Question and Answer Forum

version:2.1.4
Allows a question and answer forum to be added to a site/blog. Can be fully integrated with your theme using custom post types.

Author:David Woodford (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.0
WordPress version tested:3.4.1
Plugin version:2.1.4
Added to WordPress repository:02-07-2010
Last updated:19-06-2012
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Allows a question and answer forum to be added to a site/blog. Can be fully integrated with your theme using custom post types though knowledge of these is not required to use it. The question form and tables showing lists of questions asked is can be created using shortcodes.

Users can ask a question from a form placed on a page on your site. The question will then be added to the site and will be displayed as a post (using a custom post type). Users can answer the question using the comment form.

The plugin also provides some optional basic features to provide user profile pages (which the user can edit from the fontend) which include a table of the number of questions, answers and best answers the user has given. Additionally a login/register form (though the this form is still under development) is provided. You can use the plugin to replace all links for registered commenter's to their profile page.

The display of the questions and user profiles can be customised using your theme. By default questions will be displayed using the template used for your posts allowing answering of the question using your comment form. Creating a single-question.php allows you full control of how it looks.

If you have WordPress 3.1 or higher all the questions asked will be displayed at /question/recent and can be customised by editing archive-question.php in your theme.

Important

There is no guarantee that this plugin works or is secure nor that I will update it or provide support for it.

Features:

  • ask question form short code
  • list question short code
  • email admin when question is asked capability
  • custom email to author of question when question is answered
  • display of questions can be customised by theme
  • back end question moderation
  • dashboard widget showing last 5 questions
  • user profiles including a tables with the number of questions, answers and best answers they have provided.
  • best answers

Localisation

I have been provided with some localisation of the core features for the frontend by Yuriy Petrovskiy. If you are fluent in another language please get in touch through the options pages of the plugin if you have translated the plugin.

Current translations are: