Embedding poll in your post:

  1. Create a poll
  2. Get the poll id from manage menu of from editing form
  3. Type in your post: [poll:'id']

Embedding poll in your sidebar:

  1. Open sidebar.php in your theme directory
  2. Type this:
    <?php if(function_exists('show_poll')) print show_poll();?>

Creating poll archive page:

  1. Write new page. Type there: [pollsarchive]
  2. In Poll configuration set path to your poll archive

Keep your code valid

Wordpress formatting functions don't know about <fieldset> element which used in PoWPoll user form and break it's code. You can fix this.

  1. Open wp-includes/formatting.php
  2. Find this lines: $allblocks = '(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div| dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math| style|script|object|input|param|p|h[1-6])';
  3. Add fieldset to element list fieldset added

Hotkeys:

  1. Place cursor to option which position you want to change
  2. Press Ctr+Shift+Home or Ctrl+Shift+End to change option position
  3. Use Shift+Home, Shift+End to move from option to option
  4. Shift+Del — deletes selected option