Have you ever found yourself in a scenario where, after delving into a technical article on a subject you’re keen to master, you’re left questioning whether you’ve truly grasped the content? In these moments, quizzes at the article’s conclusion become incredibly beneficial, offering a crucial means to test yourself. Incorporating a quiz on your website serves multiple purposes, whether assessing knowledge, gathering feedback, or exploring audience interests.
For a quiz to fully work, you need to create fields for questions and answers, the logic for transitions between questions, a system for calculating results, a database, and customize the appearance to adapt to the website’s design and all the devices – sounds pretty hard, doesn’t it? Not all developers have the skills or resources to develop a seamless quiz form for WordPress. It can take a huge amount of time and require knowledge, but with the help of a WordPress quiz plugin, you can do it in minutes. In this article, we will analyze the top 8 WordPress quiz plugins and the features by which we chose them.
At first glance, it may seem that all quiz plugins are the same and none of them will somehow stand out, but this is not so. Below, you will see the features by which I’ve selected the plugins:
You’re now acquainted with the criteria I used to identify the top plugins in this article. This knowledge empowers you to review your choices with a critical eye and start your research more confidently.
🏆 Best for audience engagement via social media.
If you’re committed to enhancing your website’s usability and boosting conversion rates, then Interact Quiz Maker stands out as your top choice. The plugin is specifically configured to create quizzes that will either “search” customers on social networks or redirect them to a specific product page.
Having installed the plugin, you will be surprised by its huge number of features, including, for example, creating a quiz using artificial intelligence. In addition to “technical” quizzes, you can create quizzes for fun (like finding out one’s character type, etc.) or create any other quiz type.
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Pricing: the price ranges from $27 to $125 per year.
Pros:
Cons: the UI remains quite vague (even with beginner tips) and could be more intuitive.
🏆 Best for automating quizzes on your website.
Formidable Forms offers 17 quiz templates, including a Product Recommendation Quiz, a Personality Quiz, and Harry Potter quizzes. You can also create a custom quiz from scratch by adding dynamic elements. The easy-to-use user interface has simplified the work with quizzes for more than 300,000 developers, which indicates its popularity.
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Pricing: available for free, but to get full functionality, you need to purchase the pro version (price ranges from $39.50 to $299.50 per year for new users).
Pros:
Cons: the free version offers very limited features.
🏆 Best for creating a large number of WordPress form types, including quizzes.
JetFormBuilder needs no introduction as a plugin for creating quizzes on WordPress. The plugin contains 19 blocks and 18 fields. Its rich set of fields includes not only standard text and selection fields but also specialized elements such as rating scales and sliders, which are ideal for creating interactive quizzes.
When creating quizzes, the most important aspect is that the questions are not only interesting but also tailored to the client, and the conditional logic feature from JetFormBuilder will help perfectly with this by making the questionnaire adapted to the client’s answers. Thanks to the simple interface and sleek design, any developer can understand and create a quiz in a matter of minutes.
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Pricing: a free version is available, but additional features cost between $49 and $129 per year.
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🏆 Best for creating educational quizzes.
Watu Quiz is a plugin created for not-very-simple quizzes, which require calculation, analysis, and dynamic user interaction processing. This functionality makes Watu Quiz a decent choice for sites seeking to provide quality educational content.
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Pricing: free, but there is a premium version whose price varies from $47 to $137.
Pros:
Cons: the design of quizzes is too simple.
🏆 Best for quizzes with instant feedback.
Quiz Maker can be considered a real master in creating quizzes on WordPress with its ready-made templates, animations, user certificates, and pop-ups. If you are to name a distinctive feature of Quiz Maker quizzes, it is interaction with the client. Despite its common name, Quiz Maker has already attracted more than 20,000 active users who appreciate its developers’ active support of the plugin.
Key features:
Pricing: the plugin has a free version, but to get all the features, you will need to purchase the advanced version, which costs from $59 to $299 (one-time payment).
Pros:
Cons: most features are available in the paid version.
🏆 Best for creating quizzes based on video content.
Quiz and Survey Master is a plugin for creating an educational program using quizzes. It is designed to work with a large number of questions, and if previous plugins also offered “entertaining” quizzes, then this plugin is tailored to fit an educational program. Quiz and Survey Master is perfect for testing knowledge after completing a course, for example.
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Pricing: there is a free and premium version starting from $49 per year.
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🏆 Best for analyzing user behavior through quizzes.
HD Quiz is an easy-to-use and smart plugin that stands out from the competition due to its ability to provide detailed reports on participant scores, giving site administrators valuable insights for analysis. In addition, it supports an innovative hint and feedback system, automatically offering helpful comments or explanations after each answer.
Key features:
Pricing: free; additional features can be purchased for $15.
Pros:
Cons: limited functionality.
🏆 Best for creating personalized quizzes.
Quiz Cat is a plugin that is so easy to use that even a child can understand it. The quizzes in this plugin emanate that childish vibe, but at the same time, Quiz Cat still has great functionality. The plugin is already actively used by 6,000 people, and its features look very promising, so let’s examine them.
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Pricing: free but has an advanced version, priced at $69-$149 per year.
Pros:
Cons: the free version is too limited.
As you have already seen in this article, quizzes are an additional interactive feature on the website that enhances the user experience and increases target actions—clicks, purchases, views—and plugins greatly help with enhancing engagement. The most important thing is distinguishing which plugin is suitable for which quizzes and with what features.
Let’s look at the plugins that we analyzed in the article:
Quizzes provide an additional way to interact with your visitors, allowing you to diversify your content and improve the user experience.
Although quizzes do not directly affect search rankings, they can indirectly improve your site's SEO because quizzes increase time spent on the page.
Yes, many quiz plugins offer the ability to automate data processing. This may include automatically sending user results to their email, integrating with CRM systems for audience segmentation and analysis, and automatically generating quiz performance reports (for example, in Excel sheets).
Of course, quizzes are an excellent tool for increasing user engagement. They attract attention and force visitors to actively interact with the content rather than just passively consume it.