Question Answer Plugin
Create Awesome Question and Answer Website in a Minute
Built Question Answer site for your WordPress.
Plugin Features
- schema.org support.
- Archive page via shortcode.
- Frontend question submission form via shortcode.
- Awesome account page via shortcode.
- Ton of filter & action hook to extend.
Archive page features
- Responsive archive page for questions.
- Featured question at top with highlighted background.
- Question solved marker.
- Search & filtering by user slug, category, keywords, question status.
- Search by question categories.
- Different sorting by title, comment count, latest & date.
- Display view count for questions.
- Display answers count.
- Display up vote & down vote buttons.
- Breadcrumb navigation & menu.
- Add question button at top right.
- User thumbnail.
- Pagination.
Single question page features
- Breadcrumb navigation & menu.
- Admin can change post status.
- User thumbnail, role display.
- Question category, posting date & time, total answer count display.
- Admin and quesiton poster can make the question as solved or un-solved.
- Any user can subscribe the question to gey notifications.
- Admin can marked as featured question.
- Question comments.
- Subscriber total count & list with thumbnail display.
- WP Editor for answer posting.
- Private or public answer. private answer only can display admin and question poster and answer poster.
- Answer sortings by voted, top voted & older.
- Best answer, admin & question poster can choose best answer. best answer can be remove future and choose another.
- Answer up vote & down vote.
- Answer comments. ajax based submission.
- Flag for comments to warn user.
Question submission for features
- Based on filter hook & easy to extend for add custom input fields.
- Default input fields are title, content, status, categories, tags.
- reCAPTCHA on question submission.
Add-ons
Shortcodes
QA dashboard
[qa_dashboard]
Question submission
[qa_add_question]
Question Archive
[question_archive]
Translation
Plugin is translation ready , please find the ‘en.po’ for default translation file under ‘languages’ folder and add your own translation. you can also contribute in translation, please contact us https://pickplugins.com/forum/
Installation
- Install as regular WordPress plugin.
- Go your plugin setting via WordPress Dashboard and find “Question Answer” activate it.
Screenshots
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FAQ
Single question page showing 404 error , how to solve ? Please go “Settings > Permalink Settings” and save again to reset permalink.
Changelog
1.2.70
- 2023-07-03 fix – question search by keyword issue fixed.
- 2023-07-03 fix – comment submission with link issue fixed.
1.2.69
- 2023-06-20 fix – Anonymous quesiton user name issue fixed.
- 2023-06-20 fix – admin actions for single question security update.
- 2023-06-20 fix – unnecessary error log issue fixed.
1.2.68
- 2022-12-19 fix – Email templates saving issue fixed.
1.2.67
- 2022-10-30 fix – Private question access issue fixed
1.2.65
- 2022-10-29 fix – Question submission private issue fixed.
1.2.64
- 2022-10-29 fix – Question submission private issue fixed.
1.2.62
- 2022-10-10 fix – reCAPTCHA issue on question submission issue fixed.
1.2.62
- 2022-09-22 fix – question submission post status issue fixed.
1.2.61
- 2022-09-10 add – question submission post status issue fixed.
- 2022-09-10 add – question submission content format issue fixed.
1.2.60
- 2022-08-28 add – access private question by user role,
- 2022-08-28 add – access private answers by user role,
1.2.58
- 2022-08-17 add – function for total answer count for question.
- 2022-08-17 add – shortcode for total answer count for question.
1.2.57
- 2022-06-16 fix – Settings page broken style issue fixed.
- 2022-06-16 fix – Question mark as closed on posting.
1.2.56
- 2022-06-11 fix – Answer content HTML format issue fixed.
1.2.55
- 2022-06-04 fix – display best answer on all question
1.2.54
- 2022-06-01 add – Show best answer on top
1.2.53
- 2022-05-19 fix – function ‘question_answer_single_question_scripts’ not found or invalid function issue fixed.
1.2.52
- 2022-05-10 fix – ajax issue fixed.
1.2.51
- 2022-05-10 fix – remove unnecessary scripts file loading.
1.2.50
- 2022-04-23 fix – question submit form issue fixed for slash issue
1.2.49
- 2021-06-23 update – some links marked as nofollow
1.2.48
- 2021-04-22 fix – html format issue fixed.
1.2.47
- 2021-04-16 fix – minor security issue updated
- 2021-04-16 fix – css file loading issue fixed.
1.2.46
- 2021-04-13 fix – security issue updated
1.2.45
- 2021-01-11 add – User can’t comment on closed question answers.
- 2021-01-11 add – Closed marker on question archive and single question page.
1.2.44
- 2021-01-10 update – question archive advance search option added.
1.2.43
- 2020-04-26 fix – submitted private question status issue fixed.
1.2.42
- 2020-03-25 fix – answer submit mail issue fixed.
1.2.41
- 2020-03-25 add – add password field on question submission to create use account.
- 2020-03-25 add – display custom notice at archive, single question, dashobard, question submission.
- 2020-03-25 add – invite user to answer.
1.2.40
- 2020-03-20 add – question vote button added.
- 2020-03-20 fix – answer vote issue fixed.
- 2020-03-20 fix – question content wpautop issue fixed.
- 2020-03-20 fix – question content embed issue fixed.
- 2020-03-20 fix – question content shortcode issue fixed.
- 2020-03-20 add – question assign to user as support stuff or request to answer.
- 2020-03-20 add – mark as closed question no longer accept new answers.
- 2020-03-20 add – non-logged user can’t make private question.
- 2020-03-20 add – non-logged user can create account on question submission.
- 2020-03-20 add – non-logged user can chose username on question submission.
- 2020-03-20 add – contact email for non-logged user on question submission.
- 2020-03-20 fix – Poll can’t be empty issue fixed.
- 2020-03-20 update – redesigned question archive.
- 2020-03-20 update – redesigned welcome setup.
- 2020-03-20 remove – remove help & addons menu
1.2.39
- 12/10/2019 update – re-designed admin settings
1.2.38
- 25/09/2019 update – sort question archive by last update answer, comments
1.2.36
- 25/09/2019 fix – responsive issue on question submit form
1.2.35
- 5/07/2019 fix – PHP error issue fixed.
1.2.34
- 17/06/2019 fix – Fixed poll issue, added back.
1.2.33
- 16/06/2019 re-write – Rewrite question submit form. added new action hook.
1.2.32
- 07/03/2019 fix – answer reply load more order issue fixed.
1.2.31
- 02/03/2019 add – answer reply order.
1.2.30
- 04/10/2018 fix – hide notification for non logged-in user
1.2.29
- 28/09/2018 fix – some minor php issue fixed.
- 28/09/2018 update – notification icon changed.
1.2.28
- 26/09/2018 add – Notification on single question page.
- 26/09/2018 add – add question button on single question page.
- 26/09/2018 add – back to archive button on single question page.
- 26/09/2018 add – Search button on single question page.
- 26/09/2018 add – Notification count is back.
1.2.27
- 24/09/2018 fix – Visitor posting answer issue fixed.
1.2.26
- 10/09/2018 fix – Adding poll issue fixed.
1.2.25
- 15/08/2018 re-write – Re-design question archive.
1.2.24
- 11/07/2018 fix – Error message for home page
1.2.23
- 04/05/2018 add – Widget Leaderboard exclude user by id,
1.2.22
- 19/03/2018 add – shortcode user profile added.
1.2.21
- 10/03/2018 update – improved breadcrumb.
- 10/03/2018 update – improved single question answer pagination.
- 10/03/2018 update – Ajax load more comments for answer.
- 13/03/2018 add – User cards.
- 13/03/2018 add – User follow.
- 13/03/2018 add – Paginated answer.
1.2.20
- 04/02/2018 fix – Conflict with Yoast SEO plugin on post status change
1.2.18
- 01/02/2018 update – Ready for translate.wordpress.org
- 01/02/2018 fix – Question vote issue fixed
1.2.17
- 01/02/2018 fix – Conflict with Yoast SEO plugin
- 01/02/2018 update – mobile optimize for question answer reply.
1.2.16
- 30/01/2018 update – ajax on answer post
1.2.14
- 24/11/2017 update – remove single question template and use filter single.php content
- 24/11/2017 remove – remove action hook qa_action_single_question_title()
- 24/11/2017 remove – remove action hook on single question page qa_action_breadcrumb()
- 24/11/2017 remove – remove action hook qa_action_admin_actions()
- 24/11/2017 remove – remove action hook qa_action_single_question_content()
- 24/11/2017 remove – remove action hook qa_action_single_question_subscriber()
1.2.14
- 08/11/2017 fix – user login added to dashboard.
- 08/11/2017 fix – user register added to dashboard.
- 08/11/2017 remove – remove option “Show profile management?”.
1.2.13
- 05/11/2017 update – [qa_dashboard] shortcode added.
- 05/11/2017 update – [qa_myaccount] shortcode removed.
- 05/11/2017 update – [qa_my_account] shortcode added.
- 05/11/2017 update – [qa_edit_account] shortcode added.
- 05/11/2017 update – [qa_my_questions] shortcode added.
1.2.12
- 05/11/2017 update – Single question template update.
1.2.10
- 08/10/2017 fix – Notification loading issue fixed.
1.2.9
- 07/10/2017 add – ajax notification loading.
1.2.8
- 21/09/2017 fix – Notification for comment vote up.
1.2.7
- 01/08/2017 add – new widget – Top questions.
- 01/08/2017 update – update widget – Leaderborad.
1.2.6
- 11/05/2017 add – Comment up & down vote.
- 11/05/2017 update – Notification area width.
1.2.5
1.2.4
- 29/04/2017 fix – Duplicate post displaying on archive page.
1.2.3
- 29/04/2017 add – Some color option added.
1.2.2
- 25/04/2017 add – redirect to correct url after change status.
1.2.1
- 24/04/2017 add – notification bubble hide when zero.
- 24/04/2017 add – featured question at first on archive.
1.2.0
- 24/04/2017 add – search keyword.
- 24/04/2017 update – Best answer style update.
- 24/04/2017 update – Answer reply button style update.
- 24/04/2017 update – question post status submit update.
1.0.30
- 17/04/2017 add – Ask question button at breadcrumb right side.
1.0.29
- 11/03/2017 fix – Reply on answer logged-in user name.
1.0.27
- 20/02/2017 add – Latest Questions widget.
1.0.26
- 02/02/2017 fix – sidebar issue fixed.
1.0.25
- 18/01/2017 add – added Swedish translation file.
- 18/01/2017 fix – private answer reply display issue fixed.
1.0.24
- 03/01/2017 add – Custom link redirect after login via my account page.
- 03/01/2017 fix – Custom link redirect login on question submit page.
1.0.23
- 09/12/2016 fix – Submitted question status issue fixed.
1.0.22
- 22/11/2016 add – Added poll on questions.
1.0.21
- 21/11/2016 add – manage answer post by role.
- 21/11/2016 add – manage post comment on answer by role.
1.0.20
- 21/11/2016 fix – broken div issue fixed single question.
1.0.19
- 21/11/2016 add – ajax suggestion list before submit question.
1.0.18
- 21/11/2016 add – Quick Notes for answer reply.
1.0.17
- 18/11/2016 fix – choosing best answer loggedout user issue fixed.
1.0.16
- 18/11/2016 add – Question vote on archive page.
1.0.15
- 30/10/2016 update – Responsive update.
1.0.14
- 30/10/2016 fix – Only admin can make featured question.
- 30/10/2016 fix – missing closing div on single question page.
- 31/10/2016 fix – private answer display issue fixed.
1.0.13
- 20/10/2016 add – Question comment permalink added.
- 20/10/2016 add – Answers comment permalink added.
- 20/10/2016 fix – Time in notification fixed.
1.0.12
- 17/10/2016 fix – link issue fixed on answer comment text.
1.0.11
- 12/10/2016 add – Comment popup removed.
- 12/10/2016 fix – minor php issue fixed.
- 12/10/2016 add – date & time for notifications.
1.0.10
- 30/09/2016 add – Comments wpautop added.
1.0.9
- 21/09/2016 add – marked as read & unread notifications.
1.0.8
- 20/09/2016 fix – answer display issue fixed after submitted.
1.0.7
- 19/09/2016 add – question submit form filterbale.
1.0.6
- 07/09/2016 add – admin can publish, draft, pending from frontend.
- 07/09/2016 add – Best Answer background color.
1.0.5
- 06/09/2016 add – subscriber for answer.
- 06/09/2016 add – Best Answer.
- 06/09/2016 add – Featured question.
- 06/09/2016 add – Social share icons.
- 06/09/2016 add – comment link fixed on notification box.
- 06/09/2016 add – answer link fixed on notification box.
1.0.4
- 28/08/2016 add – subscriber for questions.
1.0.3
- 28/08/2016 add – addons page.
1.0.2
- 27/08/2016 add – Bangla translation.
1.0.1
- 25/08/2016 add – Notifications.
1.0.0
- 10/08/2016 Initial release.