Quizzes are the best way to grab the attention of millions of users. Everyone loves a quiz because of their interactive feature. Most of the top notch websites like Buzzfeed, Mashable and Buffer.com etc added a quiz section on their websites because quizzes are very eye catching and attractive and everyone finds it interesting to play a quiz. So we can say that quizzes can play a vital role in user engagement and help your audience to explore your site content.
In this article, we are going to create different types of viral quizzes with WP Quiz Plugin. So before going to start a quiz just have a look on the pre-requirements.
- You need a WordPress installed on a hosting account with your domain name. Here’s my guide to setting up WordPress step by step on a hosting account if you don’t have it already.
We highly recommend that you use BlueHost because it is also officially recommended hosting provider of WordPress. You can also check other hosting providers here. - After the installing WordPress, you need a beautiful WordPress theme( Free or premium ) that totally depends on your choice.
We recommend WordPress themes from Mythemeshop. - The third and the last requirement is WP Quiz Plugin. You can download it from here.
Let’s Start with WP Quiz Plugin
WP Quiz is one of the best Quiz plugin for creating an amazing quiz for your WordPress site. WP Quiz Plugin is a complete solution for those who want to create different types of interesting quizzes.
WP Quiz is a free plugin and very easy to use plugin So let’s start with WP Quiz Plugin.
After the successful installation of this plugin WP Quiz plugin you can create different types of quizzes like Trivia, Personality, and Flip card Quizzes. We will discuss all one by one.
How to Create a Trivia Quiz
Trivia quizzes are a series of questions which is very helpful to check the user’s interest or keep them engaging. Ask some interesting questions and make them curious so they willingly share the quiz result with their friends and colleagues through their social media platforms.
- To create a new Quiz just Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and go to WP Quiz menu and click on Add new
- Add an attractive quiz title and select the quiz type “Trivia” from the drop down menu.
- Now go to Content tab and click on Add Question.
- Now add a Question and its multiple answers. You can set correctness of the answer by choosing yes or no in “Is Correct Answer” field.
- Save the changes. Following the previous steps, you can create multiple questions.
- Now it’s the time to add quiz results.
- After publishing the post you will get a shortcode. Put this shortcode in a page to show the quiz.
Video Tutorial for creating a Trivia Quiz
How to Create a Flip Card Quiz
Flip Card Quiz are just like flash cards. The question appears on the front side and the answer is on the back side.
In Flip Card Quizzes, for the given question, the user has to guess the correct answer in their mind. After becoming sure, they can click on the image which then Flips and shows the right answer.
Flip Card Quizzes do not generate any result but they are very interesting.
- To create a Flip card Quiz just Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and go to WP Quiz menu and click on Add new
- Add an attractive Quiz Title and select the quiz type “Flip Cards” from the drop down menu.
- Now go to Content tab and click on Add Question. Here you will find the options for image uploading.
- Save the changes and publish the post. You will get a shortcode. Put this shortcode in a page to show the quiz.
Video Tutorial for creating a Flip Card Quiz
How to Create a Personality Quiz
Personality Quiz is a quiz with multiple questions. Each question has multiple answers. Depending on the answer given by the user, you can assign points to your results. The result will be calculated by analyzing the answers attempted by the user.
With WP Quiz Plugin, you can create an amazing Personality Quiz.
The Personality quiz has a good probability of getting more social shares. So let’s start making a Personality Quiz.
- To create a Flip card Quiz just Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and go to WP Quiz menu and click on Add new
- Add an attractive Quiz Title and select the quiz type “Personality” from the drop down menu.
- Now go to Content tab, Here we will add all the results first and then questions beacause it’s a personality quiz. We would recommend you add at least two results for your quiz. You can also add an image with quiz result for better user experience.
- After adding the results please save the draft before adding questions.
- Now start to add Questions.
Along with the question, you have to add the relevant answer. The results will be decided by analyzing the points you have assigned for that particular answer.
You can add as many questions as you wish by following the above steps. - Save the changes and publish the post. You will get a shortcode. Put this shortcode in a page to show the quiz.
Video Tutorial for creating a Personality Quiz
All three types of Quizzes are very effective for increasing user engagement and getting a high-level social traffic on your website.
I hope this article will help you to create a stunning quiz for your website. If you have any question or difficulties please feel free to ask. We are here to help you.
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