CM Answers free WordPress plugin
Description
CM Answers free WordPress plugin
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Enables users to post questions and answers (Q&A) in a stack overflow style. Includes voting, moderation, notifications, access control and more.
The CM Answers is a questions and answers plugin for WordPress that enables users to add questions and answers (Q&A) in a stack overflow style.
The Answers plugin allows users to post questions and answers, leave comments, vote, and upload files in a discussion board format.
Users of this WordPress answers plugin have full moderation access of questions and answers, can restrict user capabilities, and create multiple forum categories.
Admins also have the ability to customize the questions and answers, filter any unwanted content, add answers, and easily keep track of users actions in the forum.
The CM Answers discussion forum plugin has many other unique features, like voting for questions and answers, which allows administrators to customize it according to his or her needs.
Additional features of this ultimate WordPress questions and answers plugin include multiple file uploads, private messages, and the ability to subscribe to categories and certain topics, as well as receive notifications when there is new content.
Add-Ons & Extensions
CM MicroPayments
CM Answers Anonymous User Posting
PeepSO AddOn for Cm Answers
CM Ask the Expert
CM Answers Idea Stimulator
CM Answers Widgets
CM Answers Import and Export
CM Answers AnsPress Import
CM Answers Payments
Use-Cases
Forum – Puts a lightweight and easy to use Discussion Forum on your WordPress site or blog.
Support Forum – Supports your users while allowing them vote and answer existing topics that you moderate.
Community – Adds a discussion forum to your site that allow your members to start their own conversations and ask questions.
Questions & Answers – Users can answer questions sent in by other users.
Customer Support – Support for retail customer’s questions.
StackOverflow – Adds a StackOverflow style forum to your site.
Paid Support – Charge users for posted questions & answers.
Anonymous Posting – Support anonymous posting with aditional add-on
Basic Features
Includes a views count
Includes an answers count
Administrators can moderate question & answers and can receive email notifications.
Users can receive notifications when answering a question pending follow-up.
Sorting options in the question and answer pages.
Template can be easily customized according to users requirements.
We will be happy to add more language files and submit them to our WP community members. Currently we support: Spanish, German, Polish, Russian, French and Czech.
Pro Version Features
Pro Version Detailed Features List
Mobile Responsive – Adjusted design and uex for mobile devices.
Anonymous Posting – Support anonymous non logged-in user posting when used with Add-on.
Private Answers – Mark answer as private so only question author can see.
Private Question – Send questions privately to question author.
Advertisements – Integration with Ad-Sense or other Ads networks.
Comments – GAdd comments to question or answers.
MicroPayment – Grant or Charge virtual currency based on use-case.
Comments – Ability add comments for question and for answers.
Multiple Attachments – Multiple attachments in questions and answers.
Spam Report – User can report span questions or answers.
Access Control – Admin can define who can ask questions and who can answer based on user role.
Integration with Twitter – Users can register and post using existing Twitter account
Edit Question / Answers – Users can edit the question or the answer after submission.
BuddyPress – Stronger Integration with BuddyPress.
Two Levels Category Navigation – Support two level category navigation.
Ajax Support – Uses a Shortcode that displays the Category, supported by Ajax. Views of categories fit within the current site template.
Social Media Registration Integration – Integrates with Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn profiles. View Image, [See another image] (http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image2.png)
Shortcodes – Generates a Questions List by using a Shortcode: cma-questions with additional parameters. For example, limit=10 author=123 sort=hottest [View Demo] (http://answers.cminds.com/cm-answers-shortcode-example/)
User Dashboard – Adds “My Questions” and “My Answers” dashboards to the user profile page by using Shortcodes: cma-my-questions and cma-my-answers View Image
Categories – Ability to add categories and display them using a Shortcode. cat=catname View Demo, View Demo in Questions Index
Widgets – Widget integration that can sort and display hottest questions, most viewed, most recent answers and more. View Image
User Posting Meter – Ability to add the user’s profile of the number of posted questions and answers that the user has contributed displayed beside their user name. View Image
Show/Hide Views – Administrator can choose to hide or show the number of views that a topic has. View Image
Moderation- Administrators can define a list of users who are exempt and can post without any need of moderation. View Image
Multisite – Supports multisite.
Gravatar – Ability to display a Gravatar near the user’s name and in the user’s profile.
Order Answers – Shows and sorts all answers in ascending or descending order. View Image from Settings, View Demo
Attachment – Accepts file attachments when posting a question. Limits for file types and sizes. View Image, View Image from Settings
Localization Support – Frontend (user side) is localized.
View Count Control – Controls how a view count is tabulated (by view or by session). View Image from Settings
Public User Profile – Automatically generates a public profile page containing all the questions and answers a user has posted, with a link to his or her social media profile. View Image
Gratitude Message – Does not include our Gratitude Message in the footer.
Tags – Tags are fully supported. Administrators can control the appearance of tags with an available Tags widget. View Demo – Widget on the right, View Image
Sticky Questions – Supports sticky questions with an administrator defined background color. View Demo – First question is sticky, View Image When Admin edit question post, View Image from settings
Code Snippets in Posts – Support for code snippets and custom background color. View Demo of code inside a question, View Image from settings
Homepage – Supports options to define CM Answers as the Site or Blog homepage
Permalink – Customizable CM Answers permalink. View Image from settings
Disclaimer – Added Disclaimer support for first time users. View Image from Settings, View Image of when disclaimer appears
Social Share – Includes a social share widget in the question page. View Demo
Keywords
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