WB Polls

WB Polls lets a site owner ask a question and show live results on any EmDash page.

What you get

• Create a poll with two to ten answers, one choice or several.
• Open it when you are ready, close it when voting should stop, or set a close time.
• Choose who can vote: anyone, or signed-in members only.
• Choose when results show: always, after a vote, or after the poll closes.
• Choose anonymous totals, or named results the site owner can see.
• Attach a poll to one page, to every entry of a content type, or to the whole site. A developer can also place a specific poll by id.
• Copy a poll into a new draft with no votes.

How it fits together

The plugin is the engine: storage, voting routes and the admin screens. An EmDash plugin cannot add pages, so the visible poll ships as a site kit you copy in once. See Installation.

Guests can vote when you allow anyone. Members vote as their signed-in account. Only you create and manage polls.

Why is there no poll on the page after I create one? Create is a draft. Open the poll from the list. Then attach it to a page, a content type or the whole site, and put a poll slot on that template.

Can guests vote? Yes, when you set Who can vote to Anyone. One vote per visitor. Signed-in members still vote as themselves.

Who sees voter names? Only you, and only on a named poll. Guests stay anonymous. Anonymous polls never store a name.

Does it work in dark mode? Yes. The kit follows the visitor's system setting.

Can I put a poll in the middle of an article? Not from a registry install. Attach it above or below the content, or place <Poll id /> in a template. An in-text block needs a trusted install; that path is optional and does not change the registry product.

Is there a paid version? No. Everything here is free.

0.1.1

• Polls stay readable in dark mode on any site theme.
• A missing poll explains what to do next.
• Tapping anywhere on an answer selects it.

0.1.0

• New: create, edit, open, close and delete polls from admin.
• New: guests and signed-in members can vote once, with an optional change while the poll is open.
• New: attach a poll to one page, a content type or the whole site.
• New: anonymous or named results. The owner can erase one member's votes.
• New: copy a poll into a new draft with no votes.
• New: site kit poll and slot components, with one wording file for visitor text.

1. Install WB Polls from the registry. It asks for no extra permissions.
2. Copy the site kit into your site. On a lab, ./scripts/apply-kit.sh does this. By hand, copy site-kit/lib/, site-kit/styles/ and site-kit/components/ into your src/ folders of the same names.
3. Put <PollSlot collection={entry.collection} id={entry.id} /> once in the template that wraps posts and pages, above or below the content. Or put <Poll id="..." /> on one page.
4. Open Admin, then Polls. Create a poll, attach it, and open it.

Your site needs a sandbox runner in astro.config.mjs. Without one, EmDash skips sandboxed plugins at startup.

EmDash 1.2 or later.

Full steps: https://github.com/wbcomdesigns/emdash-polls/blob/main/site-kit/README.md