As a blogger, we all look to have forums, groups and so on. To be frank we might have used forums, but posting an question there, isn’t that easy for an normal user and this really annoys. However we all love simple way of asking question and getting a reply for that. So how about setting a Question & Answer service on your blog? Well, WP-Answers is there to help to setup a Q&A service on your WordPress blog. WP-Answers is a wonderful plugin that doesn’t need you to be a WordPress expert, all you require is some basic knowledge to install the plugin.
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Before I could take in depth about the plugin, let me say about its features.
- Question & Answers System
- Points System
- Profile Pages
- Automatic Content from Yahoo Answers
- Auto Updating
- Customize Content to your Niche
- Full Advertising Management
- 6 Optimised themes Included
Here we get in the detailed features offered by Wp-Answers
Question & Answer System
As I said initially Wp-Answers transforms your WordPress blog into an answering service. So who all can answer? To answer or raise questions, the users requires to create an account within your blog. Once they register an account, they will be provided with a profile page, where they can add their info (including their blog or website address) and upload an avatar to their profile.
Points System
Another great concept within the plugin is the point system. Using points system, users gain points when they ask question and also they receive points if answers any question. So this system obviously entertains the users to make more conversation with the service and the most active users will be included in the Top User category.
The best part, we have the full control to change the points give per answered question or the answer.
Profile Pages
Profile pages gives a short information about the registered users including their interest, website URL (dofollow link). So indirectly active users gain a good reputation for their blog.
Automatic Content from Yahoo Answers
Using this feature, we can import content right from Yahoo answers with your Yahoo Answers API. With the imported question, users can reply answers to it. Cool isn’t it?
Auto Posting Campaign
The auto posting relates to the Yahoo Answers API, where using this feature, we can set search term, category and the Yahoo Answers region (US, UK and Canada) to fetch and publish the question on your blog. You can even decide the how often your content needs to be pulled from Yahoo Answers.
Advertising Management
Advertisement is quite essential for every blogger to manage the expenses incurred in running the blog. Wp-Answers offers good advertising options such as Contextual ads and 125×125 ad banners. The implementation of ads is very simple and all it requires your ad code to be inserted in the option menu.
6 Themes Included
Buy purchasing this plugin, you get six free optimized theme within the package. All those 6 themes are full widgedized to accommodate appropriate widgets that comes with the plugin. The developers has also announced to release more themes for the plugin in the future. So you won’t require to create a template to use this plugin.
So will all these feature, Wp-Answers looks to be the great plugin to convert your WordPress blog into a question & answer website. Believe it all not, you can get all these features at a price tag of $89 (Single License) $179 (Multi-Site License). All I can say, the plugin really worth the money you pay. Finally after my personal experience I loved this plugin and found it very useful for using it as an alternative to forums. You can check out Ask Bloggermint powered by Wp-Answers here.
