Cast your vote survey?

CMS & WordPress
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I honestly don’t even know what you would call this. It’s not quite a poll or survey, but sort of…

Basically what I have is a Site of the Month promo on my site. I have a set page that shows the current SOTM information, the past SOTM information, and then I have a tab called Who’s next?

Basically I want to put a form of sorts on that page where someone can enter a URL and it casts a vote. The most votes win for the upcoming month.

I know most polls ask you to enter options for people to choose from but there are too many sites that I could have as options. I would rather just allow them to input a URL as the vote and all votes for that matching URL are grouped together so the most votes win…

Im sure theres a way to do this but I havent the slightest notion…

I should include Im using WordPress so if there is a Plugin available that would be even better.

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That in itself could be tricky - for example, what about protocols (https vs http), sub domains, trailing slashes on the url etc.

Are you looking for a ready made solution or are you able to implement something yourself?

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the thing is the community i am a part of doesnt have a whole lot of websites. theres probably 30 of us at most. so it wouldn’t be a whole lot of data. im sure most people would actually choose the same URL for their vote.

I’d like a ready made but if it’s easy enough i could do something myself. Im terrible with java and all that though

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If it is a limited number of websites, perhaps it would be better as a dropdown list? 30 would be doable.

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true but there are a few of those sites that i dont actually know of and i would hate to leave someone out. unless i could do a drop down menu and then have a “suggest your own” section so they could write in someone i forgot.

I shoulda said there are about 30 POPULAR sites. theres a lot of sites in our community just about 30 well known that i believe people would vote for.

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Maybe try a logging in system to enable voting.

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i have no idea what that is

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I believe WordPress has a default logging in system that can be configured so that only registered users can post comments. My WordPress knowledge is limited and no doubt others could suggest solutions.

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Could it be done manually, I mean manually count the sites/votes in a collected flat file, maybe by sorting the domains in your editor. You said the number of sites was small, maybe also the votes aren’t too many to be processed in your editor. :slight_smile:

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