What you can do is take whatever poll code you have and create a WP text widget.
Then create a forum post that discusses the poll.
Then go back to the widget and put in a link to the forum discussion below the poll.

Depending on what poll plugin, widget or source some even have a way to include links in the poll itself.

+1 on the thought that it would be sweet to be able to display polls in a widget — I like (like? noo, love!) the ease of use of the simple-press polls for my site owners but we’d also love to be able to then promote a poll via display in a widget. :0)

being able to put polls in a sidebar widget is quite problematic…  would be easier as a wp plugin than an sp plugin…

the issue is the forum ajax stuff that currently is not available on no forum pages… but it is on the list to experiment with in the future…

I actually experimented with using a plugin (YOP Poll) for this purpose and it actually works (linking a page or post with a poll to a forum topic).  Basically you would enable the shortcode of the poll plugin to display on a forum post.  The only problem was the formatting of the poll was getting lost in the forum, but nothing a bit of CSS editing couldn’t fix.  I didn’t test it extensively though, just to see if I could get the poll from a plugin to appear in a topic post.

sure… wp-polls plugin work similarly… only issue with it was that only admins could create new polls… so kind of depends on who and how you want to add new polls…

thanks for the tip…

I also agree (my first post, BTW, hello! ) it would be a nice feature!

Or at least to have a shortcode / widget to display poll results in a WP page and a link to the poll (e.g. something similar to http://slashdot.org but showing the Voting result bars only).

Howdy Jose!

The biggest problem with displaying polls outside of the forum page is resources… the needed resrouces (js, css, etc) are not loaded on non forum pages…    so we would be required to go through and determine what is needed and then load all that stuff on non forum pages since we would not know if the resources were needed or not… this could potentially slow down all non forum pages loads on your site…

of course its possible, we just havent had the time to go through the process and figure out which resources are needed…  but it is on the list to be looked at…