Quizes as custom posts (and how to change styles for all listings)

Dear @guid33,

Thank you for your topic.

For the first point, I want to note that adding the quiz to a post or page can be done through shortcodes.
Just copy it and paste it in the post/page you like.
See the screenshot below:

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Or you can use the Gutenberg block.

See the screenshot below:

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We also have an option called “Create Post for Quiz”.
See the screenshot below:

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Please check and see if this is the setup you’re looking for.

For the second point, you can create a new quiz and customize the styles you want to use.
Once you’ve set your desired style, you can click “Save as Default”.
Please note, that this will apply the saved style to only the newly-created quizzes, and the changes will not affect the quizzes you have already created.
See the screenshot below:

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Please note that the “Save as Default” feature is available in the Pro version.

Let us know if you have more questions.

Thank you.

Hello Jasmine,

thanks for your answer. I’m 20 years in apps and web development so you can go technical. And to have a context – I’m planing to have tens of editors (kids) working on quizes and a couple of administrators (parents). Here are my comments to your feedback:

1/ Thanks, of course I know that we can add quiz to a page or post via shortcode. But the goal is to omit duplication of something that already exists. From the SW architecture or business logic perspective, there will be a post object duplicating quiz object – and there is plenty of associated work and complications when quizzes have to be included inside posts. In addition to the above, e.g. comments, images (thumbnails), custom fields and many more so need to be inserted again to posts when I can’t work with the various Posts plugins and widgets directly with the quiz listing. The chapter itself is the ranking – your plugin can do it inside posts, but I want to rank the most popular quizzes on the homepage according to it, for example – and I don’t want to use your shorcode, because for logical reasons I need the user to open the standalone URL of the item. So I would have to limit your plugin features (commenting, pictures) in this way and deal with most of this meta information at the post level and not the quiz… See what I mean? But I can see that there’s probably no other way to do it, so thanks for the reply.

2/ As for global styling, this doesn’t strike me as a good solution at all – I want a universal thing that will work forward and backward on all quizzes. Can I achieve this via style.css or do you have any guidance/tutorial/best practices if I want to redo your graphics significantly enough to fit a modern design?

Best regards, Ivos

• This reply was modified 5 days, 6 hours ago by guid33.

Dear @guid33,

Thank you for your reply.

1. Thank you for your detailed inquiry.
I would like to clarify that our plugin is designed to create quizzes without relying on custom post types, which is one of the key features of our plugin.
Unfortunately, at this moment, it is not possible to create quizzes using custom post types or separate links with our plugin.

2. We can offer a few options for customizing the appearance of your quizzes.
Please choose the one that best fits your needs.

a. You can create a separate CSS file and write your desired styles in that file to override the default styles of the plugin. Afterward, enqueue the file through your theme’s functions.php file using wp_enqueue_style.

b. You can add your custom styles in the Theme > Customize > Additional CSS section.

c. Our plugin also offers a Custom CSS option, but please note that this will be limited to just one quiz.

d. Alternatively, you can directly edit our plugin’s CSS file located at: \wp-content\plugins\quiz-maker\public\css\quiz-maker-public.css
However, we don’t recommend this approach, as it may prevent you from updating the plugin in the future.
Any updates will overwrite your custom changes, and you will need to reapply them with each update.

<<<I’m planing to have tens of editors (kids) working on quizes and a couple of administrators (parents)
Regarding this, I’d like t mention that in the plugin’s General Settings, there is a functionality called “Who will have permission to Quiz”

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For more about this functionality, please refer to this link: https://quiz-plugin.com/docs/general-tab/

Please note that this feature is available in the PRO version of the plugin.

<<<…but I want to rank the most popular quizzes on the homepage according to it, for example – and I don’t want to use your shorcode, because for logical reasons I need the user to open the standalone URL of the item.
You can add a link to the homepage that leads to a separate page where the following shortcode can be used:
[ays_quiz_most_popular count=”1″]

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This will show the most taken quizzes.
You can also adjust the count attribute to specify how many quizzes you want to display.

Let us know if you have more questions.

Thank you.