My Favorite Wordpress Quiz Plugin: SlickQuiz
Quizzes are a great way to engage your audience and educate them on a topic without sharing a long list of pointers. I recently found myself with the need to create a simple online quiz. I started with Googling a “free quiz maker” and other similar phrases, only to find myself unhappy with the options. Most of what I found was geared towards the educational field or appeared to be “free” but not without slapping ugly ads on my quiz. I just needed a simple interactive quiz that allowed visitors to test their knowledge and immediately see if their responses were correct.
Google Docs provided quiz capabilities, but no way to easily show the answers in real-time as a visitor moved through the quiz. I didn’t need to store results or generate reports based on the responses. I’d forgotten for a moment that I was working within Wordpress! One of my favorite things about Wordpress is the vast pool of plugins offered to enhance your website or blog. Surely there were more than a few free quiz plugins available for Wordpress.
Enter the SlickQuiz Plugin in Wordpress. If you search the Wordpress plugin library, there are many quiz makers to choose from! I tested out four before settling into SlickQuiz. The others I tried were too complicated or not sleek enough. SlickQuiz fit the bill!
Here’s a screenshot of the basic fields you’ll need to fill in to create a quiz with SlickQuiz after you’ve downloaded and installed it on your Wordpress site.
Super simple!
Here's a quick example (from their plugin page) of what your quiz will look like:
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Google Docs provided quiz capabilities, but no way to easily show the answers in real-time as a visitor moved through the quiz. I didn’t need to store results or generate reports based on the responses. I’d forgotten for a moment that I was working within Wordpress! One of my favorite things about Wordpress is the vast pool of plugins offered to enhance your website or blog. Surely there were more than a few free quiz plugins available for Wordpress.
Enter the SlickQuiz Plugin in Wordpress. If you search the Wordpress plugin library, there are many quiz makers to choose from! I tested out four before settling into SlickQuiz. The others I tried were too complicated or not sleek enough. SlickQuiz fit the bill!
Here’s a screenshot of the basic fields you’ll need to fill in to create a quiz with SlickQuiz after you’ve downloaded and installed it on your Wordpress site.
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Here's a quick example (from their plugin page) of what your quiz will look like:
Other than what you see below, you just need to name your quiz and include a brief description. You can add several questions and publishing your quiz is easy. I like that you can “preview” your quiz as you go, and then publish when you’re happy with it all. Embedding your quiz in a blogpost couldn’t be easier…it’s a simple strip of code that looks like this (at the time of this post): [slickquiz id=1]. Of course, you will change the quiz id based on the number your quiz is assigned.
If you’re running a site on Wordpress, I hope you’ll give SlickQuiz a go! This is not a sponsored post; I’m just sharing my experience with you in case you find yourself in a similar situation.
If you’re running a site on Wordpress, I hope you’ll give SlickQuiz a go! This is not a sponsored post; I’m just sharing my experience with you in case you find yourself in a similar situation.
RSS. Laura can also be found on Twitter (@LauraCatherineO), Facebook, on her personal inspiration blog and on LinkedIn.
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