AnsPress - Question and answer plugin

Contributors: nerdaryan
Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?business=support@anspress.io&cmd=_xclick&item_name=Donation%20to%20AnsPress%20development
Tags: question, answer, q&a, forum, profile, stackoverflow, quora, buddypress
Requires at least: 4.1.1
Tested up to: 4.2
Stable tag: 2.2.0.2
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Free question and answer plugin for WordPress. Made with developers in mind, highly customizable.

Description

Demo & support forum: http://anspress.io/
GitHub repo: Git AnsPress

Easily add question and answer section like stackoverflow.com or quora.com in your WordPress. AnsPress is a most complete question and answer system for WordPress. AnsPress is made with developers in mind, highly customizable. AnsPress provide an easy to use override system for theme.

Extensions:

• AnsPress email notification
• Categories for AnsPress
• Tags for AnsPress

Developers tool

• AnsPress extension boilerplate builder

List of features:

• Sorting question and answer by many options.
• Ajax based form submission
• Theme system
• Flag and moderate posts
• Voting on question and answer
• Question tags and categories
• Question labels (i.e. Open, close, duplicate) new labels can be added easily.
• Select best answer
• Tags suggestions
• Comment on question and answer
• reCaptcha
• User level : Participant, Editor, Moderator
• Email notification
• User can add questions to his favorite
• User can edit profile
• User can upload cover photo
• Friends and followers system
• User points system (reputation)

Help & Support

For fast help and support, please post on our forum http://anspress.io/questions/

Page Shortcodes

Use this shortcode in base to AnsPress work properly [anspress]

Installation

Read full documentation here http://anspress.io/documents/

Frequently Asked Questions

Read full FAQ here http://anspress.io/documents/doc_page=faq

Changelog

2.2.0.1

2.2

• Form error message below input field
• DB error in Answer sorting
• While try to edit answer format get cleared
• BuddyPress reputation count shows 1
• Load minified assets
• Improved admin dashboard
• popup add link box in tinymce cuts off content.
• Add breadcrumbs widget
• Add breadcrumbs function
• Improve popup notification style
• Dont show delete button if post already trashed
• Add permanenet delete button from frontend
• error 404 when no trailing slash
• highlight trashed post
• Changes author when editing a question
• Private answers are not visible to its author
• Improve editor mode toggle buttons
• Add loading animation in post/edit comment button
• Improve subscribe button
• disable view count ap_meta entry
• Add icons in stats widget
• Check comments as general user
• Show question filter tab on Category and Tag pages
• BuddyPress not working
• Short category dropdown in ask form as defined
• Rename "voted" tab to vote
• Unsolved also shows questions with selected answers
• On Single Question page , Active | Voted | Newest | Oldest should be ajax based
• Ask page title option not working
• Dont let reputation to be negative
• Improve UI of button
• Add sticky answer navigation
• Comment loading shows success
• Add answer form help content
• Improve answer form UI
• Added fullscreen toggle in Answer form
• Improve UI of question page
• Check UI of comments when comments are shown by default
• Change font weight of question and answer action links
• Improve UI of comments
• Pending comment is highlighted
• Add comment author name and time
• Commentrs are not subscribed by default
• User is not unsubscribed when his comment or answer is deleted
• Anonymous cant answer if question is created by anonymous
• Reputation showing wrong count
• white space when user don't have permission to view answers
• Improve admin answer table
• Improve admin question table
• Added image from link in question and answer
• Add image uploader in question and answer

2.1.6

• [option] added option for toggling question sidebar
• [fix] Search widget and form
• [fix] Check if array
• [fix] anspress trash action hooks
• [fix] Add translation support for "ago"-string #283
• [fix] User can't edit his own answer
• [fix] Some documentation error

2.1.5

• [fix] minor bugs
• [fix] Check undefined in ap_get_avatar_scr()
• [new] Added avatar upload
• [fix] ask and answer form button on update
• [fix] Hide close test in editor modal
• [fix] added blockquote style in editor
• [fix] Dropdown not work for ajax content

2.1.4

• [fix] allowed style align property
• [fix] allowed strikethorugh (del) tag for editor
• [fix] Allowed ul, ol, li tags in editor
• [new] Added filter for ask and answer form editors
• [fix] "status updated" message when post status get updated
• [fix] Answers shorting
• [fix] sanitize_text_field breaks loading question with non-ansi symbols in url #281

2.1.1

• Tested with WP 4.2
• [option] Toggle question permalink

2.1.1

• Minor issues fixed

2.1

• [new]adding user profile fields
• [theme] improved button
• [fix] Questions widget #279
• [fix] let admin answer even if question is closed
• [fix] Answer permalink #279
• [fix] Possible XSS vulnerability
• [theme] added default widget in question sidebar
• [fix] dropdown #279
• [new] subscribe on own question
• [fix] User page not found if space in user_name #274
• [theme] Answer form
• [fix] Answers pagination
• [fix] chnage_status to change_status #278
• [fix] Answers loop and count
• [new] Ajaxified change status
• [new] Change post status
• [theme] added post status sticker
• [fix] Query "private_post" and "moderate" only if user have permission
• Padding for no-questions element
• [theme] Question list meta improved
• [theme] Improved single question page layout
• [theme] question page layout
• [fix] Answer loop
• [added] search form before questions list
• Updated question permalink, removed base page
• Replaced .anspress-container to #anspress
• [fix] Bugs
• [removed] Unused file responce_message.php
• [fix] 12 major bugs
• [fix] Removed var dump
• [fix] Major bugs
• [fix] Question and answer moderation
• [new] user question and answer page
• User posts styled
• [new] User posts page added
• Improved question query and loop
• [fix] Shows login message when user dont have permission to ask or answer
• [added] user page, initial.min.js
• Improved user menu
• [added] option for toggle user directory page
• user link improved
• [fix] Sorting user by reputation
• [fix] page titles
• [added] styles for users loop
• [added] option for "users per page"
• [added] user page and loop
• [added] Option for toggling reputations
• [fix] 404 causing infinite loop
• Added ap_ prefix

2.0.5

• [fix] Removed anonymous function for older version compatibility
• Improved user answers list
• [Added] do_action( 'wordpress_social_login' );
• Removed history loading after plugin initiate
• [fix] History
• [disabled] ap_post_votes() for each post to decrease DB query
• Added trailing slash in question url to prevent 301 redirect
• [fix] Related questions was missing
• Order reputation by date

2.0.4

• [fix] AnsPress options
• [fix] hide any existing loding animation
• [fix] Wrong redirect after deleting question
• [added] ap_get_all_reputation
• Updated admin menu position
• Loading animation for select button
• [added] loading animation and improved notification

2.0.3

• Check empty comment before posting
• refresh question suggestion on backspace
• Include previous version point count
• Remove unused options

2.0.2

• Rename old tags
• Added category widget
• Added widget position in base page
• fix button sizes
• Added two options; - Disable OP to answer their question (not applied for admin) - Disallow multiple answer per question 9not applied for admin) [fix] - Show wrong message when user already answered
• fixed voting button on answer
• Added requirement checker
• [fix] undefined index
• Removed unused functions
• Load buddypress file on bp_loaded
• Added notification for answers and comments
• fixed some major bugs
• added doc comments for anspress_sc
• Added parameters for [anspress] shortcode
• [fix] sorting on home page
• [fix] run flush_rules only ap_opt('ap_flush') == 'true'
• Best practice issues
• Don't let reputation to negative
• flush apmeta when related post gets deleted
• [fix] delete flag meta on post trash
• fixed bug in reputation.php
• Improved question page style
• Improved list style
• added reputation page in buddypress
• Disable reputation for anonymous
• Check metions in answers
• Check mention in questions
• Added reputation and fixed meta delete
• replace action link
• [new] add question and answer to buddypress activity stream
• [fix] pagination in buddypress
• Added answers in buddypress
• Added questions tab in buddypress
• Detect buddypress and change user link to BP profile
• removed .updated class
• Added captcha in Answer form
• Added reCaptcha
• Styled editor
• Added questions list widget
• hook option on admin_init
• Disable quicktags in questions
• [fix] related questions widget
• Improved subscribe button
• Exclude best answer from main Answers_Query
• [fix] Answer sorting
• Added author credit
• Clear editor after posting answer
• Added option to disable voting
• Update comment count on new comment
• Auto update comment count
• Added publish class in time
• Fix answer count in answers list
• [fix] ajax loading comments in answers
• [fix] ajax loading after editing comment
• Posts actions as dropdown menu
• Checkbox inline description
• [fix] allow anonymous for answer
• Removed editor toggle and moved media button
• Added option showing title in question page
• Fixed ajax loading while answer is first.
• Added .published class in time
• Fixed user link
• Lost MEDIA library option from admins menu
• Updated style
• declare the visibility for methods
• Added uninstall hook
• Removed unused files
• [fix] questions page paging rewrite
• Missing argument 2 for AnsPress_Theme::the_title()
• Improved admin style and added option for locking delete action
• Show CPT menu for delete_pages
• Show AnsPress menu if user have manage_options
• Load shortcode on init
• Held for moderation
• Fixed some bugs and added grunt
• [fix] Subscribe button
• Fixed conflicts with profile
• [fix] use question title in answer title
• Made it compatible with profile plugin
• [fix] Rewrite rule when base page is child page
• Disable comments option added
• [fix] Question detail is appearing for all posts
• [fix] Search page
• Added anspress menu
• [fix] form get cleared even if there is error
• [fix] Toggle private post
• [fix] Language files were not loading
• Added option for switching text editor as default
• [fix] TwentyFifteen compatibility
• Show this label "No questions match your search criteria" when nothing found in search
• Improved question list
• Improved dashboard
• Added question select
• Improved flagging system
• Disallow answer for closed question
• Add private question & moderate sticker in question
• Enable question sidebar only if there is widget in it
• Flag button fixed
• Hide comments be default
• Added related questions widget
• Added question stats widget
• Added participants and subscribe widget
• Improved question and list page style
• Added action and filter for search
• Added search functionality
• Removed user.php and added required functions to functions.php
• Enable user link only if user extension installed
• Added extensions listing
• [fix] replaced icon- class to apicon-
• Check array before output menu
• [fix] Editing own comment only possible after refresh
• [removed] ap-site.js
• [new] Dynamic option group and fields
• Removed main.php
• Removed messages.php
• [fix] Participants caps were empty
• [fix] After deleting a question, troublesome redirection
• Improved form validation
• Added vote and view meta in list
• [fix] show register or login message for non-logged in
• [fix] Annonymous is unchecked in the backend but user can still ask question
• [fix] link of ask question button when there is no question
• [fixed] Answer permalink
• [fixed] Participant is not being inserted to DB
• [fixed] After comment actions are not working
• [fixed] Entering space in ask question title field show all questions
• [fixed] User page ap_meta_array_map function missing
• [fix]When AnsPress is set to home page then sorting does not work
• Rename sort query arg to ap_sort
• [fixed] unsolved question listing
• [fixed] Answer count update on ajax request
• [fixed] Wrong answer count
• [fixed] delete button
• [fixed] Select best answer
• [fixed] JS and ajax request
• [fixed] Answer form validation
• [fixed] Ajax answer submission
• [removed] Installation screen and cleaned up codes.

1.4.3

• Made compatible with WordPress 4.1.1