AnsPress – Question and answer

Description

Zen Projects and Rahul have agreed to team up to bring substantial resources into the development of AnsPress and its related themes and extensions, read the full announcement here: https://anspress.net/blog/anspress-update-annoucement/

AnsPress is an open source, developer friendly, question and answer plugin for WordPress. AnsPress adds a full question and answer system to your existing WordPress site. It can be used to create a Q&A network similar to StackOverflow and Quora, or be a single page on existing site. The plugin supports multiple languages, shortcodes, reCAPTCHA, email and push notifications, and more.

AnsPress is not just limited to questions and answers. It can be used in many different ways, like a bug tracker, an internal Q&A board, support ticket forum, FAQ, and more. Anspress is trusted and used by many popular companies and sites at scale.

Performance and Optimizations:

In our latest release, we’ve made big improvements to performance and have tested the plugin in many different server environments. It has run smoothly on every type of server with minimal impact on load times. AnsPress (including all of its functionalities) is very fast compared to other Q&A plugins. In the latest release we have made major improvements to reduce MySQL queries and to increase the page load speed for all page templates within the plugin.

Developer Friendly:

AnsPress is built with developers in mind and can easily be extended to fit your needs. All parts of the template layouts can be overridden. Our source code follows WP coding standards and is properly commented. We are working on a documentation site which will be available soon.

Contributors:

This plugin wouldn’t be possible without the huge amount of contributions we have received. Check our contributors at https://anspress.net/contributors/

Support and Demo:

We provide support on our site: https://anspress.net/questions
Our support section uses the actual version of AnsPress, so you can check out the support site if you want to see full working version.
You can also take the demo site for a test drive at https://anspress.net/demo/

AnsPress Key Features:

• Submit / Filter / Order / Edit / Delete Question
• Answer / Comment
• Vote and Select Best Answer
• Notification Emails and Web Push Notifications
• 10+ languages supported
• Captcha supported
• Shortcodes available
• Private/Public for Question and Answer
• Ability to Follow Questions / Answers
• Featured (Sticky) Question
• Closed questions
• Flag/report questions and answers to moderator
• Basic user profile
• BuddyPress integration
• More to come…

Free Add-ons:

• Reputations
• Tags
• Categories
• Bad words filter
• Email notifications
• reCaptcha
• Dynamic text avatar

AnsPress is frequently updated and more features are added based on feedback from our users. This means you are welcome to give us feedback and suggestions as to what you would like to see or need in the plugin. Visit our Github project https://github.com/anspress/anspress or visit our community https://anspress.net/questions/ to get updates and leave feedback.

Page Shortcodes

Use this shortcode in the base page of AnsPress to work properly
[anspress]

Screenshots

Installation

Read the full documentation here https://anspress.net/resources/

FAQ

Read the full FAQ here https://anspress.net/resources/faq/

Reviews

Lost my patience with this plugin

sorenjensen September 7, 2024

This plugin is dead in the water I recommend find another solution before wasting your time and money trying to make it in to a useful feature for your website.The look out of the box is as presentable as a forum from 1998. There are no way to make it look good and useful unless you spend a fair amount of development.No improvements has been made for years. Still not a single Gutenberg widget exist, the few short codes existing are not useful in any way. The forum has plenty of promises for features that has never been made.This plugin seems to be made and provided for free so that the developer can earn money on developing all the missing features that people need to make a useful Q&A for a site in 2024, “developer friendly” = for the developer who made the plugin .I would prefer a premium plugin that is useful than a free plugin that is missing simple and vital functionality to implement and design it for your needs.

Easy to use and customize

davidjosue11 September 19, 2023

This Q&A plugin is very easy to setup and start using quickly. I like that it has a simple design that’s fast and optimized. The developer tools make it really easy to customize the look and feel to match my site. Overall a great plugin!

Schema.org Markup advertised by the plugin does not exist

zdmdesigns July 20, 2023

I would like to make clear that this is a review, not a support request. The below reason is why I am rating this plugin with 1-star. If something is advertised in a plugin, it needs to actually exist. Installed this plugin ONLY because it claims?“SEO Friendly Questions and answers are search engine optimized, with schema.org markup.” However, it does not. The schema markup does not exist.?I tried validating the QA Pages through Schema.org and nothing appears. Same result in Google Rich Results Test.

Great questions answers plugin

incometube March 29, 2023

Great plugin. No bloated extras and works seamlessly with Buddypress and activity stream. Integrates into existing theme. Perfect!

Great Plugin

texo August 25, 2022

Fast plugin, easy to customise, with plenty of features. Love it.

Very nice plugins

Luka2013 January 14, 2022

Very nice plugins but much work is still needed.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

4.4.3

Changelog can be found at https://github.com/anspress/anspress/releases/tag/4.4.3

4.4.2

Changelog can be found at https://github.com/anspress/anspress/releases/tag/4.4.2

4.4.1

Changelog can be found at https://github.com/anspress/anspress/releases/tag/4.4.1

4.4.0

Changelog can be found at https://github.com/anspress/anspress/releases/tag/4.4.0