Title: [Plugin: Q&A] it's just a mess
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Q&A] it's just a mess

 *  [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/)
 * I’ve installed, activated, copied the php files to my theme folder and what do
   I get ?
    Just a complete unworkable mess. It’s knocked my widgets out of line
   and doesn’t fit in the page.
 * My theme is not complicated, but I tried it with other themes and it doesn’t 
   even show up, just a plain white screen. (php error?)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qa/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qa/)

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 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626422)
 * Try deactivating all plugins but Q A.
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626428)
 * No good.
    I have it partly working on another blog, but it’s totally messed up
   my one column. It looks awful! Does this happen to other people too? Ive tried
   three different wordpress installations and about 10 different themes. Is this
   plugin designed to not smoothly fit in a theme so that you ask for premium support?
 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626429)
 * Try using another WP theme. It works on all of my WP installs, which is about
   11.
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626431)
 * It doesn’t appear to be working with Artisteer generated themes or Buddypress_default
   theme.
 * Can anyone help ?
 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626432)
 * So we are now narrowing it down to themes as the problem?
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626437)
 * I disagree, I think we are narrowing it down to the plugin, it’s a job half done.
 * Even in the themes that it does work in, the Q&A form is poorly aligned, no margins,
   or doesn’t fit in the page space and looks ugly. There are loads of themes it
   doesn’t just fit in.
 * The most obvious (user friendly) way to create this plugin, would have been to
   create a new page in wordpress and add a shortcode to that page.
 * One might think that it was done this way on purpose?
    (Heaven forbid)
 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626438)
 * Sorry got the script mixed up with this one which is good : [http://wordpress.org/tags/q-and-a?forum_id=10](http://wordpress.org/tags/q-and-a?forum_id=10)
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626444)
 * *you’ve been talking about a completely different plugin all this time?*
 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626445)
 * Yes and may I ask your forgiveness? They are so close in name.
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626455)
 * would you like to test my theory for me ?
 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626457)
 * Theory of life? Sure, lets test.
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626460)
 * LOL – if you have the time perhaps you could let me know if the [Q&A plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qa/)
   is as user unfriendly for your themes, as it is for mine.
    (no one else seems
   to be answering here, I guess because WPMU provides premium support for this 
   plugin)
 *  [caps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caps/)
 * (@caps)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626461)
 * Why not just install it?
 *  [solagirl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solagirl/)
 * (@solagirl)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626476)
 * I installed Q&A plugin and tested it with the default theme twentyeleven. It 
   messed up the content area, no margin at all.
    However, I was able to fix it 
   by wrapping the content of q&a template with a container div like this
 *     ```
       <div id="content" role="main">
          <div id="qa-page-wrapper">
          ...
          </div><!--#qa-page-wrapper-->
       </div>
       ```
   
 * #qa-page-wrapper has a float property and a floating div can mess up the layout
   easily. So wrapping the floating div with a container div that belongs to your
   theme should fix it.
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-qa-its-just-a-mess/#post-2626488)
 * I’m sorry I don’t understand, there are eight default templates from what I can
   see, where does this code go?
    Also, my problem is not just the margin, but the
   plugin displaces the columns, putting my widgets all over the place.
 * No one from incsub somes to support their lite version here, it’s jusst a really
   ugly marketing ploy.
 * I wouldn’t mind if they just said buy it and get it, but when there are not even
   promises that it works in the first place, Incsub appear to be a bunch of cowboys.
   It’s bordering on criminal.
 * I dont’ understand how a plugin that doesn’t even work with the default wordpress
   theme, can get 45 votes and almost 5 stars.
    Has the world of open source been
   bought out?

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