Was This Helpful? – Article Feedback vs Survey Maker by AYS

Was This Helpful? is a simple, effective WordPress feedback plugin that adds a “Was this helpful?” box at the bottom of your content to capture article feedback from your visitors. Let your readers give quick feedback with a thumbs up or thumbs down — no comments or forms needed. Designed for speed and simplicity, it helps you identify your most engaging posts and optimize underperforming ones. Unlike traditional comment forms, this feedback tool provides a frictionless way for users to respond with a single click — helping you understand content performance and engagement at a glance. Ideal for blogs, documentation, knowledge bases, and business websites. The Problem It Solves Many website owners and bloggers face the same challenges: Low comment engagement: Readers rarely leave comments, making it hard to know what content works. Unclear content performance: Analytics show visits, but not whether the article helped readers. Missed opportunities to improve content: Without feedback, you don’t know which posts need updates or rewrites. Was This Helpful is an article feedback plugin that solves these problems by providing quick feedback directly on your articles. A simple thumbs up/down helps you see: Which posts your audience finds useful. Which pages need updates or improvements. How user satisfaction changes over time. Key Benefits Collect instant feedback: learn what readers think without requiring them to leave a comment. Improve content strategy: identify helpful vs. unhelpful posts to guide updates and new content. Track content performance after updates: use the reset feedback feature to see how your posts perform after you make changes or optimizations, without losing historical data. Boost engagement: give users a one-click way to interact with your articles. Enhance SEO indirectly: updating low-rated content can improve dwell time and reduce bounce rates. Common Use Cases Blog posts: measure reader satisfaction and identify which articles resonate. Knowledge bases / documentation: quickly see if tutorials and how-to guides are effective. Product or service pages: understand if descriptions and details answer customer questions. Course or learning websites: track which lessons are clear or need more explanation. Business websites: gather visitor insights without long forms or surveys. Core Features Adds a “Was this helpful?” thumbs up/down box after posts and pages. Supports pages, posts, or both. Optionally disable the box on specific posts or pages. See percentage of positive feedback directly in the admin post list. Clean, minimal UI that adapts to your theme. Lightweight with optional CSS/JS loading. Includes a shortcode and a Gutenberg block to manually place the box wherever you like. “Manual Placement Only” setting to turn off automatic insertion for a whole post type while still allowing manual placement via shortcode, block, or per-post override. Reset feedback statistics per post or page without deleting historical feedback. Pro Version Unlock additional features with Was This Helpful? PRO: Support for custom post types Follow-up Reasons – When visitors vote No, optionally ask them why. Learn more: Pro Settings Show On Post Types: Choose which post types (posts, pages) the feedback box should appear on. Disable On Specific Posts: Option to disable the feedback box on individual posts or pages. PRO Version Settings: Show On Custom Post Types: Choose which custom post types the feedback box should appear on. License This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

WordPress Survey plugin Survey Maker by AYS is a WordPress plug-in for creating surveys, questionnaires, and survey forms on your website. The plugin enables you to create your survey through the built-in survey builder with various question types and publishing through a shortcode. It includes features like multi-page forms, conditional logic, survey analytics, and popup surveys, so you can collect feedback, gather insights, and analyze results without external survey tools. Survey Maker Pricing Survey Maker Free Demo Survey Maker Pro Demo Survey Maker Documentation Create a survey in 3 simple steps: Create a survey within minutes with the help of our survey builder. There is no need to know anything about coding; you can simply integrate the survey on your website with just a few clicks. Add questions / sections Customize settings / design Add shortcode to any post or page Survey shortcode [ays_survey id=’your survey id’] Survey Builder Features You can create surveys of any size with unlimited questions, sections, and surveys. This means that you will be able to split your survey into multiple pages by simply dragging and dropping questions to different pages. So you can easily arrange questions and sections without any technical knowledge. You will be able to make the questions required, redirect visitors after form submission, and restrict survey submissions based on IP addresses, user roles, and the number of submissions. Free Features Survey Creation & Design Unlimited Surveys Unlimited Sections Unlimited Questions 14 question types Question Image Responsive design Survey style options (20+) Sections with different count of questions Survey Behavior & Control Randomize questions Randomize answers Result message Redirect after submit Popup Survey Restriction by IP and User id Only for logged in users Responses & Results Individual submission Submissions summary Pro Features Advanced Surveys & Logic All advanced question types (NPS, Matrix, Ranking, Slider, etc.) Logic jump Conditional Results Conditional Mailing URL parameters Calculation Conversational surveys Multilingual Forms Text To Speech ChatGPT Integration Integrations & Automation Email notifications & configuration Mailchimp, Slack, Zapier, Google Sheets, etc. WooCommerce integration Payment integrations (Stripe, PayPal) Analytics, Control & Export Results with charts Export (CSV, PDF, etc.) Submission exports Schedule survey Limit attempts User roles & permissions Password protection User history Didn’t find the feature you’re looking for in the Survey Maker plugin? You’re welcome to suggest a new feature. Survey Demos (Free) Demographic Survey Software Development Request Form Relationship Questionnaire Survey Demos (Pro) Conditional Logic Survey (Skip Logic Form) Survey with Personalized Results Conversational Survey Form (Chat Style Survey) Survey with Multiple Question Types Net Promoter Score(NPS) Survey Simple Contact Form Template Popup Survey Social Media Survey Template (Modern theme) Health Questionnaire (Elegant theme) Demographic Survey (Business theme) Password-Protected Form Design & Customization There are more than 30 options for customizing the look of your survey to fit the theme of your website. The plugin has a number of built-in templates, and you have options to modify the colors, fonts, buttons, and other layout choices to ensure that the survey fits in with your website theme. You can also control how questions and answers are displayed, which helps improve readability and makes the survey easier to complete. 20+ TYPES OF SURVEY QUESTIONS The Survey Maker offers the most famous question types for creating successful questionnaires: Radio Checkbox Dropdown Paragraph Short Text Number Yes or No Date (Pro) Time (Pro) Date and Time (Pro) Star Rating (Pro) Ranking (Pro) Linear Scale (Pro) Matrix Scale (Pro) Matrix Scale Checkbox (Pro) Slider (Pro) File Upload (Pro) Star List (Pro) Slider List (Pro) Hidden (Pro) HTML (Pro) Phone (Pro) Net Promoter Score (Pro) Name field Email field and many more are coming! Survey with different question types – Demo Survey Results & Analytics You can view all survey submissions directly from your WordPress dashboard. The survey plugin gives you survey results along with their stats and charts so that you don’t have to analyze the surveys by looking at each and every response. All data is stored in one place (in your database). The Pro version of the WordPress Survey plugin allows exporting of results so that you can utilize the data outside your website as well. Conditional Logic (Pro) You can have your surveys become much more flexible when using the features of Logic Jump and Conditional Results. Logic Jump allows you to dictate the following question based on the respondents’ answers; this way, you can avoid unnecessary questions from popping up in your survey. Conditional Results enable you to specify different results pages, email recipients, and redirects based on AND/OR conditions, giving you the ability to customize the results for each respondent. The plugin also includes a Calculation feature, which allows you to create formulas based on user answers and display calculated results such as scores or estimated values. Examples: Price / quote calculator Score-based surveys Result calculation forms Simple cost estimation Service pricing survey PRO | DEMO | DOCUMENTATION Popup Survey You can display your survey as a popup survey to increase visibility and collect more responses. The popup can be triggered on page load, on click, or on exit intent, determining when the user will get to see the popup. You will have the ability to show the popup only once upon its response, as well as go for full-screen mode. Anonymous Survey Create an anonymous survey and allow users to submit responses without sharing personal information. This ensures that more accurate feedback especially for customer feedback, employee feedback, and internal surveys. NPS Surveys (Pro) Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys for evaluating customer satisfaction and loyalty. These kinds of surveys are used to see how likely your product or service will be recommended by your clients. Based on the responses, users are grouped into promoters, passives, and detractors, giving you a clear overview of your customer satisfaction. Email Notifications & Integrations (Pro) Set up email notifications to send survey responses to both the user and the admin. The email content can be customized, and you can include response data in a table format. Also, the administrator can create email summaries with results of surveys sent after predefined time intervals. In addition, Survey Maker integrates with popular tools such as Mailchimp, Zapier, Google Sheets, Stripe, and PayPal, making it easier to manage data and connect your survey with other services. Easy-To-Use | User-Friendly | Not a tech person? No problem. The plugin is 100% beginner-friendly and no coding skills are required. You can easily create engaging and at the same time advanced forms that will fulfill all your needs. Also, this WordPress survey plugin is mobile-friendly, so your responders can take the quiz with all types of screens such as mobile devices or tablets. And, most importantly, our support care specialists are easily accessible and always happy to help you and answer any questions you might have! For more detailed information please check the Documentation. Don’t forget, in case of any problems or upcoming questions feel free to contact us via the following FREE SUPPORT FORUM.