It’s feels like it’s election season everywhere, so it seems like a good time to announce that Readers Polls are now open as a beta feature in Outpost for Voyager and Luna+ member publishers.
Polls are fun, and they can also be illuminating. But without an integration, polls were either anonymous, or annoying to run. So we built our version of Reader Polls for Ghost, that work with your Ghost membership on both the web and in your newsletters.
Here's one in action:
We’re excited to see what Outpost member publishers do with these.
Here's a video on how to create and use a poll, how voting works, and how to see the results.
Some details:
The polls are built to be native to Ghost’s membership system, and any poll is currently open to be voted on by any free or paid member on your site.
So you can put a poll in a post, or in a newsletter, or in a post you send as a newsletter.
On the website, signed in readers can vote straight away; those logged out or not signed up, are prompted to do the right thing and sign in or become a member.
In a Ghost newsletter, the recipient can vote straight away, regardless of whether they are logged into your site or not.
You can also add the poll to multiple posts, using the HTML card.
This is still a beta and more to come, but there’s lots in it already.
- Polls can be anonymous or recorded votes.
- You can set open and close times.
- Polls can be one answer (What’s your favorite Muppet?) or multiple choices (Which Muppets would you invite to your Birthday party?)
- You can let readers change their votes.
- Poll results can be hidden til the poll is over, shown only after voting, or open to anyone to see.
- Styling is picked up from your default styles in Outpost
More to come soon!
Have fun and drop us a note if you have feedback, suggestions, etc...
