Looking for the best WordPress questionnaire plugin? This simple plugin lets you gather feedback and improve your website today!
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A questionnaire is the quickest way to determine what site visitors think.
And with that information, you can optimize your WordPress website to get even more visitors. But you’ll need a questionnaire plugin for WordPress first.
And we’ve got the best WordPress questionnaire plugin for you — Formidable Forms. With one plugin, you’ll create a questionnaire that connects with your visitors and helps you get all the data you need.
Here’s the best part: you can use the free version of our form plugin to create questionnaires!
So, let’s not waste any time or money and move right along to the good stuff!
Questionnaire vs. survey: what's the difference?
Before closely examining our WordPress questionnaire plugin, let’s answer a common question.
Is there a difference between a survey and a questionnaire?
Yes, there is a difference!
Surveys collect specific or broad data about people, products, or services.
They gather data from multiple choice, star ratings, or short responses. Then, we analyze the survey results to make decisions.
On the other hand, a questionnaire is a shorter set of questions to get specific information or opinions about a topic. And we mainly use questionnaires to gather data.
So, while they’re very similar, a few key differences set them apart.
And although Formidable Forms is also one of the best WordPress survey plugins, we’ll focus on its skills as a questionnaire maker today.
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More than your average WordPress questionnaire plugin
So, what makes Formidable Forms the best questionnaire plugin for WordPress?
Not only can it make any type of form you need including contact forms, quizzes, and even popup modal survey forms, but it does it all right from your WordPress dashboard.
It also comes with the advanced question types you need to create surveys like a pro. From Likert scale questions to radio buttons, Formidable has all the form fields you could want.
But to get the most data collected from your questionnaires, you need people to fill it out! And that means your forms needs to look good and make it quick and painless for visitors to answer.
With Formidable’s visual form builder, your questionnaire can match your website’s style.
Formidable even has several questionnaire templates to save you time so you can get to the more important tasks for your website!
So, now that we’ve given you a broad overview.
Let’s look at some of the main features that make our WordPress poll plugin a great choice.
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Show a progress bar or root line
What’s worse than questionnaires that seem to go on forever?
One of our friends once started an online questionnaire for their bank and gave up on page sixteen! There may have only been seventeen pages, but they couldn't tell without a progress bar.
Increasing form response rates is simple.
Let your users know the end is in sight, and your response rate will improve even on lengthy forms.
Display only the questions you need
The shorter your questionnaire, the more responses you will get.
People won’t go out of their way to fill out a form that’s 50 questions long on one page. But it's a different story if you use clever options to prevent it from being (or at least seeming) too long.
And that’s where a multi-step form comes in.
A multi-step form breaks up a questionnaire into multiple steps or pages so visitors are only asked a few questions at a time. And that means they’ll feel less overwhelmed by your form.
You can also add conditional logic.
For example, imagine you're asking about a recent hotel stay.
You may want to ask different questions depending on the type of travel they came for.
So, you ask if the stay is for business, a couple's vacation, or a family getaway. Then, you can set the questions to appear only if they select one of the answers.
This makes your questionnaires more focused and keeps the visitor engaged.
Display questionnaire data visually
Questionnaires are all about collecting valuable data.
But what you do with the results is also important. Displaying survey responses in an easy-to-read and eye-catching way is can make a huge impact. And fortunately, Formidable's Chart Block makes it simple to do!
You can customize survey reports as much as you like without needing any shortcode. Creating attention-grabbing graphs only takes a few clicks.
Create whatever type of chart you like — choose from a line graph, bar graph, pie chart, scatter plot, and more —then display your questionnaire results in real-time.
Change up the colors to make your graphs stand out. Or you can match it to your WordPress theme to create a uniform look.
With Formidable, you can display the results of a questionnaire anywhere you want. Show customers, create reports, or add custom graphics to member profiles.
The possibilities are endless.
Ready to create your own questionnaire on WordPress?
So, you came to this article wondering which is the best WordPress questionnaire plugin.
And the answer is clear! It’s the user-friendly Formidable Forms!
Simple form maker, WordPress survey plugin, free online questionnaire creator — it’s like the James Bond of plugins. So, if you’re ready to start, learn how to create a questionnaire in WordPress now!
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Can I get the member to save a questionnaire and come back to it multiple times before submitting?
Hi Gary,
Yes, logged-in members can save drafts and return to the questionnaire at a later date, or even multiple times before they finally submit.
I am trying to do a questionnaire with a log in feature that will allow them to save and continue later without losing data entered. Also don’t want there to be a link to return but the ability for them to log in and finish using their username and password. Will your plug in do this?
Yes! For sure. Logged in users can save drafts and come back later and it will be there waiting.
Hi,
Can it be used for designing clinical questionnaires for an online pharmacy? For instance, the customer picks the medicine for purchase, then by clicking an action button (Start Consultation) they get forwarded to a page containing a form where they are presented with a set of question, the answers which help the pharmacist to approve the supply request. Once they satisfactorily complete the form, the item will get added to the cart.
UK Meds website has a good example of this.
Many thanks,
Hi Babak,
Yes, this is absolutely possible. All you would need is a WordPress site and Formidable Forms (the least expensive paid plan would be enough).
You would set up a site with a front page with some text and a button that would take them to the form. On the form itself, you could automatically send the info the the pharmacist email address and the customer email address if desired.
There are a lot of ways to improve the setup, based on your exact needs. There’s no “online pharmacy” template, but this shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. Once you become a paid customer, you’ll have access to our support team. They will be able to give you all the guidance you need to finish the set up.
Hope that helps!
Hi there,
Would users be able to complete the same questionaire multiple times and see a list of their results when logged in?
Could completed/submitted questionaires be editable by the user?
Are they able to delete entries?
Is a PDF of the results able to be created?
Thanks
Jen
Hi Jen,
Yes on all counts.
For PDF integration, we recommend you look into the 3rd party E2PDF plugin.
I never really thought about the differences between quiz, questionnaire, and survey... but I suppose we've built all 3 in Formidable! Another I'd add to the list is a voting system. We've built some real-time event voting sites for people to "grade" a speaker/session and then a scoreboard to tally the results in real-time. Fun stuff!
Hi,
Can you insert video into the questions?
You can insert HTML into the field labels and we also have HTML fields, so this should be possible.
I want to ask 15 questions, each with 5 answers. Each of the 75 answers has a different score when selected to give a total at the end. Is this possible with this plug-in?
Also, would I be able to grant permission for a user to view the average results of a group of results, such as those of 10 people.
Would this plug-in allow users to complete the questions monthly and see a history of results?
Hi Adrian,
Yes, you should be able to do this with Formidable Forms. Depending on the details of your setup and use case, you may need an additional permissions plugin like MemberPress or members to manage who can see what, but generating the average should be possible.
That's pretty interesting. Is it possible, to use this plugin as kund of a service configurator? Approaching a matching product, by asking questions dynamically depending on the answers? And finally propose a solution.
Yes this is possible...We have one customer who used formidable forms to collect a wide range of information from a customer, then offer a specific recommendation based on the information. In this case it was specialty vitamins. As long as you can map out what results to show based on the info provided, it should be possible.
Hello, I have 5 questions.
I am developing a questionnaire and wondering if your tool is suitable to be integrated in our website.
Does it have 5. Likert Scales?
How does the answer sheet look like, when the participant clicked on „totally agree“? Is it possible to program a number such as „5“ out of this letters?
Is it possible to program reverse coded questions into the questionnaire?
How can we be notified, when someone submitted their answer in the questionnaire?
Is it possible sum up question answers?
It is also possible to show the participant the visual results of their questionnaire?
Thank you and I am very much looking forward to your answer.
Hi There, Thanks for your questions. I'm not totally sure I understand what you mean by reverse coded questions, but everything else can be done using Formidable Forms. If you'd like more information or details, I would recommend reaching out to our support team as they'll be able to provide much more detail than I can here on our blog.
Thanks!
Hi,
Is it possible to send a custom file to the user (Word, pdf or similar) based on the answers they give?
Not a file with the answers themselves, but for example:
Answer: a, b, c sends file1.pdf to the user
Answer: b, c, a sends file2.pdf to the user
And so on with many different files
Hi there,
Yes there are a couple ways to accomplish this using Formidable Forms. If you are already using the plugin, please reach out to our support team and they can help you with the best method for your use case.
Is it possible to create an interview questionnaire with random questions to each logged in user? Also is it possible to select which questions to show to selected user manually?
Anyone here care to answer please?
You can randomize questions, but you can’t show only a random subset of questions, so I don’t think this would be a good tool for you.
hi,
im looking for a solution, kind of form. the form will ask a question. If user gives the good answer, the form will answer that he's right or wrong.
Do u have this kind of solution ?
Thx
Yes, you can display the correct and incorrect answers when the user submits the form. Here is our documentation on quizzes: https://formidableformscom.bigscoots-staging.com/knowledgebase/quiz-maker-forms/