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wAnswers turns your WordPress site into a structured community Q&A platform. Every question is a WordPress post with its own canonical URL, server-rendered HTML, and complete QAPage JSON-LD schema - the exact format Google uses to surface Q&A content in rich snippets, People Also Ask boxes, and AI Overviews.<\/p>\n\n
No JavaScript rendering. No iframe embeds. No third-party dependencies. No jQuery.<\/p>\n\n
Live demo:<\/strong> https:\/\/wbuild.dev\/questions\/<\/p>\n\n Most Q&A plugins render everything via a single shortcode page - one URL, no per-question structured data, effectively invisible to crawlers. wAnswers works the opposite way.<\/p>\n\n Every question gets its own permanent URL ( AI search engines like Perplexity, ChatGPT Browse, and Google AI Overviews favour content with clear Q&A structure, explicit authorship, date signals, topic tagging, and Speakable content markers. wAnswers outputs all of these automatically on every question page.<\/p>\n\n [wanswers_qa] - Embed the full Q&A feed on any page.<\/p>\n\n [wanswers_leaderboard] - Embed a standalone leaderboard on any page.<\/p>\n\n [wanswers_leaderboard limit=\"5\"] - Show top 5 users per tab (default is 10).<\/p>\n\n The plugin JavaScript is vanilla JS with no jQuery requirement. Styles are self-contained with no external CDN requests. Everything runs on your server.<\/p>\n\n This plugin uses the Gravatar service to display user profile images on member profile pages. When a user visits a member profile page, the plugin requests an avatar image from Gravatar based on the member's email address (hashed with MD5).<\/p>\n\n Data sent: an MD5 hash of the user's email address, included in the image URL.\nWhen: each time a member profile page is loaded.\nService provider: Automattic Inc.\nTerms of Service: https:\/\/automattic.com\/tos\/\nPrivacy Policy: https:\/\/automattic.com\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n\n Yes. The plugin uses its own page templates that call get_header() and get_footer() from your active theme. All styles are self-contained. You can override any template by placing a copy in your theme root folder - for example yourtheme\/single-wanswers_question.php.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. If either plugin is active, their title and meta description tags take precedence on Q&A pages. The plugin's JSON-LD schema blocks output independently and do not conflict with SEO plugin schema output.<\/p><\/dd>\n Enable \"Noindex shortcode pages\" in Questions > Settings. This adds a noindex meta tag to any page containing the [wanswers_qa] shortcode so only the CPT archive at \/questions\/ is indexed. Alternatively, enable Homepage Mode - your Q&A then has only one canonical URL at your site root.<\/p><\/dd>\n Homepage Mode serves the Q&A feed directly at your site root (yoursite.com\/) instead of at yoursite.com\/questions\/. To use it, go to Settings > Reading and set \"Your homepage displays\" to \"Your latest posts\", then enable Homepage Mode in Questions > Settings. The \/questions\/ archive issues a 301 redirect to \/ automatically. Individual question pages at \/questions\/slug\/ are unaffected.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, within a 1-hour window after posting. After that window, only administrators and editors can edit content. The time limit is enforced server-side.<\/p><\/dd>\n Notifications are sent via wp_mail() using your site's configured mail settings. For reliable delivery it is recommended to use a transactional email plugin such as WP Mail SMTP, Postmark for WordPress, or SendGrid.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. The plugin JavaScript is written in vanilla JS with no jQuery dependency.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Two tables are created on activation: one for vote records and one for email subscriptions. Both are prefixed with your WordPress table prefix. Data is removed if you uninstall the plugin via the Plugins screen.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, absolutely. Go to Questions > Settings > Footer Credit and uncheck the option. The credit is shown by default but is entirely optional and not required.<\/p><\/dd>\n The plugin has not been tested on Multisite installations and is not officially supported in that environment.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nWhy wAnswers Is Different: SEO & GEO First<\/h4>\n\n
\/questions\/my-question\/<\/code>). Every page ships with the structured data Google and AI search engines need to surface your content in search results, rich snippets, and AI citations.<\/p>\n\nGEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)<\/h4>\n\n
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Does it work with any theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it conflict with Yoast SEO or RankMath?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I prevent duplicate content if I use both \/questions\/ and a shortcode page?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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Can users edit their questions and answers?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How does email delivery work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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Can I remove the \"Powered by wAnswers\" credit?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work with WordPress Multisite?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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