CM Answers – Powerful WordPress Forum Plugin

Description

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CM Answers is a robust question and answer plugin for WordPress, seamlessly integrating a comprehensive Q&A system into your website.

Whether you’re building a dedicated Q&A network akin to StackOverflow or Quora, or simply enhancing an existing page, CM Answers offers extensive features.

Part of this Question Answers Plugin features include multilingual support, voting, moderation, notifications, access control, customizable shortcodes, reCAPTCHA integration

Question Answer Plugin Premium Editions

The answers plugin premium version includes
ChatGPT support, Payment support, Integration with WooComemrce and Easy Digital Downlaods and support for non logged in users to post questions and answers

Question Moderation and Notification

As an administrator, you can moderate questions and answers and receive email notifications. In addition, users can follow specific topics and receive notifications whenever new answers are posted.

Answers Plugin Introduction Video

Use-Cases

• Forum Plugin – 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 threads that you moderate.
• Community – Adds a question answer area to your WordPress site that allows your members to start their own conversations and ask questions.
• Question Answer – 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 WordPress site.
• Paid Support – Charge users for posting questions and answers.
• Anonymous Posting – Support anonymous posting with aditional addon.

Plugin Basic Features

• Includes a views count.
• Includes an answers count.
• Administrators can moderate questions and answers and can receive email notifications.
• Users can receive notifications when answering a question is pending.
• Forum sorting options in the question 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 Plugin 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 an addon.
• Private Answers – Mark answer as private so only question author can see it.
• Private Question – Send questions privately to question author.
• Advertisements – Integration with Ad-Sense or other Ads networks.
• Comments – GAdd comments to question or answers.
• MicroPayments – Grant or Charge virtual currency based on use-case.
• ChatGPT Integration – Supports posting automatically generated answers in specified categories.
• 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 via the Q and A plugin settings.
• Integration with Twitter – Users can register and post using existing Twitter account.
• Edit Questions and Answers – Users can edit their questions and answers 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 – Q and A plugin ntegrates with Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. View Image, See another image
• Shortcodes – Generates a Questions List by using a Shortcode: cma-questions with additional parameters. For example, limit=10 author=123 sort=hottest
• 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
• Widgets – The question answer plugin allows for 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 via the Questions and Answers plugin settings. View Image
• Moderation- Administrators can define a list of users who are exempt and can post without any 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.
• Attachment – Accepts file attachments when posting a question. Limits for file types and sizes.
• Localization Support – Frontend (user side) is localized.
• View Count Control – Controls how a view count is tabulated (by view or by session).
• Public User Profile – Automatically generates a public profile page containing all the questions and answers a user has posted, with a link to their social media profile. View Image
• Gratitude Message – Does not include our Gratitude Message in the footer.
• Tags – In this question and answer plugin tags are fully supported. Administrators can control the appearance of tags with an available Tags widget.
• Sticky Questions – Supports sticky questions with an administrator defined background color.
• Code Snippets in Posts – Support for code snippets and custom background color.
• Homepage – Supports options to define CM Answers as the Site or Blog homepage
• Permalink – Customizable CM Answers permalink.
• Disclaimer – Added Disclaimer support for first time users.
• Social Share – Includes a social share widget in the question page.
• User Badges – Assign badges to all users and unique badges to specific users.
• Reassign Content – Use the Q and A plugin to reassign all forum content (questions, answers and comments) from one user to another one.
• Ultimate Member Integration – Supports adding a custom CMA tab for Ultimate Member user profile.
• CM Expert Directory Integration – Associate user profiles to expert profiles from CM Expert Directory and synchronize categories
• GamiPress Integration – Allows to reward users for different actions on your forum.
• ChatGPT support to automatically answer questions on selected categories

Addons and 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

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Installation

Detailed User Guide

1. Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Manage your CM Answers plugin from Left Side Admin Dashboard

Note: You must have a call to wp_head() in your template in order for the JS plugin files to work properly. If your theme does not support this you will need to link them files manually in your theme (not recommended).

FAQ

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Detailed User Guide

How can I customize the look and feel of the Answers plugin?

In your template you can custom create a directory called “CMA”. Inside this directory you can place a structure that is similar to the one inside “cm-answers/views/frontend/”. If the file is properly able to be found in your template’s directory, then it will have priority over the default. Otherwise, the default file from our plugin directory will be used.

Reviews

How do I give zero stars?

jrichmon August 11, 2021 1 reply

When I purchased, I missed the fact that many have given this product a 1 star review. I had a technical issue with the plugin that they were not able to fix. I will say that they tried, and I tried to make it work then all went quiet until I asked for a refund. Suddenly, they became interested again. When I told them I’d moved on, they didn’t care and persisted with trying to fix. Ultimately, they refused to issue a refund. BEWARE. They should revise their refund policy to state they reserve the right to take as long as we want to find a resolution. Don’t go near these guys. I’ve disputed with my bank which I said I’d do. They still didn’t care and accused me of making threats. It was no threat. I asked if they really want6ed go that route. Apparently, yes. They are the first company I’ve run across who would not honor a refund request.

Don’t waste your time with the PRO version

fornaij July 14, 2020

My reasons: Support: The support agents ask you to purchase development hours on virtually any issue you ask about (small or big). Updates: The updates rarely provides new features Design: The overall feel and design of the backend is better than the frontend, The single question page design looks ancient, Questions and answers in the page aren’t easily distinguishable. Responsive: The index page(questions list page) design on mobile, seems like just plain text and lines, excluding tags Personally, i’ll not recommend.

Sophisticated plugin with fantastic support

pparnham December 1, 2017

It is easy to get cynical about customer support. So when we approached CM about the possibility of fixing a rival product to CM Answers that had started to conflict with CM Glossary Pro + you can imagine we didn’t expect much of a response. But CM not only fixed the conflict, they also gave us the tools to make some alterations to CM Answers so that we are now in a position to compare an enhanced CMA with its fully operational competitor. I, for one, am now sold on the idea that CM Answers is the most sophisticated option out there with a support team that truly goes the extra mile. Thank you.

The plugin is great ! Their support is makes it even better

jaswanthjesse January 5, 2017

There support is top notch and plugins works brilliantly ??

Poor integration with other products and poor documentation

catonezillion December 7, 2016

This plugin is a good idea but the execution needs a lot of work, particularly with the Ask the Expert addon. There is hardly any documentation available, but at least if you ask a question the service team responds quickly. Too many features of the plugin can’t be changed by the admin. The profile created for users can’t be changed, and there are just two fields. There is very poor integration with their other plugin cm registration, with duplicate login and registration forms and no ability for the admin to choose among them. Also poor integration with Peepso, and this addon was just released. Multiple issues with the Expert addon, but this is a premium product so I don’t know if I’m allowed to mention those here, but there is nowhere on their website to review the premium versions.

useless

rashid0716 October 12, 2016

useless

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.2.6

Release Date: 19 Nov 2024
* Fixed security (medium) issue

3.2.5

Release Date: 9 Oct 2024

• Fixed security issues

3.2.4

Release Date: 18 May 2024
* Fixed security issues

3.2.3

Release Date: 21 December 2023
* Update package info

3.2.2

Release Date: 17th Mar 2023
* Update package info

3.2.1

• Fixed 404 problems after permalink change automatically

3.2.0

• Fixed vulnerability

3.1.9

• Fixed warnings for PHP 8

3.1.8

Release Date: 9th Nov 2022
* Update support links

3.1.7

Release Date: 6th Sep 2022
* Security fix

3.1.6

Release Date: 25th Aug 2022
* Changes to documentation and changelog links

3.1.3

Release Date: 12th May 2022
* Fixed bugs

3.1.0

Release Date: 8th July 2020
* Checked compatibility with PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.4.2
* Added compatibility questions post types with Guttenberg

3.0.1

Release Date:8th May 2019
* Added XSS filtering function on backlink parameter

2.11.0

Release Date: 24th May 2018
* Fix for the GDPR support

Earlier versions

For the changelog of earlier versions, please refer to the changelog on cminds.com