How to Create a WordPress Quiz for Free

Want to create a WordPress quiz for your readers? Quizzes can help you do everything from catching some of BuzzFeeds viral magic to learning more about the demographics of your readers. So whether you use them for fun or business, theyre a powerful weapon in your WordPress arsenal.In this post, Im going to give you a detailed tutorial on how you can create a WordPress quiz using a free plugin called Quiz Cat. Put that all together and its the best tool Ive found to create a WordPress quiz for free.The only downside is that, in the free version, you cant create a true personality quiz. That is, you can only create a quiz where each question has just one correct answer. If you want to create more open quizzes, youll need the pro version. Or, you can always create a WordPress poll if you just need to ask a single open-ended question.Heres how to use Quiz Cat to create a WordPress quiz:Step 1: Install and activate Quiz Cat Quiz Cat WordPress Quiz Plugin Author(s): Fatcat AppsCurrent Version: 1.7.0Last Updated: April 30, 2019quiz-cat.1.7.0.zip 92%Ratings 60,092Downloads WP 4.0+Requires Quiz Cat is free and listed at the WordPress.org plugin directory. To get started, you can install the plugin directly from your WordPress dashboard:Make sure to activate it, then you can head to the new Quiz Cat link in your WordPress dashboard sidebar.Step 2: Connect to Quiz Cat APIWhen you click on the Quiz Cat link, youll see a prompt asking you to Connect Quiz Cat. This is necessary to get access to all of the functionality. To do that, just click the button:And thats all! Nothing else to do.Step 3: Create a WordPress quizNow that youre connected, head to Quiz Cat → Add New to create a new quiz.First, give your quiz a title and description. You can also add an image to the description if youd like:Step 4: Add your questions and answersNext up, scroll down the page a tiny bit to the Questions box. Here, youll add all of your questions and answers.First, enter the question text. You can also add an image as part of the question.Then, enter the Correct answer. If a user chooses this answer, they will get 1 point.After that, you can enter as many Wrong answers as youd like. To add a new wrong answer, just click the Add Answer button:Once youve finished your first question, you can repeat the process for as many questions as youd like your quiz to contain by hitting the +Add button:Step 5: Add your resultsOnce youve finished up your questions, you need to add the results your quiz-takers will see at the end of the quiz. As I mentioned, you can add different results based on how the person answered the quiz.Because each correct answer is worth 1 point, the default Results page will cover all possible results. So if you have a quiz with 4 questions, the default results page covers every score from 0-4 points.You can style it by adding a title, image, description, and even custom HTML if youd like:But what if you want to show one results page to pe ople who answered 3-4 questions correctly, and another to keep who only answered 0-2 questions correctly? No problem! Just click the +Add button to add as many different results pages as youd like. You can re-arrange them as needed by dragging and dropping.Each time you add a new results page, Quiz Cat will automatically adjust the number of points associated with each results page to divide things up equally:Step 6: Preview your quizOnce youve added all of the results pages that you want, you can preview your quiz by clicking on the Save Preview button at the bottom:Youll first see your quiz landing page. And if you want to see the quiz in action, you can take it yourself to make sure everything works:Once youre happy with how everything looks, youre ready to embed your quiz on your live site!Step 7: Embed your new WordPress quizTo display your quiz on the front-end, all you need to do is paste the shortcode wherever you want your quiz to appear. To find your shortcode, you can go to Quiz Cat → All Quizzes:Then, just paste that shortcode into the WordPress Editor in whichever post or page you want your quiz to display in. When you publish the post or page, your quiz should be live:What about creating a BuzzFeed style personality quiz?Unfortunately, if you want to create a true BuzzFeed style WordPress quiz, youll need to upgrade to the pro version of Quiz Cat for $29. Youll also get access to social sharing buttons to help your quiz go viral.But if you dont care about BuzzFeed personality quizzes, the free version should work for all of the other situations in which you need to create a WordPress quiz.Wrapping things up If you need any additional help, leave a comment and Ill do my best to assist.