What Wordpress Plugins to use to make Interactive Posts?

[MrPotatoKing]

Now that my content engine is more or less in place, I'd like to transition to interactive tools (calculators, quizzes, etc.)

But before I decide on a specific path, I want to make sure that:
- It can be executed quickly (I'd like to have at least 5 tools up & running by end of next week)
- Scale with traffic (1000's of daily uses and tens/hundreds of concurrent users)
- Works with WordPress

Has anyone gone down this path before? What do you recommend?

Thanks!

 

[bernard]

Now that my content engine is more or less in place, I'd like to transition to interactive tools (calculators, quizzes, etc.)

But before I decide on a specific path, I want to make sure that:
- It can be executed quickly (I'd like to have at least 5 tools up & running by end of next week)
- Scale with traffic (1000's of daily uses and tens/hundreds of concurrent users)
- Works with WordPress

Has anyone gone down this path before? What do you recommend?

Thanks!

I bought Formiddable Forms, which I think does most of this, but I haven't gotten around to using it yet.

I did a page of specific fitness calculators with the free plugin Calculated Fields Form. It was not a user friendly experience, which is why I bought Formiddable Forms.

If you want to use it specifically as a lead magnet, then there are a bunch of plugin aimed at surveys and "personality type" quizzes, Riddle being one of them.

On the positive side, it seems to work and my page ranks well now. I would probably buy Formiddable Forms from the outset though.

 

[Ryuzaki]

Now that my content engine is more or less in place, I'd like to transition to interactive tools (calculators, quizzes, etc.)

But before I decide on a specific path, I want to make sure that:
- It can be executed quickly (I'd like to have at least 5 tools up & running by end of next week)
- Scale with traffic (1000's of daily uses and tens/hundreds of concurrent users)
- Works with WordPress

Has anyone gone down this path before? What do you recommend?

Thanks!

You or the plugin creators will have to be doing something catastrophically bad for a page or site to crash from that much usage, even with database querying or extra PHP processing, etc. The rest will be client side on the user's browser. You could code the most inefficient stuff and it'll still won't have much more (or even less) of an impact on the server than a basic Wordpress post with caching.

Most tools I'm thinking about that you could roll out as quickly as you described won't do any database stuff. It'll take user input and do all the calculation in the user's browser (Javascript & jQuery) from data stuffed in JSON or something.

But typically I'd say get it completed and done and then go back to optimizing if even needed, because pre-optimization is a trap.