# DW Question Answer Pro

DW Question Answer Pro documentation version 1.1.4

## Table of Content

1. Installation
2. General Settings

- Page Settings
- Question Settings
- Answer Settings
- Captcha Settings
- Other Settings
- Permalink Settings
- Upload Settings
- Vote Settings
- Akismet Settings
- Auto Closure Settings
- BuddyPress Settings
- Update Settings

3. Emails
4. Permisions

- Plugin Name : DW Question Answer Pro
- Version : Version 1.1.4
- Minumum Required : WordPress Version 4.9 or higher
- Author by : DesignWall
- Support via Email : hi@designwall.com
- Support via question section : https://www.designwall.com/question/

DW Question Answer is a WordPress Plugin which helps you build a Question & Answer system on your WordPress sites. The plugin is easy to install and set up. Let start building up your community with this WordPress question & answer system.

## Installation

There are two installation types: Installing the plugin from WordPress Admin Plugin Upload and from FTP

#### From WordPress Admin Plugin Upload

- Step 1-Go to source page to download the dw-question-answer-pro.zip file.
- Step 2-Log into your Dashboard > Plugins > Add New .
- Step 3-Under Install Plugins, click the Upload link.
- Step 4-Upload the dw-question-answer-pro.zip file then click the Install Now button.
- Step 5-Once done, click the Activate Plugin link.

#### From FTP

- Step 1-Go to source page to download the dw-question-answer-pro.zip file. Then, unpackage the .zip file, this is the folder that you need to manually upload to your website using a FTP client.
- Step 2-You would need to access your host through the FTP manager.
- Step 3-Upload the folder you extracted from the zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your web server.
- Step 4-Log into Dashboard > Plugins > Installed plugins , look for DW Question Answer Pro, click on "Activate" link.

## General Settings

General settings will give all general options to configure out for the question & answer plugin.

- Go to Dashboard >> Questions >> Settings >> General to start setting it up

#### Page Settings -

This section will allow you to select the questions listing page and the ask form question page. By defaults, these two pages are automatically created once the theme activated.

Also, you can select the styles for the DW Q&A. We have added 2 styles for the plugin.

You can select a login/register page that you wish.

You can cutomize the style if you know the code.

#### Question Settings -

Question Setting section lets you configure settings such as: number of posts to show, enabling or disabling private questions and hide status of question

#### Answer Settings -

Answer Setting section will give you option to show all answers on a single question page only. Also, it allows you to enter number of the answers you wish to show on the single question page, You can Display admin answer first then display another answer and Answers must be manually approved.

#### Captcha Settings -

This section allows you to block Spam Questions and Comments with only one click.

Enable the Captcha on Question or Answer page.

- Captcha Type: There are three Captcha types. By default, Google reCaptcha is packaged with the core of DWQA. The reCaptcha v2 and FunCaptcha are added by the DWQA Captcha extension. Select the suitable Captcha according to your taste.
- Google Captcha Public / Private Key: Enter the Google reCaptcha public / private key.
- FunCaptcha Public / Private Key: Enter the FunCaptcha Public / Private Key.

##### 1. How to Setup Google Captcha

- Step 1: Log into your Google account, then go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha.
- Step 2: Click on ” Get reCaptcha” button at the upper right hand corner of the screen.
- Step 3: Register for Website.

Register the Website in which you need to integrate Google reCaptcha API.

- Step 4: Once the registration is done, the Site Key (Public Key) and Secret Key (Private Key) will be shown as follows:

##### 2. How to Setup FunCaptcha

- Step 1: Go to https://www.funcaptcha.com/, click on Get FunCaptcha button at the upper right conner of the screen. A popup window will be shown as shown below:

Here you enter your email, your domain and select your plugin as WordPress. Once done, press “ Register” button. After that, you will be required to verify your password before get started

- Step 2: Access on https://www.funcaptcha.com/domain-settings/ to get the FunCaptcha key as follows:

#### Other Settings -

This section allows you to enable/disable markdown syntax in the editor area of the question and answer editor. Also, you can allow mention a user in the comments and answers.

Use the following struct to mention a user: @username

#### Permalink Settings -

If you like, you may enter custom structure for your single question, question category and question tag URLs here. For example, using topic as your question base would make your question links like http://your-website-link/topic/question-name/. If you leave these blank the default will be used.

Also you can select some the following option to make your question SEO friendly and Human-friendly at the same time.

If your updating makes your site inaccessible and your posts, questions return a 404 Error page, don’t panic, all your posts are still there and safe. What you need to do is fix the permalink settings of the DW Question & Answer plugin.

To do this, go to Admin Panel >> Settings >> Permalinks, scroll down and simply click on the Save Changes button

#### Upload Settings -

Plugin have included the upload file to question answer, you can insert the file types and file size.

#### vote Settings -

From now, all the Anonymous can vote the questions and answers

#### Akismet Settings -

We have integrated the plugin with the Akismet - anti spam plugin.

#### Auto Closure Settings -

This option allow you set the time to change the status of the questions to Closed status

#### BuddyPress Settings -

This ooption only show after install the Buddypress plugin and allow you change the tab name of DW Q&A plugin in the profile page

#### Update Settings -

This option allow you auto update the plugin from the Codecanyon.

## Emails

This plugin allows you to set up notification email sent out to Admin and Users regarding new questions, answers and comments.

To configure, log in to Dashboard >> DW Q&A >> Settings >> Emails.

There are 7 email templates provided:

- New Question Notification: send out to Administrator regarding new questions posted.
- New Answer Notification: send out to Question’s author regarding new answer posted.
- New Comment to Question Notification: send out to Question’s author regarding new comment to question posted.
- New Comment to Answer Notification: send out to Question’s author regarding new comment to answer posted.
- New Answer Notification ( To Followers ): send out to Followers regarding new answer posted.
- New Comment to Question Notification (to Followers): send out to Followers regarding new comment to question posted.
- New Comment to Answer Notification (to Followers): send out to Followers regarding new comment to answer posted.

We already support a simple and clean style for email, simply Add your Logo and edit the content as you wish.

From Email: Fill in the sender email for notification system.

## Permisions

Permission Settings section allows you to control who and how they can interact on your Question & Answer page.

This section is in back-end: Dashboard >> DW Q&A >> Settings. There are 3 separate settings for Question, Answer and Comment, applied for default user roles of WordPress.

By default, one can always edit, delete his own questions, answers and comments. Thus, the Edit and Delete permission here in back-end mean that he can edit and delete ALL other questions, answers and comments.

As for anonymous users: they add answers, questions without logging in or registering.

The plugin now supports custom user roles from third party plugins.

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this template. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the DW Question Answer Pro plugin, you might consider visiting the question page here https://www.designwall.com/question/

## Shortcodes

At the moment, the plugin has the following shortcodes:
- List question: `[dwqa-list-questions]`
- Submit question form: `[dwqa-submit-question-form]`
- Search form: `[dwqa-search-form]`
- Submit question for each category: `[dwqa-submit-question-form category="catslug"]`
- List question by category: `[dwqa-list-questions category="question"]`