-warning-seo-nightmare/

I use WordPress 2.0.4 and I can register “Democracy” plugin. It dont work

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Hi, I have a problem displaying the polls,..I use the sidebar editor plugin and I cant manage do display democracy. I tried the but without any luck.
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot

?php jal_democracy(1); thats what i tried

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How do you make it so that visitors can’t see the results of the poll? Thanks.

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Hi guy… it’s possibile view the voters’ ip logs?

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