Make Your WP Website More Interactive with These Plugins

 How does content go viral over social media? Obviously, it is interesting, but many a times, this interest is generative because of a quiz or some other interactive media. A recent study showed that viral elements such as quizzes which highlight something about your visitors are among the most shared content on social media. 

 

How do you incorporate all of these interactive elements into your WordPress website? Discuss with your WordPress developer in Sydney, and they’d install relevant plug-ins. 

 

We’ll take you through some of these interactive elements, and also suggest plugins that can help you add them to your website.

Quizzes and Polls

Like we have said, quizzes and polls are some of the most interactive elements, and are already being used by popular blogging websites such as BuzzFeed. WordPress has a number of plugins such as Dilemma, Riddle and SurveyFunnel, through which you can create quizzes. You can also set up personality tests or create polls, which can be embedded to your website.

Think it’s too much of a trouble to create quizzes from scratch? Then just integrate the already created interactive content from PlayBuzz website, using the PlayBuzz plugin, which lets you access a search panel to search content on PlayBuzz.

User Generated Content

Visitors like seeing their own content on different websites. So, let them contribute to yours by creating a curated blog post via a plugin such as Listly. Users can add their own points to the lists, and get featured on your website. The plugin can also enable voting, which may increase user engagement. 

 

Other plugins which allow users to add content to your website are Q&A from WPMU DEV and WP Answers. Both of these are similar to Yahoo Answers and Quora.

Content Feedback and Rating  

If you want your visitors to rate content, you can use plugins like MyEffecto and Voting - Feedbacks plugin by Vicomi to get immediate responses from your visitors. 

 

Gamification

Gamification is a term used for adding elements such as rewards, points and leaderboards to a website. Through this, you can reward and allot points to visitors for any action that they take on your website such as sharing content, posting a review or leaving a comment; the points will vary with the action. TripAdvisor uses gamification, and encourages users to add reviews. If they contribute, they are awarded points which can be used as flier miles. 

 

The Achievements for WordPress plugin adds badges, challenges and points to your website. Captain Up is another similar plugin. So, reward your visitors in any way possible, and they’ll start spending more time on your website.

Chat

Add a chat window or space to your website through the Private Messages for UserPro plugin. However, for this to work, the UserPro plugin will also have to be installed. Your visitors will then be able to private message other views, and get notifications for messages that they receive.

So, ask WordPress developers in Sydney to install any of the above plugins, which you can then use to engage visitors and entice them into sharing your content.