Ben Huson

<p>This plugin is designed to be a simple solid base for managing an FAQ section on your web site.</p>
<p>It consists of:</p>
<ul>
<li>A simple ‘faqz’ post type</li>
<li>[faqz /] shortcode</li>
<li>FAQ search widget</li>
<li>FAQ search form template tag</li>
</ul>


FAQz

Simple management of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

CreativeMindsSolutions

<p><a href="https://www.cminds.com/cm-answer-store-page-content/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Plugin Page</a> | <a href="https://www.videolessonsplugin.com/video-lesson/lesson/questions-answers-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Videos</a>  | <a href="https://www.answersplugin.com/cm-answers-demo-main-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a> | <a href="https://creativeminds.helpscoutdocs.com/category/987-answers-cma" rel="nofollow ugc">User Guide</a> | <a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/?showfilter=No&tags=AnswerAddOn" rel="nofollow ugc">Add-ons</a></p>
<p><strong>CM Answers is a robust WordPress question and answer plugin that transforms your website into an interactive Q&A forum. Whether you need a support forum, a community discussion board, or a knowledge-sharing hub, this discussion forum plugin provides the tools to engage users, organize content, and grow your audience.</strong></p>
<p>⭐ <em>The 2025 release adds 20+ new features, AI integrations (ChatGPT & Gemini), and over 50 customizable front-end labels—making it easier than ever to tailor your forum to your community.</em></p>
<p>With multilingual support, voting, moderation, notifications, AJAX, and shortcodes, this plugin is a complete solution for creating your own StackOverflow-style WordPress forum or Quora-style discussion platform.</p>
<h3>WordPress Forum Plugin Features for Community Engagement</h3>
<h3>Create SEO-Friendly Discussion Forums with Our Discussion Forum Plugin</h3>
<p>Turn your site into a powerful discussion forum plugin for WordPress that boosts visibility and builds authority. Each question and answer generates indexable content, helping you rank for valuable long-tail queries like “WordPress customer support forum” or “WordPress community engagement plugin.”</p>
<h3>Improve User Engagement with Q&A Interactions</h3>
<p>Keep visitors active with features like voting, notifications, gravatar integration, and user dashboards. Encourage peer-to-peer help, reduce support load, and build trust as users see questions resolved in real time.</p>
<h3>WordPress Support Forum with Moderation Tools</h3>
<p>Admins have complete control: set roles and permissions, review posts in a moderation queue, allow or block anonymous posting, and receive notifications for all activity.</p>
<h3>WordPress Community Forum with Monetization</h3>
<p>Charge for asking questions with the WordPress paid support plugin add-on, reward participation with micropayments, or even use adsense integration to monetize your discussion forum plugin. Turn your Q&A forum into a revenue-generating platform.</p>
<h3>WordPress Q&A Plugin Core Functionality</h3>
<h3>Question Moderation and Notification</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Answers Plugin Introduction Video</h3>
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<h3>WordPress Discussion Forum Plugin Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress Support Forum Plugin</strong> – Centralize troubleshooting Q&A and reduce support tickets</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Customer Support Forum</strong> – Create a searchable knowledge base for customer self-service</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Community Forum Plugin</strong> – Let members ask, answer, and vote on community discussions</li>
<li><strong>Discussion Forum Plugin for Engagement</strong> – Build an interactive discussion forum plugin that keeps users engaged and coming back</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Student Forum Plugin</strong> – Manage classroom Q&A and student interactions online</li>
<li><strong>StackOverflow Style WordPress Plugin</strong> – Build technical communities with voting and reputation</li>
<li><strong>Quora Style WordPress Plugin</strong> – Create general interest discussion platforms</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Paid Support Plugin</strong> – Monetize premium support access with payment integration</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Anonymous Posting Plugin</strong> – Support anonymous posting with additional add-on</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Q&A Plugin Basic Features</h3>
<h3>Core Functionality</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create Q&A forums where users ask and answer questions</li>
<li>WordPress voting plugin system to highlight the best answers</li>
<li>Track views, answers count, and ratings</li>
<li>Sort questions by popularity, date, or activity</li>
<li>Includes a views count</li>
<li>Includes an answers count</li>
<li>Includes a rating count</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚙️ WordPress Moderation Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Admin can define who can ask questions based on user role</li>
<li>Administrators can moderate questions and answers and can receive email notifications</li>
<li>Supports email notifications when posting new questions and answers</li>
<li>Forum question sorting options</li>
<li>Shows and sorts all answers in ascending or descending order</li>
</ul>
<h3>🎨 WordPress AJAX Forum Plugin User Experience</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supports AJAX for seamless and dynamic forum interactions</li>
<li>Shows a login form for guest users</li>
<li>Ability to display a Gravatar near the user’s name and in the user’s profile</li>
<li>Template can be easily customized according to users requirements</li>
<li>Support editing or translating front-end labels</li>
<li>Includes a user-friendly Setup Wizard for quick and easy plugin configuration</li>
<li>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</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Q&A Plugin Pro Features</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.cminds.com/cm-answer-store-page-content/#features" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version Detailed Features List</a> | <a href="https://www.answersplugin.com/cm-answers-demo-main-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo Site</a></p>
<h3>🔒 WordPress Anonymous Posting Plugin Security & Privacy</h3>
<ul>
<li>Anonymous Posting – Support anonymous non logged-in user posting when used with an add-on</li>
<li>WordPress Private Questions Plugin – Mark answer as private so only question author can see it</li>
<li>Private Question – Send questions privately to question author</li>
<li>Spam Report – User can report spam questions or answers</li>
</ul>
<h3>📊 WordPress User Profile Questions Answers Engagement</h3>
<ul>
<li>User Dashboard – Adds “My Questions” and “My Answers” dashboards to the user profile page by using Shortcodes: cma-my-questions and cma-my-answers <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image3.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a></li>
<li>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. <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image5.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a></li>
<li>User Badges – Assign badges to all users and unique badges to specific users</li>
<li>Sticky Questions – Supports sticky questions with an administrator defined background color</li>
</ul>
<h3>🛠️ WordPress Shortcode Forum Plugin Advanced Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multiple Attachments – Multiple attachments in questions and answers</li>
<li>Comments – Add comments to question or answers</li>
<li>Shortcodes – Generates a Questions List by using a Shortcode: cma-questions with additional parameters. For example, limit=10 author=123 sort=hottest</li>
<li>Widgets – The question answer plugin allows for widget integration that can sort and display hottest questions, most viewed, most recent answers and more. <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image4.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a></li>
<li>Categories – Ability to add categories and display them using a shortcode</li>
<li>Two Levels Category Navigation – Support two level category navigation</li>
<li>Tags – In this question and answer plugin tags are fully supported. Administrators can control the appearance of tags with an available Tags widget</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔗 WordPress Multilingual Q&A Plugin Integrations</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mobile Responsive – Adjusted design and UX for mobile devices</li>
<li>BuddyPress – Stronger Integration with BuddyPress</li>
<li>Social Media Registration Integration – Q and A plugin integrates with Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/image1.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a>, <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image2.png" rel="nofollow ugc">See another image</a></li>
<li>Integration with Twitter – Users can register and post using existing Twitter account</li>
<li>Ultimate Member Integration – Supports adding a custom CMA tab for Ultimate Member user profile</li>
<li>CM Expert Directory Integration – Associate user profiles to expert profiles from CM Expert Directory and synchronize categories</li>
<li>GamiPress Integration – Allows to reward users for different actions on your forum</li>
<li>WordPress Plugin with Micropayments Support – Grant or Charge virtual currency based on use-case</li>
<li>Advertisements – Integration with Ad-Sense or other Ads networks</li>
<li>Code Snippets in Posts – Support for code snippets and custom background color</li>
<li>Homepage – Supports options to define CM Answers as the Site or Blog homepage</li>
<li>Permalink – Customizable CM Answers permalink</li>
<li>Disclaimer – Added Disclaimer support for first time users</li>
<li>Social Share – Includes a social share widget in the question page</li>
<li>Reassign Content – Use the Q and A plugin to reassign all forum content (questions, answers and comments) from one user to another one</li>
<li>Multisite – Supports multisite</li>
<li>Attachment – Accepts file attachments when posting a question. Limits for file types and sizes</li>
<li>View Count Control – Controls how a view count is tabulated (by view or by session)</li>
<li>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. <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image8.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a></li>
<li>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. <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image6.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a></li>
<li>Moderation – Administrators can define a list of users who are exempt and can post without any moderation. <a href="http://www.cminds.com/wp-content/uploads/edd/cm-answers-image7.png" rel="nofollow ugc">View Image</a></li>
<li>Edit Questions and Answers – Users can edit their questions and answers after submission</li>
<li>Access Control – Admin can define who can ask questions and who can answer based on user role via the Q and A plugin settings</li>
<li>Gratitude Message – Does not include our Gratitude Message in the footer</li>
</ul>
<h3>🤖 WordPress Plugin with ChatGPT Answers AI Integration</h3>
<ul>
<li>ChatGPT Integration – Supports posting automatically generated answers in specified categories</li>
<li>Gemini support to automatically answer questions on selected categories</li>
<li>support content filtering and monitoring using AI</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Knowledge Base Forum Add-ons</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/micropayments/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM MicroPayments</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/cm-answer-anonymous-user-posting-cm-plugins-store/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers Anonymous User Posting</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/cm-answers-peepso-social-network-integration-addon-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">PeepSo Add-on for CM Answers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/ask-the-expert-wordpress-plugin-by-creativeminds/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Ask the Expert</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/cm-answers-idea-stimulator-ideations-addon/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers Idea Stimulator</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/purchase-cm-answers-widgets-add-on-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers Widgets</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/cm-answers-import-and-export-add-on-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers Import and Export</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/answers-anspress-import-addon-for-wordpress-by-creativeminds/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers AnsPress Import</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cminds.com/wordpress-plugins-library/cm-answers-payment-support-addon-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">CM Answers Payments</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Why Choose CM Answers as Your Discussion Forum Plugin</h3>
<p>🏆 <strong>Flexible Setup</strong>: Choose from free, moderated, anonymous, or paid forums to match your community needs with this versatile discussion forum plugin</p>
<p>🏆 <strong>SEO-First Approach</strong>: Generate indexable Q&A content that drives organic traffic and builds domain authority</p>
<p>🏆 <strong>Extensible Platform</strong>: Access dozens of add-ons and integrations for e-commerce, membership, and community features</p>
<p>🏆 <strong>Future-Ready Technology</strong>: Optional AI answers with ChatGPT/Gemini integration for automated responses</p>
<p>🏆 <strong>Proven Community Builder</strong>: Trusted by thousands of WordPress sites to create engaging discussion boards and support forums with this reliable discussion forum plugin</p>
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<ul>
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