DW Question Answer Pro documentation version 1.1.4
DW Question Answer is a WordPress Plugin which helps you build a Question & Answer system on your WordPress sites. The plugin is easy to install and set up. Let start building up your community with this WordPress question & answer system.
There are two installation types: Installing the plugin from WordPress Admin Plugin Upload and from FTP
General settings will give all general options to configure out for the question & answer plugin.
This section will allow you to select the questions listing page and the ask form question page. By defaults, these two pages are automatically created once the theme activated.
Also, you can select the styles for the DW Q&A. We have added 2 styles for the plugin.
You can select a login/register page that you wish.
You can cutomize the style if you know the code.
Question Setting section lets you configure settings such as: number of posts to show, enabling or disabling private questions and hide status of question
Answer Setting section will give you option to show all answers on a single question page only. Also, it allows you to enter number of the answers you wish to show on the single question page, You can Display admin answer first then display another answer and Answers must be manually approved.
This section allows you to block Spam Questions and Comments with only one click.
Enable the Captcha on Question or Answer page.
Register the Website in which you need to integrate Google reCaptcha API.
Here you enter your email, your domain and select your plugin as WordPress. Once done, press “ Register” button. After that, you will be required to verify your password before get started
This section allows you to enable/disable markdown syntax in the editor area of the question and answer editor. Also, you can allow mention a user in the comments and answers.
Use the following struct to mention a user: @username
If you like, you may enter custom structure for your single question, question category and question tag URLs here. For example, using topic as your question base would make your question links like http://your-website-link/topic/question-name/. If you leave these blank the default will be used.
Also you can select some the following option to make your question SEO friendly and Human-friendly at the same time.
If your updating makes your site inaccessible and your posts, questions return a 404 Error page, don’t panic, all your posts are still there and safe. What you need to do is fix the permalink settings of the DW Question & Answer plugin.
To do this, go to Admin Panel >> Settings >> Permalinks, scroll down and simply click on the Save Changes button
Plugin have included the upload file to question answer, you can insert the file types and file size.
This option allow you set the time to change the status of the questions to Closed status
This plugin allows you to set up notification email sent out to Admin and Users regarding new questions, answers and comments.
To configure, log in to Dashboard >> DW Q&A >> Settings >> Emails.
There are 7 email templates provided:
We already support a simple and clean style for email, simply Add your Logo and edit the content as you wish.
From Email: Fill in the sender email for notification system.
Permission Settings section allows you to control who and how they can interact on your Question & Answer page.
This section is in back-end: Dashboard >> DW Q&A >> Settings. There are 3 separate settings for Question, Answer and Comment, applied for default user roles of WordPress.
By default, one can always edit, delete his own questions, answers and comments. Thus, the Edit and Delete permission here in back-end mean that he can edit and delete ALL other questions, answers and comments.
As for anonymous users: they add answers, questions without logging in or registering.
The plugin now supports custom user roles from third party plugins.
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this template. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the DW Question Answer Pro plugin, you might consider visiting the question page here https://www.designwall.com/question/
At the moment, the plugin has the following shortcodes:
- List question: [dwqa-list-questions]
- Submit question form: [dwqa-submit-question-form]
- Search form: [dwqa-search-form]
- Submit question for each category: [dwqa-submit-question-form category="catslug"]
- List question by category: [dwqa-list-questions category="question"]