Description
Askora Community Q&A is a powerful, modern Q&A plugin for WordPress. It enables your community to ask questions, browse answers, reply with rich interactions, and discover helpful content — all through a beautiful AJAX-powered frontend.
Free Features:
- Custom post type for questions with categories and tags
- Frontend question submission form (shortcode)
- Phone number registration and login (no email required)
- AJAX-powered answers/replies using the WordPress comment system
- AJAX search with live results
- AJAX load more and pagination
- Question view counter
- Basic voting/upvote system for questions and answers
- Best answer marking by question author or admin
- Admin/Author/Moderator/Member/Guest role badges
- Responsive, modern card-based UI
- Admin settings page with tabs
- Custom admin columns (Views, Replies, Votes)
- Translation-ready with
.potfile - Developer hooks and filters
- Future Pro architecture (feature gates, SMS stubs, interfaces)
- WordPress.org compliant — no external CDN, no tracking
Available Shortcodes:
[askora_submit_form]— Question submission form[askora_questions]— Question list with AJAX pagination[askora_search]— AJAX live search[askora_login]— Phone login form[askora_register]— Phone registration form[askora_auth]— Combined login/register form[askora_popular_questions]— Most upvoted questions[askora_unanswered_questions]— Questions with no answers
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/askora-community-qa/, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the Plugins screen in WordPress.
- Go to Askora Settings to configure the plugin.
- Create pages and add shortcodes as needed.
- Flush permalinks: go to Settings Permalinks and click Save Changes.
FAQ
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Do users need an email to register?
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No. Askora Community Q&A supports phone number registration and login without requiring an email address. An email is optional.
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Can guests ask questions?
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By default, users must be logged in to ask a question. You can configure reply permissions in the settings.
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How do I show questions on a page?
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Add the
[askora_questions]shortcode to any page or post. -
Can I override templates in my theme?
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Yes. Create a folder
askora-community-qa/in your active theme and copy any template file fromFrontend/Inc/Templates/into it. The plugin will load your theme version automatically. -
Is it translation-ready?
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Yes. All strings use the
askora-community-qatext domain and a.potfile is included in thelanguages/folder.
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Contributors & Developers
“Askora Community Q&A” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Question custom post type with categories and tags.
- Frontend shortcodes for questions, answers, search, auth.
- Phone number registration and login.
- AJAX question/answer submission.
- AJAX search, load more, filtering.
- View counter, voting, best answer.
- Role badges (Admin, Author, Moderator, Member, Guest).
- Responsive modern UI.
- Admin settings with tabs.
- Full developer hooks and filters.