Pulse - Polls and quizzes

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Hi everyone,

Needed a way to embed polls and quizzes directly into page content — shortcode in any text field, renders as a cache-safe interactive widget. Built it, it works well, sharing it.

GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Pulse

Screenshot:

What it does

Polls and quizzes embedded via shortcode into any text field:

[[pulse:poll name="my-poll"]]
[[pulse:quiz name="my-quiz"]]

Polls — voting with live results, multi-select, allow-other option, duplicate protection (cookie+IP, user session, or soft).

Quizzes — three modes:

• graded — points, pass/fail threshold, answer review
• personality — options award points to outcomes, winning outcome shown at end
• exam — graded plus timer, attempt limit, question bank, certificate

Visual questions — question-level images and image-option layouts.

Admin workspace — Setup → Pulse with full CRUD, analytics, CSV/JSON export, import, clone, and demo installer.

Security:

• All scoring server-side — is_correct / outcome_points never reach the client before submission
• CSRF mandatory on all submissions (token from /pulse/state)
• Honeypot + rate limiting by hashed IP
• Voter cookies and IPs stored as salted hashes only
• Exam HMAC-signed question sets, server-enforced timeouts, signed certificates

Cache-safe: renders a static shell, hydrates via JS — works with ProCache.

Requirements: ProcessWire 3.0+, PHP 8.2+

MIT License.