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How to Create a Question and Answers Site in WordPress

Creating a question-and-answer site can be a rewarding project, whether you want to build a dedicated platform like Stack Overflow or simply add a Q&A section to your existing WordPress site.

Having a space for helpful questions and answers can improve the visitor experience. It keeps people on your website longer and encourages them to return. Plus, an active Q&A section can boost your site’s visibility in search results.

With all that said, it’s easy to get stuck on the “Where do I start?” question, but don’t worry – we’re here to help!

At WPBeginner, we often include FAQs in our guides and use FAQ schema to target rich snippet results on Google. This approach closely aligns with building a question-and-answer site, making us the right people to help you get started.

In this article, we will explain how to create a question-and-answer site in WordPress.

How to create a question and answers site in WordPress

Getting Started with a Question and Answer Website

To start your own question and answers website, you will need the following:

  • A domain name. This is the name of your website, such as stackoverflow.com.
  • A web hosting account. This is where your website’s files are stored. All websites need web hosting.
  • A Content Management System (CMS). This is software that helps you create, publish, and manage all your questions and answers. For this guide, we will use WordPress, which powers nearly 43% of all websites and gives you complete control over your content. To learn more about why we recommend WordPress to all our readers, please see our complete WordPress review with pros and cons.
  • Extra software, plugins, or tools. These add special question-and-answer features to your WordPress website.

How Much Does It Cost to Build a Question and Answer Website?

The answer to this question depends on the features you need, how many visitors you get, how much content you create, and lots of other factors.

To help you budget, we’ve created a complete guide on how much it really costs to build a website. However, the cost can typically range from $100 per year to as high as $30,000 per year.

We recommend that you start small and then add more features to your question-and-answer site as it grows and becomes more popular. This will help you avoid spending too much on your site before it starts making a profit.

With that in mind, we will show you how to build a successful Q&A website for under $100. Here’s a quick look at all the steps we’ll discuss:

Ready? Let’s get started.

Step 1: Setting Up Your Question and Answers Site

To create a WordPress website, you’ll need a domain name and web hosting.

To help you out, we’ve hand-picked some of the best WordPress hosting that you can buy for a question-and-answer website.

Although the WordPress software is free, hosting and domain names are where the costs can really start to add up.

A domain name typically costs $14.99/year, and hosting costs start from $7.99/month. This is A LOT for new websites or anyone working with a limited budget.

Luckily, Bluehost has agreed to offer our users a free domain name and a huge discount on web hosting. Basically, you can get started for $1.99 per month.

Bluehost is one of the largest hosting companies in the world and an officially recommended WordPress hosting provider.

They’re also offering our readers a free SSL certificate, so you can accept payments online. This is perfect if you want to make money from your question-and-answer website in the future.

To buy a domain name and hosting, simply go to the Bluehost website in a new browser window and click on the green ‘Get Started Now’ button.

Bluehost website

This will bring you to a pricing page where you can choose a hosting plan for your question-and-answer website.

We recommend choosing a Basic or Choice Plus plan, as they’re the most popular web hosting plan among our readers.

Bluehost pricing plans

After selecting a plan, you can click on ‘Continue.’

On the next screen, you’ll need to choose a domain name.

Choose domain name

Ideally, the domain name will be easy to pronounce, spell, and remember.

Need help choosing a domain name for your question-and-answer website? Then, you might want to read our guide on how to choose the best domain name.

After choosing a name, let’s click on the ‘Next’ button to continue.

Now, you’ll need to provide your account information, such as your name and email address. After that, you’ll also see optional extras that you can purchase.

We generally don’t recommend purchasing these extras straight away, as you can always add them later if you need them.

Bluehost uncheck extras

The next step is to type in your payment information to complete the purchase.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll get an email with instructions on how to log in to your web hosting control panel. This is your hosting account dashboard where you can manage your Q&A website, including setting up email notifications and asking for WordPress support if you need it. It’s also where you’ll install the WordPress software.

Step 2: Installing WordPress on Your Question and Answer Website

When you sign up with Bluehost using our link, they will automatically install WordPress for you.

You can then simply log in to your WordPress website by clicking on the ‘Edit Site’ button.

Login to WordPress by click on the Edit Site button in Bluehost

If you don’t see a website here, then you can always install WordPress using Bluehost’s installer.

Just click the ‘Add Site’ button under the Websites section to launch the installer.

Bluehost add new site

Once that process is finished, you can log in to the WordPress dashboard by simply going to yoursite.com/wp-admin/ directly from your browser.

If you’re using a different WordPress website host like SiteGround, Hostinger, or HostGator, then you can see our complete guide on how to install WordPress for all the top hosting providers.

Step 3: Selecting a WordPress Theme

After installing WordPress, you’ll typically want to change the default theme. WordPress themes are professionally designed templates that change how your site looks and acts.

There are many different premium and free WordPress business themes to choose from. Alternatively, you can explore the niche industry and multipurpose WordPress theme options.

Another option is to use a landing page builder plugin such as SeedProd.

SeedProd's homepage

SeedProd is the best drag-and-drop WordPress page builder and comes with built-in templates that you can use to build a professionally designed question-and-answer website.

It even has a ready-made FAQ section to add to any page using drag and drop.

A SeedProd page builder, with an FAQ section

Once you’ve chosen a theme, please see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress theme.

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Step 4: Setting up Your Question and Answers Site

The easiest way to add question-and-answer features to your WordPress website is by using the AnsPress plugin. This plugin allows you to create a Stack Overflow-style question-and-answer site.

How to create a question and answer site using WordPress

Even better, AnsPress automatically creates all the pages you need to launch a successful Q and A site.

This includes a page where visitors can type in their questions, similar to how people use websites like Quora.

An example of a question and answer site, created using WordPress

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the AnsPress plugin. For more details, you can go through our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, AnsPress automatically adds question-and-answer pages to your WordPress website. To see these pages, you’ll want to head over to AnsPress » Settings from the WordPress dashboard.

Once there, you can select ‘General’ in the menu on the left-hand side.

The AnsPress question and answer WordPress plugin

This page lists all the different pages that AnsPress has created.

To take a closer look at any page, simply click on ‘View page.’

Changing the question and answer settings in WordPress

The default AnsPress pages should be a good fit for most WordPress blogs and websites. However, you can always add your own content to these pages.

For example, you might add some text that encourages visitors to post their questions and tells them when to expect an answer.

Customizing the default question and answer page in WordPress

To add your own content to any AnsPress page, you can simply click on the ‘Edit page’ link next to it.

This will open the standard WordPress post editor to add and customize text, images, and more.

An example of question and answer WordPress shortcode

As you can see, AnsPress adds all its content using the Shortcode block, so you don’t want to change this code in any way.

When you’re happy with the changes you’ve made, just click on ‘Update.’

Customizing the question submission page in WordPress

You can edit any default AnsPress page by following the same process described above.

When you’ve finished, don’t forget to click on ‘Save Pages’ to store your settings.

Changing the AnsPress WordPress plugin settings

By default, AnsPress adds the following message to all its pages: ‘Question and answer is powered by anspress.net.’ This can make your site look less professional.

It also links to the AnsPress site, which can hurt your pageviews and bounce rate, as it can encourage people to leave your site.

An example of a question and answer site, with a 'Powered by' disclaimer

Because of that, it’s a good idea to remove this text by checking the box next to ‘Hide author credits’ and then clicking on ‘Save Changes.’

Now, if you look at any AnsPress page, you’ll see that the text has vanished.

Removing the 'Powered by' disclaimer from a question and answer site

With that done, let’s scroll to the ‘Permalinks’ section in the AnsPress settings.

Here, you’ll see the permalink structure and settings that the plugin uses by default. These settings should work well for most websites, but you may be able to improve your WordPress SEO by making some small changes.

Changing the Q and A permalink settings on your site

For example, you may want to add some relevant keywords to the default ‘Question slug.’ This can help you create more SEO-friendly URLs in WordPress.

In the image below, each question will now use the slug /questions/wordpress-questions/question-name/ which will help us rank for the term ‘WordPress questions’.

Changing the permalink settings on a Q&A WordPress website

If you do make any changes in this section, then don’t forget to click on ‘Save Changes.’

Next, it’s time to fine-tune the layout by scrolling to the ‘Layout’ section. Here, you’ll see that AnsPress shows the user’s Gravatar in a few different places, including next to questions, answers, and comments.

Customizing the profile pictures on a question and answer website

You can change the size of these avatars by typing into the different boxes.

For more information on user avatars, please see our beginner’s guide on Gravatars and why you should start using them right away.

By default, AnsPress will show 20 questions per page and 5 answers per page. You can show more or less content by typing new numbers into the ‘Questions per page’ or ‘Answers per page’ box.

Showing more or less questions and answers on your Quora-style WordPress website

If you show fewer questions and answers per page, then users will need to scroll less. This is particularly helpful for visitors who are using smaller devices like smartphones and tablets. It can also speed up your WordPress performance since you’re loading less content.

Just be aware that most visitors expect to get the right answer on the first page, so you’ll want to show a reasonable number of answers per page.

When you’re happy with how your Q&A site is set up, you can go ahead and click the ‘Submit’ button.

Step 5: Configuring Email Notifications and User Registration

Email notifications are an important part of running a successful question-and-answer website. They let admins know when customers or potential leads post a new question, and users know when their question gets answered.

In this way, email notifications can keep users engaged and help your Q&A site run more smoothly.

AnsPress comes with built-in email notifications that work out of the box. However, it’s still smart to check whether there are any changes you want to make by clicking on the ‘Email’ link.

Customizing the email settings in your Stack Overflow-style WordPress website

Here, you can see all the emails AnsPress sends automatically.

To enable or disable an email, simply click on the box next to it.

Changing the email notifications on a Q&A website

Expert Tip: You need to make sure all your Q&A emails go to the user’s email inbox and not to the spam folder. The best way to do this is by using an SMTP service provider to improve email deliverability.

For more details, see our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.

As always, don’t forget to click on ‘Submit’ to save your changes.

Now, let’s address user registration issues.

Some question-and-answer sites are completely open to the public. This means that non-logged-in users can see the content and may even be able to post questions and answers without creating an account.

Other Q&A sites are completely private or require user registration.

There are drawbacks and positives to the different approaches. A public question-and-answer site will typically get more traffic and engagement, but it may also get more spam and attract low-quality answers.

If you’re using questions and answers to make money online blogging with WordPress, then you may want to make some parts of your site members-only. This allows you to charge a subscription fee using a plugin like MemberPress.

Another option is to allow people to register with your website for free so you can collect their email addresses. Your question-and-answer site can help you generate leads like a pro.

However you plan to use your question-and-answer site, it’s a good idea to review the posting permissions by selecting ‘User Access Control.’

The user access control settings

Here, you can see all the different content that logged-in and non-logged-in users can access and the actions they take. You can change these settings using the different dropdown menus.

You can also change whether questions and answers are posted automatically or held for admin approval. By default, non-logged-in users can post questions and answers, but you’ll need to approve them manually in the admin area.

This is similar to how you moderate comments in WordPress.

These settings are self-explanatory, but they have a big impact on how your question-and-answer site runs. So, it’s worth going through the different settings carefully when making any changes.

Changing the posting permissions on your Stack Exchange-style WordPress website

If you do edit these settings, then don’t forget to click the ‘Submit’ button.

Step 6: Encouraging Users to Engage with Your Q&A Site

AnsPress encourages users to engage with your site through gamification by awarding reputation points for different actions. This reputation system works by default, but you can change how many points AnsPress awards for each action by selecting ‘Reputations.’

Here, you’ll see all the different actions and their reputation points.

Adding a reputation points-based system to a Q and A website

To award more or less points for an action, simply type a new number into its box. When you’re happy with how the reputation system is set up, click on Save Events Points.

You may want to look through some more settings, but this should be enough to help you set up a successful question-and-answer website.

When you’re happy with how the plugin and pages are set up, it’s a good idea to add them to your website’s navigation menu so visitors can find them.

A WordPress menu with question and answer links

For step-by-step instructions, please see our beginner’s guide on how to add a navigation menu in WordPress.

If you need reminding about all the different pages that AnsPress added to your site, then simply go to AnsPress » Settings and click on the ‘Pages’ link.

Step 7: Managing Your Question and Answer Site

At this point, your site is ready to start accepting user questions and answers. However, depending on how your Q&A site is set up, you may need to manually approve some or all of these posts.

By default, AnsPress will email the WordPress admin about any questions or answers that need manual approval. You’ll also see notifications in the admin dashboard.

Managing your WordPress question and answer site

To manually approve an answer or question, simply click on either ‘All Questions’ or ‘All Answers’ in the left-hand menu.

You can then hover your mouse over the post that you want to review and click on ‘View.’

Approving questions and answers on a Q&A WordPress blog or website

This will show a preview of how the question or answer will look on your website.

If you’re happy to make it live, then click on the small cog icon and then select ‘Published.’

Approving a question or answer on your WordPress website

If you don’t want to publish the post, then select ‘Delete’ or ‘Delete Permanently’ instead.

Bonus Tip: Adding FAQ Schema to the FAQ Site

After creating an FAQ site, you might want to consider using FAQ schema. This gives your content a better shot at appearing in search results, helping you reach more people and improving your site’s traffic.

Add FAQs to All in One SEO

FAQ schema is a special type of code you can add to your website to help Google recognize your FAQ section. When you use it, Google might show your FAQs directly in search results right under your website’s name.

This extra visibility can attract more visitors and make your site look like a trusted source.

With FAQ schema, you control the questions and answers. You can even add emojis to make your content more engaging.

Your FAQs might also appear in the ‘People Also Ask’ boxes, giving you another chance to get noticed in search results.

Example of FAQ rich result

To learn more, you can check out our step-by-step guide on how to add FAQ schema in WordPress.

We hope this article helped you create a question-and-answer site in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to make a link on the bio page or our expert list of popular types of websites you can make in WordPress for inspiration.

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85 CommentsLeave a Reply

  1. Mrteesurez

    Questions and answers websites is one of the website type to build online community and support portal for people online. It’s fosters collaboration and unity among members, users easily get access to answers for their Questions.
    Please, I will like to ask if Q/A websites are still valuable and relevant in the era of AI generative contents ?

    • WPBeginner Support

      Yes, they can still rank and can be helpful to your users.

      Admin

    • Jiří Vaněk

      Yes, they are very valuable. From my perspective, even in the age of AI, it’s primarily about sharing data and experiences that AI, for example, does not have. On the other hand, it’s also about creating a community and friendships on the web, which will make users want to return to the site. Therefore, from my point of view, it has several benefits. Sharing information, building a community, and also creating returning users. No AI can replace this yet. And it’s mainly about real experiences and not always just bare facts.

      • Mrteesurez

        Thanks you Mr. Jiří Vaněk, for your insightful comment. You’ve highlighted some crucial points that resonate with me. The importance of sharing real experiences, building a community, and creating a space where users feel connected and want to return is invaluable. In the age of AI, these human elements can’t be replicated, and they offer a unique way to engage users. I’ll definitely keep these factors in mind as I work on my own projects. Your perspective is very helpful!

    • Moinuddin Waheed

      I think making a question answer website is still very much relevant in the age of ai.
      This is because this q/a website will help in catering the need and aspirations of your business and will help in making engagement around the business you provide.
      this will eventually help in brand making and conversions.
      ai at best uses as an assistant and not as a standalone tool to accomplish tasks.

  2. Moinuddin Waheed

    AnsPress is such a powerful plugin that we would be able to make a stack overflow like website on our own.
    in stack overflow any one can post a question and anyone can answer the question just by logging in.
    will this feature be available in this plugin or will we need to have some custom code snippet to make that possible?

    • WPBeginner Support

      The plugin would allow users to answer questions that others post.

      Admin

  3. Moinuddin Waheed

    I am working on making a forum for my course website where students can ask questions and anyone can give answers to it.
    I want it to be like a discussion forum which can ensure website engagement.
    I think anspress can suffice my need.
    however, I don’t want it to be a standalone website rather a navigation tab in the main website with the name forum.
    is there a possibility to make one with ansPress plugin?
    or could you please recommend any other ?

    • WPBeginner Support

      You can do that, you would have normal homepage and you can link to the question and answer section in your menu as you would any other page on your site.

      Admin

  4. Gopal K

    This plugin hasn’t updated from past one year please updated alternative QA plugin list.

    • WPBeginner Support

      Thank you for letting us know, we will be sure to take a look at updating this article when we are able.

      Admin

  5. Jasmin

    How to add members

  6. Andde

    Does this questions appear in google search results?

    • WPBeginner Support

      That would depend on Google and their opinion on the content.

      Admin

  7. MuneeburRehman

    Hi,
    Which Theme we use for this Plugin…?

    • WPBeginner Support

      A specific theme is not required to use this plugin :)

      Admin

  8. Malay

    After activating the plugin I am only getting DW Question Answer page.
    The DWQA Ask Question page is not reflecting.
    What am I mising over here?

    • WPBeginner Support

      If I’m understanding your question correctly, you may need to clear your cache if it is a display issue. If you mean you’re not able to list the questions then you would need to reach out to the plugin’s support.

      Admin

  9. Sam

    How can I promote my questions and answers website.

  10. Brij Bhushan

    This article is very useful and informative …………..your way of writing is really easy and understandable I learn so much from your blog thanks for sharing such an informative article

    • WPBeginner Support

      Glad you like our content :)

      Admin

  11. Bob

    Why this form of Q&A versus a traditional discussion forum such as BBPress? What are the pros and cons of each?

    Bob

    • WPBeginner Support

      The main bonus of using the plugin from this article is the option to upvote specific answers while a forum is not required to answer questions. It is personal preference for what to use for what you’re trying to achieve.

      Admin

  12. Askedon

    Isn’t there any other way of creating such website? I mean without the use of a plugin?

    • WPBeginner Support

      While you could make something similar without using plugins, it would require a large number of customizations to make it a simple process for your users which the plugin allows.

      Admin

  13. Brij Bhushan

    Such a more valuable information. I also read your all Blogs. This is awesome!! I’ve always enjoyed reading your blog. Keep writing such kind of info on your page. I am really impressed with this type of writing. Thanks for sharing with us.

    • WPBeginner Support

      Glad you like our articles :)

      Admin

  14. Ian

    This is helpful but when I generate a new question the formatting goes all wrong. I have a transparent header and menu and because the questions is generated on a white background I lose this visibility. Likewise as I edit a question page to make it look right as soon as I generate another question the format reverts back. How do I overcome this?

    • WPBeginner Support

      You would want to reach out to your specific theme to see if this is a conflict between your theme and the plugin.

      Admin

  15. Anna

    Hello,

    I would like to enable the option of adding comments and answers without a need to be logged in and without the requirement for an email address. How can I do it? Right now to add anything person needs to give the email.

    Thanks in advance.
    Anna

    • WPBeginner Support

      You would want to go into the plugin’s settings to allow anonymous posting or comments

      Admin

  16. Graham FB

    I use a site that the questions asked come in the form of an email. I know postie plugin can convert the email to a post. Can any of the Q and A plugins accept” questions by email ?

    • WPBeginner Support

      We don’t have a specific one we would recommend at the moment but this method does give an option for your users to submit the questions through your site.

      Admin

  17. Arti Sharma

    Very nice collections of question answer sites, i have found here best question answer site over my search experience. and also its great use for my question’s answer,thanks for sharing such a wonderful sites. thank you very much.

    • WPBeginner Support

      Glad our content could help answer your questions :)

      Admin

  18. ATUL

    Sir I can create a one website that is number of user ask IT question.and ans any user.please tell me about requirement to popular website.

  19. Sandeep Pujare

    I did not find any option to post the answer as an admin. Are they have any?

    • Adamu Malte

      You can post your anser by visiting your Answer Questions Page link

  20. vikash

    Its not SEO friendly plugin even Youst Seo is not helpful to index in google of questions. i have convert my bbpress tp DWQA but i think its big mistake. its five days gone and there is 112 new questions but no any indexed in google but with bbpress any questions was indexed within 24-48 hrs. now any one can help me the way to convert DWQA to bbpress again? i am not a coder and its very difficult for me please any one help me :(:(

    • Margie

      Hi Vikash
      Did you receive any help in the end? I am trying to integrate BuddyPress with DW Questions & Answers but the recommended code

      include_once get_template_directory().’/buddypress/bp-custom.php’;

      is reporting errors.

  21. Asif Shaik

    Does this plugin support media upload

  22. Raju

    I had a website name. Now I want to create a page for the students where all question regarding maths, especially for engineering and other numerical questions well be in solved form.. can i use this plugin for numerical question or can i put HTML codes using this plugins? pls explain me . Thank you.

  23. Zain Javed

    Hi sir ,

    Can you please tell me some good free themes with this plugin to work .

    Thank You ,
    Zain

  24. dh danny

    How to design my own template for questions and answers…?

  25. Ajay Rathaur

    Hi,
    As I have checked on this plugin that user can login with the wordpress account only. is it possible i can modify it. so that people can login with their gmail, yahoo and other mail account also.

  26. syed Ismail Shah

    i want to create a website for the students where all question regarding maths, statistics and other numerical questions well be in solved form.. can i use this plugin for numercal question or can i put HTML codes using this plugins?

  27. designwall

    Hi everyone,
    Thanks WPBeginner for this awesome article about our DW Q&A plugin. We really appreciate it.
    @Everyone who is using our plugin and facing any issue or having questions, please feel free to raise it at our Support page: http://www.designwall.com/question/
    Our support staff will answer all the questions and issues.
    Thanks a lot
    Cheers,

  28. Harsha Sampath

    Toolbar not work. Please help me

  29. raunek

    Does this plugin affect website loading time?

  30. hiren patel

    hello, is there any way to show particular page related question and answer using wp-answers plugin.

    pls advice

    thanks.

  31. younes

    hello…my friend

    tanx a lot for this post…

    Vote option in Local working perfectly but in really host dont appear

    I disabled all plugin but vote dont appear

    please help me

  32. HUSSAIN

    please give me link how to set notification setting… with image

  33. Christian Trejo

    Awesome! I was going to spend $124 in the WP-Answers Pro plugin but I installed this and it is awesome. Any idea about how can I translate it? Thanks

  34. Ra Ek

    DWQA has DWQA in the “DWQA Questions” literal. Where can this be changed? I didn’t find it in the php code.

  35. Micheal Crols

    I love this plugin very much. Very awesome!

  36. Nicola

    Can I allow anonymous users to post a question without registering?

  37. marian

    A very good post! I just instaled dwqa plugin, and I came here from a google search ” what theme should I use with dwqa plugin” I read the all post, I read it how to instal from dw guide original page, but tour post is better then their post :)). Good Job. Checking my site http:// Just kiding, this isn’t a spam comment :). Is my feedback :)

  38. Sai

    Does Wordpress.com support downloading plugins and installing them? I saw that it doesn’t. Does that mean all the plugins that are mentioned are for wordpress.org?

  39. ahsan karim

    HELLO SIR THANKS WELL DONE

  40. Kjetil

    Thanks for this info
    What is the main benefits with this (or this kind of) plugin compared with a forum plugin (like Simplepress) – apart that Q&A obviously is simpler to setup?

    • WPBeginner Support

      It depends on how you use a forum plugin. If you want to use it to create Q&A site, then you would need to set it up in a way so that your users can quickly understand what you want them to do. Using a Q&A specific plugin takes the guess work out of the equation and provides a better user experience.

      Admin

  41. Charlie Sasser

    I have also been looking for something like this. Have not installed yet, but it wasn’t clear if Q&A could be “viewed” without a login. I would want everyone to view the information but have a login to ask a question or answer. Could this be integrated with a plugin that allows login via Facebook, Twitter, acccount, etc.?

  42. Arup Ghosh

    Great share I was looking something for free. There is a theme by wp-answer.com which allows importing of question and answers from Yahoo! answers.

  43. Andy

    how does this integrate with paid membership pro?

    • WPBeginner Support

      We tested it on default WordPress install. Check out plugin’s support forum to find out if it has any compatibility issue.

      Admin

  44. Anna Coffin

    This plug in is perfect for my site. I followed your directions but the pages are not appearing on my site? Any suggestions on what might be wrong?

    • WPBeginner Support

      You can also create your own pages. Simply create two new pages and then go to plugin settings and use one page as Ask question page and the other page for listing questions.

      Admin

  45. shamsher

    very informative..

  46. Mark H

    I had a Q&A page on our site for a while (plugin from WPMU) but it was constantly hit with spam. How does this plugin deal with it? Unchecking “anyone can register?” Then what?

    • WPBeginner Support

      According to plugin website they will soon release an update to the plugin which will enable captcha support.

      Admin

    • Jin Matsumoto

      Hi Mark,

      DesignWall Team has updated the plugin and support reCAPTCHA from Google.

  47. Erik

    It also appears you need to use a redirect plugin.. after you submit a question you get a 404 page.

    • Erik

      Ok, my mess up you need to leave permalinks at default.

    • Debra Dalgleish

      I was getting that 404 page too, and had to add forward slashes at the start of the permalinks.

      • Michael Crols

        @Debra Dalgleish
        Just go to Dashboard >> Q&A >> Settings -> Permalink -> Save Changes.

        You do not have to change anything just press “Save Changes”button at the bottom of the screen and the 404 issue will be resolved.

  48. Erik

    It would be nice if you could remove the questions category and tags option. Just have the title and question.

  49. Bob Dunn

    Wow, perfect timing, as I have been debating between a forum and this kind of a plugin for a new site. This helped make my decision :)

    After installing and testing, I did find a couple minor bugs with the theme I am using, but this plugin is in it’s first version I believe, and that is bound to happen. Overall it looks great. Also, going through the support questions it sounds as if they are working on some more specific features as people ask questions or find issues. I see a great future for this plugin… cheers!

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