SEO-first community Q&A. Every question gets its own URL, QAPage JSON-LD schema, Open Graph tags, and Speakable markup - out of the box.

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Awesome FAQ  – Modern Accordion, Tabs,Responsive & Super Fast FAQ Builder.

Create responsive FAQ sections, toggle content, and multiple accordion-style question groups effortlessly on your WordPress site.

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<p>wAnswers turns your WordPress site into a structured community Q&A platform. Every question is a WordPress post with its own canonical URL, server-rendered HTML, and complete QAPage JSON-LD schema – the exact format Google uses to surface Q&A content in rich snippets, People Also Ask boxes, and AI Overviews.</p>
<p>No JavaScript rendering. No iframe embeds. No third-party dependencies. No jQuery.</p>
<p><strong>Live demo:</strong> https://wbuild.dev/questions/</p>
<h4>Why wAnswers Is Different: SEO & GEO First</h4>
<p>Most Q&A plugins render everything via a single shortcode page – one URL, no per-question structured data, effectively invisible to crawlers. wAnswers works the opposite way.</p>
<p>Every question gets its own permanent URL (<code>/questions/my-question/</code>). Every page ships with the structured data Google and AI search engines need to surface your content in search results, rich snippets, and AI citations.</p>
<h4>GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)</h4>
<p>AI search engines like Perplexity, ChatGPT Browse, and Google AI Overviews favour content with clear Q&A structure, explicit authorship, date signals, topic tagging, and Speakable content markers. wAnswers outputs all of these automatically on every question page.</p>
<h4>Core Q&A Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Ask questions with a title and optional body text</li>
<li>Categorise questions by topic (custom taxonomy with live AJAX filter)</li>
<li>Answer questions inline with no page reload</li>
<li>Accept an answer (question author or admin only)</li>
<li>Threaded replies on answers – one level deep</li>
<li>Sort questions: Newest, Top Voted, Most Answered, Unanswered</li>
<li>Filter by topic with instant AJAX</li>
<li>Live search within the feed</li>
<li>Load-more pagination – no full page reloads</li>
<li>Edit questions and answers within a 1-hour window</li>
<li>Delete your own questions and answers</li>
</ul>
<h4>Voting & Scoring</h4>
<ul>
<li>Upvote and downvote questions and answers</li>
<li>Cannot vote on your own posts</li>
<li>Lifetime vote tracking that persists across leaderboard resets</li>
<li>Automatic backfill for users who existed before vote tracking was added</li>
</ul>
<h4>Leaderboard</h4>
<ul>
<li>Four tabs: Top Score, Most Questions, Most Answers, Most Accepted</li>
<li>Five position options: none, above feed, below feed, sidebar left, sidebar right</li>
<li>Optional sticky sidebar</li>
<li>Configurable max users shown (3 to 50)</li>
<li>Transient-cached and busted on every vote, answer, and reset</li>
</ul>
<h4>User Profiles</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unique profile URLs at /questions/author/username/</li>
<li>Gravatar support with letter-initial fallback</li>
<li>Lifetime score, coloured upvote and downvote counts</li>
<li>10 badges across 4 tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond</li>
<li>SVG 12-month activity chart</li>
<li>Recent questions and answers list</li>
<li>Topic badge links navigate to the filtered tag archive</li>
</ul>
<h4>Email Notifications & Weekly Digest</h4>
<ul>
<li>Notifies question author when a new answer is posted</li>
<li>Notifies answer author when a reply is posted</li>
<li>Weekly digest email via WP-Cron on a configurable day</li>
<li>Token-based one-click unsubscribe – no login required</li>
<li>Admin button to send digest immediately for testing</li>
<li>Configurable maximum recipients per send</li>
</ul>
<h4>Settings & Customisation</h4>
<ul>
<li>Homepage Mode – serve Q&A at your site root with automatic 301 redirect from /questions/</li>
<li>Admin-editable heading, subtitle, SEO title, and meta description for the archive page</li>
<li>Questions per page, answers per page, max answers per question page</li>
<li>Minimum and maximum content length validation</li>
<li>Rate limiting per user for questions, answers, and votes</li>
<li>Custom CSS field – override plugin styles without editing files</li>
<li>Question moderation mode – hold new questions for admin approval</li>
<li>Noindex shortcode pages to prevent duplicate content with the CPT archive</li>
<li>Footer credit toggle – shown by default, completely optional and freely removable</li>
<li>Full compatibility with Yoast SEO and RankMath</li>
</ul>
<h4>SEO & GEO Schema</h4>
<ul>
<li>QAPage JSON-LD on every single question page</li>
<li>Question and Answer entities with author, dates, and vote counts</li>
<li>acceptedAnswer marked in schema when set</li>
<li>BreadcrumbList on single, archive, and taxonomy pages</li>
<li>CollectionPage schema on archive and topic pages</li>
<li>Organization schema sitewide for brand entity recognition</li>
<li>WebSite and SearchAction for Google Sitelinks Searchbox eligibility</li>
<li>Speakable specification on question pages – AI and voice citation signal</li>
<li>Open Graph and Twitter Card meta on every question page</li>
<li>Explicit canonical link on every page type</li>
<li>dateModified updated on every edit, answer, and reply</li>
<li>Microdata itemscope and itemprop on question cards in the feed</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>[wanswers_qa] – Embed the full Q&A feed on any page.</p>
<p>[wanswers_leaderboard] – Embed a standalone leaderboard on any page.</p>
<p>[wanswers_leaderboard limit=”5″] – Show top 5 users per tab (default is 10).</p>
<h4>No External Dependencies</h4>
<p>The plugin JavaScript is vanilla JS with no jQuery requirement. Styles are self-contained with no external CDN requests. Everything runs on your server.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<h4>Gravatar</h4>
<p>This plugin uses the Gravatar service to display user profile images on member profile pages. When a user visits a member profile page, the plugin requests an avatar image from Gravatar based on the member’s email address (hashed with MD5).</p>
<p>Data sent: an MD5 hash of the user’s email address, included in the image URL.<br />
When: each time a member profile page is loaded.<br />
Service provider: Automattic Inc.<br />
Terms of Service: https://automattic.com/tos/<br />
Privacy Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/</p>


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