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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.
No JavaScript rendering. No iframe embeds. No third-party dependencies. No jQuery.
Live demo: https://wbuild.dev/questions/
Why wAnswers Is Different: SEO & GEO First
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.
Every question gets its own permanent URL (/questions/my-question/). 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.
GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)
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.
Core Q&A Features
Ask questions with a title and optional body text
Categorise questions by topic (custom taxonomy with live AJAX filter)
Answer questions inline with no page reload
Accept an answer (question author or admin only)
Threaded replies on answers – one level deep
Sort questions: Newest, Top Voted, Most Answered, Unanswered
Filter by topic with instant AJAX
Live search within the feed
Load-more pagination – no full page reloads
Edit questions and answers within a 1-hour window
Delete your own questions and answers
Voting & Scoring
Upvote and downvote questions and answers
Cannot vote on your own posts
Lifetime vote tracking that persists across leaderboard resets
Automatic backfill for users who existed before vote tracking was added
Leaderboard
Four tabs: Top Score, Most Questions, Most Answers, Most Accepted
Five position options: none, above feed, below feed, sidebar left, sidebar right
Optional sticky sidebar
Configurable max users shown (3 to 50)
Transient-cached and busted on every vote, answer, and reset
User Profiles
Unique profile URLs at /questions/author/username/
Gravatar support with letter-initial fallback
Lifetime score, coloured upvote and downvote counts
10 badges across 4 tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond
SVG 12-month activity chart
Recent questions and answers list
Topic badge links navigate to the filtered tag archive
Email Notifications & Weekly Digest
Notifies question author when a new answer is posted
Notifies answer author when a reply is posted
Weekly digest email via WP-Cron on a configurable day
Token-based one-click unsubscribe – no login required
Admin button to send digest immediately for testing
Configurable maximum recipients per send
Settings & Customisation
Homepage Mode – serve Q&A at your site root with automatic 301 redirect from /questions/
Admin-editable heading, subtitle, SEO title, and meta description for the archive page
Questions per page, answers per page, max answers per question page
Minimum and maximum content length validation
Rate limiting per user for questions, answers, and votes
Custom CSS field – override plugin styles without editing files
Question moderation mode – hold new questions for admin approval
Noindex shortcode pages to prevent duplicate content with the CPT archive
Footer credit toggle – shown by default, completely optional and freely removable
Full compatibility with Yoast SEO and RankMath
SEO & GEO Schema
QAPage JSON-LD on every single question page
Question and Answer entities with author, dates, and vote counts
acceptedAnswer marked in schema when set
BreadcrumbList on single, archive, and taxonomy pages
CollectionPage schema on archive and topic pages
Organization schema sitewide for brand entity recognition
WebSite and SearchAction for Google Sitelinks Searchbox eligibility
Speakable specification on question pages – AI and voice citation signal
Open Graph and Twitter Card meta on every question page
Explicit canonical link on every page type
dateModified updated on every edit, answer, and reply
Microdata itemscope and itemprop on question cards in the feed
Shortcodes
[wanswers_qa] – Embed the full Q&A feed on any page.
[wanswers_leaderboard] – Embed a standalone leaderboard on any page.
[wanswers_leaderboard limit=”5″] – Show top 5 users per tab (default is 10).
No External Dependencies
The plugin JavaScript is vanilla JS with no jQuery requirement. Styles are self-contained with no external CDN requests. Everything runs on your server.
External services
Gravatar
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).
Data sent: an MD5 hash of the user’s email address, included in the image URL.
When: each time a member profile page is loaded.
Service provider: Automattic Inc.
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