Learn how to make a WordPress questionnaire with a few simple steps. This guide shows you how to design a questionnaire in WordPress using easy-to-use tools.
Approximate read time: 4 minutes
Getting meaningful feedback from an audience shouldn't feel like pulling teeth.
But, for many businesses, it does. A well-crafted questionnaire on a WordPress website can change that.
A WordPress questionnaire makes improving a business's services, understanding an audience, or gathering opinions much easier. Best of all, you don't need to be a tech expert to create one.
In this guide, we'll show you how to create a questionnaire in WordPress in just a few steps.
So, let's dive in.
Why create a questionnaire?
Questionnaires are a fast and easy way to learn about your audience's thoughts.
They offer quick answers and give information you can act on quickly. So here's why they're worth it:
- Understand your audience: Instead of guessing what customers want, ask them. A questionnaire can help you learn their needs and preferences.
- Improve offerings: Use feedback to make products or services better. Hearing it straight from an audience helps you know what to improve.
- Boost engagement: When you ask for opinions, people feel heard. This builds trust and keeps them coming back.
Questionnaires give you the answers you need quickly and with less work. And that's great for everyone.
How to create a questionnaire in WordPress
Formidable Forms is the best way to easily create a questionnaire in WordPress.
It's the best WordPress form plugin and it makes creating any type of form easy. Plus, its Survey and Polls add-on is perfect for surveys and questionnaires. And its AI form builder makes it even faster by only needing a simple prompt to create a form for you!
While the free version of Formidable Forms gives you limited questionnaire features, the Surveys and Polls add-on will give you all the necessary features. It's available in Formidable's Business plan or above.
To grab it, use the button below.
Then, it's just three easy steps:
Step 1: Install and activate Formidable Forms and the Survey add-on
Once you have Formidable Forms Pro, follow this guide to install and activate the plugin on a WordPress site.
Next, in this WordPress dashboard, go to Formidable → Add-Ons and search for the Surveys and Polls add-on.
Click the Install button to activate the add-on. Once it's activated, it's time to create the questionnaire!
Step 2: Create a questionnaire
Next, go to Formidable → Forms and click the Add New button to create a form.
Then, there are a few different options for creating a form: start from scratch, use a pre-built WordPress form template, or use AI to create a form.
Feel free to choose whichever best suits your needs, but we'll use the Create a blank form option to create a questionnaire from scratch.
Next, the plugin opens the drag and drop form builder where you can start designing your form.
Here, we can add any fields we need. For example, we can add a Dropdown, Radio Buttons, Likert Scale, Star Ratings, or a Multiple Choice field to gather information on a questionnaire.
All it takes is a simple click or drag-and-drop to the form canvas. From there, we can customize the field labels or settings in the Field Options in the left panel. So, by the end, you can have a form that may look something like this:
Once you've finished customizing the form, click the Save button to save the progress and give the questionnaire a name.
Step 3: Add conditional logic (optional)
Sometimes, you don't need to show all fields to every person taking the form.
Maybe someone used a specific product, so some fields on the form don't apply to them. So, that's where conditional logic comes in to show or hide the field.
With Formidable Forms, it's easy to add. In the form builder, choose the Field Options button, then scroll down to the Conditional Logic section.
Here, you can set up how the conditional logic should act. For example, if a user is answering questions about an industry like tech, they probably don't need to see any options for an industry like agriculture.
So if the Dropdown equals Tech, then you could hide the field.
This feature doesn't apply to all question types, but it is useful for reducing questionnaire size and bounce rates.
Step 4: Publish the questionnaire
Now it's time to publish the questionnaire so people can take it.
So, go to the post or page where you want to show the questionnaire and add a new WordPress block. Then, find the Formidable Forms block and add it.
Next, choose the questionnaire form from the dropdown menu, which automatically displays on the page.
Last, update or publish the page; the questionnaire will be live!
Step 4: Display results in a graph or chart (optional)
Once you start getting questionnaire or survey results, Formidable's graphs and charts are an excellent way to compile and display the information in an easy-to-view questionnaire or survey report.
To create a chart, go to Formidable → Add-Ons and find the Charts add-on.
Once that's installed, go to a post or page where you want to show a graph or chart. Then, add a WordPress block and add the Formidable Chart block.
Next, you can customize the chart, including choosing the form to get data from, the chart type, and more. You can choose from bar, line, pie, and more charts depending on your needs.
Feel free to choose whatever chart suits your needs and fits the data you want to show. Then, customize the settings and update the page to show the chart data in real time.
Once you do, you'll have a chart that looks something like any of these:
Ready to create an online questionnaire in WordPress?
As you can see, creating a questionnaire in WordPress is easy. And it makes a big difference in how you connect with your audience.
We hope this post helped you get a questionnaire on your website. And, if you have any questions or comments, be sure to leave them below!
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