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How to Easily Create a Quiz in WordPress

Last updated on February 27th, 2019 by Editorial Staff
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How to Easily Create a Quiz in WordPress

Quizzes are a fun way to increase user engagement on your site. You can use them for educational purposes or use them to create viral content like BuzzFeed and others to get more social shares.

Quizzes are basically online forms that collect user input, calculate responses, and show results.

In this article, we will show you how to easily create a quiz in WordPress.

How to Create a Quiz in WordPress Easily

Why Add Quizzes to Your WordPress Site?

Quizzes are fun and highly engaging. Due to their interactive nature, users find them more rewarding than other types of forms.

BuzzFeed Quizzes

Marketers have been using quizzes to generate leads since the very early days of the internet.

There are many scenarios where quizzes can help you capture audience interest, gather data, and add interactive features to your site.

  • Viral quizzes can help you gain more traffic from social media. BuzzFeed is probably the most popular example of viral quizzes
  • Educational quizzes to accompany your online courses
  • Quizzes to asses customer needs and recommend them solutions.
  • Quizzes that require users to sign up for your email newsletter
  • and more…

Quiz to assess customer needs

Having said that let’s go ahead and see how to create easily create a quiz in WordPress.

Creating a WordPress Quiz with Formidable Forms

As the saying goes, there’s likely a plugin for that. You can find many WordPress plugins for making a quiz, but it’s always your responsibility to choose the best one.

For creating this tutorial, we tried out the best WordPress quiz plugins available and picked Formidable Forms plugin as the best WordPress-focused solution.

Formidable Forms Advanced WordPress form plugin

Formidable Forms is the most advanced WordPress form plugin available on the market. It comes with a simple but powerful drag and drop form builder which helps you go beyond just contact forms.

Using its powerful interface, you can easily create advanced forms like quizzes, surveys, calculators, registration forms, and more.

Formidable Forms plugin comes with a Quiz Maker add-on for creating quizzes in WordPress. It allows you to easily build quizzes and display them on your website.

Let’s take a look at how to do that, step by step.

Step 1: Install the Formidable Forms and Quiz Maker Addon

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Formidable Forms plugin. For creating a quiz, you will need to purchase at least their ‘Business’ plan which includes the Quiz Maker addon.

For detailed instructions, check out our step by step guide on how to install a plugin in WordPress.

Next, you will need to install the Quiz Maker addon. Go to Formidable » Add-Ons, navigate to Quiz Maker addon and click the Install button.

Install Formidable Forms Quiz Maker

It will install the addon in a few seconds and show the addon as ‘Active.’

That’s it!

Now, you are all set to start building a quiz using Formidable Forms.

Step 2: Create a WordPress Quiz with Formidable Quiz Maker

Now that you’ve installed the Formidable Forms Quiz Maker, you are ready to create your first WordPress quiz.

Navigate to Formidable » Forms from your WordPress dashboard and click the ‘Add New’ button.

Add New Formidable Form in WordPress

Next, you will see different ways to create a form with Formidable Forms. You can either start with a blank form, use a form template, or import from an XML file. In our guide, we will show you how to start with a blank form.

Create with a Black Form - Formidable Forms

Start by clicking on the ‘Create with a blank form’ button. Next, you will see the plugin’s form building interface.

Formidable Forms Form Builder Interface

As shown in the screenshot above, you will see the main 3 steps to create a form. First, name your quiz. Second, add fields to your form. And third, save your form.

Quizzes can be used for different purposes including satisfaction test, personality quiz, market research, knowledge test, etc.

You may need different types of fields based on your quiz type. We recommend having a list of your questions and answers ready before creating the quiz.

In this guide, we will show you how to create a simple WordPress knowledge test quiz which includes different fields including single response ‘Text’ field as well as multi-response ‘Dropdown’ and ‘Radio Buttons.’

Let’s get started with the name of your quiz form. Then, you can add fields to your form by simply clicking or dragging the fields on the right.

Name Your Formidable Forms Quiz

Here, we added a ‘Text’ field for the first quiz question and replaced the field title with the question.

Create a Quiz Question in Formidable Forms

Next, we added a ‘Dropdown’ Field for a multi-response question.

Add Dropdown Field in Formidable Forms

Replace the field title with your question first. Then, add options for your question.

Add Dropdown Options in a Formidable Form

Similarly, you can add more questions to your form. Once done, add the ‘Quiz Score’ field to your form.

Add Quiz Score Field in Formidable Form

The Quiz score field is important because it’s where you can enter the correct answers for your quiz questions. Simply right-click the ‘Add an entry’ link to open in a new tab.

Doing so will open the ‘Entries’ page in a new tab.

Formidable Forms Entry Page

Now, you can enter or choose correct answers for your quiz questions. The plugin will later evaluate the users’ entries based on your entries here.

Once done, put a check on the box next to ‘Set this entry as the quiz answer key.’ After that enter a descriptive name in the ‘Entry Key’ field and click the ‘Submit’ button.

Set Correct Answers for Your Formidable WordPress Quiz

Once your entries are saved, you can close the tab and go back to the form making page.

Next, you need to click the ‘Create’ button.

Create a Quiz in WordPress using Formidable Forms

Upon clicking the Create button, it will open the form General Settings. On this page, you can set up settings for your form including what to display when a user completes your form.

Quiz Settings Formidable Forms

You can review all the settings and then change them or simply leave them as default.

Then, scroll down to the Messages section to customize the message users will get when they complete your quiz.

Message Settings for Formidable Forms Quiz

If you want to show the quiz score immediately to your users along with this message, you can add a shortcode including your Quiz Score field key or field ID.

You can find your Quiz Score field ID or the key under the ‘Fields’ panel on the right.

Quiz Score ID Formidable Forms

As you can see on the screenshot, the Quiz Score field ID in this example is [161]. Now, you can add a shortcode to the message box including this ID or key in the following format:

[161] – For fraction correct. Example: 5/10.
[161 show=count] – For correct answer count. Example: 5.
[161 show=percent] – For percent count. Example: 50%
[161 show=grade] – For letter grade. Example: F.

Here’s how you can add the shortcode to the message box.

Add Shortcode to Display Quiz Score in WordPress

Once you are done, click the ‘Update’ button at the end. That’s all. You’ve created your first quiz.

Step 3: Adding Your Quiz to Your WordPress Site

Now that you have successfully created a quiz form, you are all set to display it on your site. You can add the quiz to your site easily using the Formidable Forms widget.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to add that on a page.

Go to Pages » Add New from your dashboard.

Add New Page in WordPress

First, you will need to add a title and then click the ‘Add Block’ icon to add the Formidable Forms widget. Under the Widgets tab, you need to click the ‘Formidable Forms’ widget.

Add Formidable Forms Widget

After that it will add the Formidable Forms block to your page area. Simply click the dropdown in the block and select your quiz form.

Choose Your Quiz Form Widget in WordPress

Your quiz will now load on your page.

Publish Your Quiz in WordPress

Now you can go ahead and publish your page.

That’s it! Your WordPress quiz is live and your users can start answering questions.

Here’s how users will see the quiz results after clicking the submit quiz button.

Quiz Score Displayed in WordPress

We hope this article helped you add a quiz to your WordPress site. You may also want to see our guide on how to add a client feedback form in WordPress.

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16 Comments

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  1. Rhys Morgan says:
    Mar 25, 2021 at 2:02 pm

    Is it better to give each quiz a page or do them in a post format ? |s there any seo benefit for example?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 26, 2021 at 9:20 am

      There is no SEO difference with either method, you may want to use posts so you can use categories to group them but it is not required.

      Reply
  2. Gabriella says:
    Jun 7, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    Hi! Nice article. Thanks. Could you post some example/sample sites/blogs using quizzes, please? Stay safe

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jun 8, 2020 at 3:57 pm

      We will be sure to take your suggestion into consideration when we next update this article :)

      Reply
  3. suresh says:
    Aug 19, 2019 at 5:40 am

    can i create maths quiz too?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 19, 2019 at 11:19 am

      You certainly could use this to create a math quiz

      Reply
  4. Kunj Bihari says:
    Feb 28, 2019 at 7:24 am

    Nice article

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 28, 2019 at 10:05 am

      Thank you :)

      Reply
  5. Muhammad Muzammal says:
    Feb 28, 2019 at 1:20 am

    This Article is amazing & Thanks!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 28, 2019 at 10:56 am

      Thank you and you’re welcome :)

      Reply
  6. Wiggles says:
    Dec 6, 2018 at 2:33 am

    Is there a way to span the quiz questions over several posts/pages? If not with these plugins then is anybody aware of a plugin which allows that?

    Reply
  7. Anindra says:
    Dec 5, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    Hi, how do I find who answered all questions correctly and first?

    Reply
  8. Pranoy Kumar Mahato says:
    Dec 3, 2017 at 9:04 am

    Do I post articles and quizzes in a single website.
    Or shall I use sub-domain for the quizzes. Which would be better for long term?

    Reply
  9. Martha says:
    Jun 7, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Can I create a quiz to be used as an opt in

    Reply
  10. Ghouse basha says:
    May 28, 2015 at 5:29 am

    Hello admin,thanks for the share.I have tried quiz master next in my genesis theme and don’t know why there is some grey border line appears below each and every option.DO it fits genesis theme?

    Reply
    • Rishikesh says:
      Apr 6, 2018 at 8:27 am

      If you know html CSS then you can easily change your code or that border line from the root dir

      Reply

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