{"id":67,"date":"2007-02-09T03:28:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/09\/total-voters-and-total-votes\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T03:29:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T19:29:27","slug":"total-voters-and-total-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/09\/total-voters-and-total-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Voters And Total Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have reviewed how Invision Board and vBulletin implemented their multiple answers poll and I have decided to use it on WP-Polls. As of now, there will be a new term called <strong>Total Voters<\/strong>. This term will contain the number of voters who voted for the poll. <\/p>\n<p>If you are using a poll which allow single answer only, your <strong>Total Voters<\/strong> = <strong>Total Votes<\/strong> because 1 user can only choose 1 vote. <\/p>\n<p>But if you have a poll which allows multiple answers to be selected, <strong>Total Voters<\/strong> will mean the total number of uses that voted for your poll and <strong>Total Votes<\/strong> will mean the total number of votes that has been casted on your poll.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if a user selected 3 answers for the poll, the <strong>Total Voters<\/strong> will only be incremented by 1, but on the other hand, the <strong>Total Votes<\/strong> will be incremented by 3 because that user selected 3 answers.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone of you need clearer explanation, just post it in the comments. Just give me 1 more week before I release WP-Polls 2.20 beta for testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have reviewed how Invision Board and vBulletin implemented their multiple answers poll and I have decided to use it on WP-Polls. As of now, there will be a new term called Total Voters. This term will contain the number of voters who voted for the poll. If you are using a poll which allow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/09\/total-voters-and-total-votes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Total Voters And Total Votes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wp-polls"],"views":17573,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesterchan.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}