Questions & Answers Plugin

Unlimited Questions

Users can create Unlimited Questions, Submit Answers, Search and Filter, Edit or Delete questions by their Categories and Tags on your website.
These Questions can be if two types:

• Textual Descriptive Type
• Poll Type

Questions can be filtered as:

• Recently Created Questions
• Unanswered
• Answered
• Open Questions
• Answered Lately
• Closed Questions
• Followed Questions
• Most Liked Questions
• Featured Questions
• Sponsored Questions
• Hot Questions

Unlimited Answers with Best Answer Option

User can post various Answers to numerous questions posted on your website. Any visitor can post answers to these questions which are then voted on by the community until a “correct” answer is not received.

Also the Asker has the option to choose an answer as the best one.
Answers can be filtered as:

• Most Answered
• Best Answer
• Favourite
• Liked
• Featured
• Followed

Voting on Questions & Answers

• Other feature of this Plugin which make it more useful and active is Voting On Questions and Answers.
• You can allow your users to submit their votes for the Questions and their Answers on your website.
• Users are also allowed to change their vote for the Answer/Answers which they have submitted earlier.

Textual Descriptive Type Question

If you want to ask question with the help of simple textual description, then you can use two type of Text Editors in this case:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• Simple Text area

It will provide users all the tools they want for writing description for any Question.

Poll Type Question

• Also you can allow your users to Ask Question with the help of ‘Polls’ on your website.
• This setting can be enabled from the question Creation Settings located in the Admin Panel.
• You can also let your users to choose multiple options while creating Poll Type Question on your Website.

Favourite Questions

Users can be allowed to mark Questions on your website as their Favourites.

By marking any Question as favourite they will get all the updates related to that question when anyone submit answer for it or perform any other action.

Intelligent ‘New’ Label

• Questions can be chosen to be shown as New on your website and can be highlighted in various widgets with ‘New’ highlighting label and can also be shown as Popularity criteria.
• This label will be placed intelligently and can be automatically set to be removed after admin configured days from their creation date.
• When users want to browse the questions at your website, then this Label will get displayed to them with the question.

Location for Questions

• With this Plugin you are allowed to enable and enter Location for the Questions your users have created on your website.
• You can easily enable it from Global Settings in Admin Panel of this Plugin.
• Unit for proximity search in ‘Miles’ or ‘Kilometers’ for Location of the questions can also be choose for this plugin.

Tags

• Your users are allowed to add Tags to your questions for better filtering while creating questions.
• This setting can be enabled from Global Settings in Admin Panel.
• We have also provided the Tags Widget for this plugin which you can place at any page and after clicking on the tags in it, your users get redirected to the Tags Page automatically.

Categories

Configurable URL

• URLs can be configured from the Admin Panel for the Questions your users have created.
• They are configured on the basis of Singular or Plural Text in URL instead of “Question” or “Questions” text which you want to enter for the Questions in this plugin.
• These URLs will get displayed to the users at the time of searching for the questions.

Configure “Question” Text

• From this setting you can enter the text which you want to show in place of “Question” or “Questions” at various places in this plugin like activity feeds, search form, Navigation Menu etc.
• These text are also configured on the basis of Singular or Plural Text.

Advanced Search

This plugin provides you the Advanced searching option for the Questions your users have created on your website. You can search them by placing the “Question Browse Search” Widget at any page where you want. You can do searching based on the following fields:

• Keyword
• Browse By
• View Criteria
• Category
• Date Rage
• Location(in Miles or Kilometers)

Notifications and Email System

Seamless Integration with SocialEngine’s Notification and Emails system and for all important actions members on your website will get Notifications & Emails. In Questions & Answers Plugin, Mails and Notification will send to the users for the following updates on questions:

• When a new Question is created
• Any Question gets approved.
• When someone answered a Question.
• When any answer marked as Best.
• When someone follow your Question.
• When an answer is voted.
• New answer on the question you follow and so on……