Automattic Acquires Poll Daddy – Integrated Polls & Surveys for WordPress

Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, announced on his blog that Automattic has just acquired the company Poll Daddy, to shore up a lack of integrated polling functionality on the popular Open Source blogging platform. According to Mullenweg, polling has become very popular with WordPress users, and there are over a dozen different companies developing polling plugins for the CMS. Yet, when looking at the top sites, the “Poll Daddy” functionality was most favored. Upon investigation, it turns out the company was run by two programmers in Ireland – Mullenweg traveled there, had a few beers with the crew, and acquired the company for Automattic.

Looking at the functionality of “Poll Daddy,” the main advantages are in its flexibility and ability to be customized. There are a number of skins available for the plugin, and developers can modify the display easily through CSS. HTML customizations can be used to add image, video, and multimedia files. Poll Daddy adds realtime data reporting from polls and surveys to a WordPress site, and the data can be exported through XML, RSS, or CSV. In setting up questions, there are over ten different formats to select from, which can be further configured in the control panel.

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