Contributors: nerdaryan
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Tags: question, answer, q&a, forum, profile, stackoverflow, quora, buddypress
Requires at least: 4.2
Tested up to: 4.4
Stable tag: 2.4.1
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.

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:

• Notification
• Featured Question
• 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)

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]

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

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

• New: added activity feed page
• Fix: Answers left through admin don’t show up in user stats, but show up for admin stats
• Fix: The name of question author is not completely shown on the back-end
• Fix: The avatar of “… started following …” is incorrect
• Fix: Tag validation
• Tweak: Improved reputation functions
• Tweak: Improved ap_human_time()
• Fix: table name in user query
• Fix: view data update
• Fix: Don't check minimum characters when it is zero
• Fix: view data update
• Fix: utf-8 encoding in message
• Fix: answer edit redirect
• Fix: Reputation points on new registration
• Tweak: Improved ap ajax response
• New: Added option to switch environment
• Fix: widget deprecated notice
• Language: Updated de_DE
• Tweak: Add unique body class for anspress pages
• Fix: Shows wrong user in notification for answer
• Fix: Question widget sorting not working
• Tweak: Improved flag button
• Tweak: Remove link from anonymous user
• Fix: Non Logged Users can Initiate an image Upload
• Tweak: Confirm changed email
• Tweak: subscribe button
• Language: Updated Russian from POT
• Tweak: Change base title in wp hook
• Tweak: Improved mention RegX
• Fix: page title issue :)
• Fix: coding style in ap-functions.js
• Fix: overqualified style
• Tweak: Remove unused class AP_Notification
• Tweak: Update options-page.php
• New: Added mention functionality
• Fix: New lines are cleared on saving email options
• Fix: missing version number in main plugin file
• Tweak: Locate anspress directory in parent theme if not found in child
• New: Added question shortcode
• Fix: Asker can answer own question even if option is disabled.
• New: Added option to switch user profile
• New: Added an option in user profile so they can hide themselves from public
• New: Added notification widget
• Tweak: Updated notification functions for new notification table
• Tweak: Show notification as sidebar
• Fix: subscription and notification
• Tweak: Edit question notification
• Tweak: Improved question suggestion
• Language: Added Japanese .po file
• Language: added zh-CN and zh-TW translation files
• Tweak: Improved activity system
• Tweak: Improved subscriber system
• Tweak: When answer is posted as private ajax shows anonymous avatar
• Fix: Hide suggestion if no related question found
• Tweak: Improved anspress tooltip
• Tweak: Wrap post time in anchor
• New: Replaced history by activity
• Fix: Set header as 404 if question id is false
• New: Add link to cancel comment (add/edit)
• Fix: Comment form not loading after once loaded
• New: Add page attribute in anspresss shortcode
• New: Tool to customize anspress capabilities
• Tweak: Improved admin option page
• Tweak: Removed extension specific functions
• Fix: When Anonymous posting is activate, there is a Status option shown
• Fix: breadcrumbs widget
• Fix: If user page slug is anything other then "user" it gives 404 error
• Tweak: Show a warning message if ajax does not return valid JSON
• Tweak: Added #anspress before grid class
• Fix: Duplicate query strings while sorting using ajax
• Fix: Do not include trash post status in question query
• New: overrides via a child-theme
• Fix: Insert notification only if profile is active
• Language: French translation update
• Tweak: Removed span form avatar
• Fix: Exclude anspress base page from "Front page" page list
• Tweak: Improved CS for form
• Tweak: Improved CS of class-user.php
• Tweak: Improved CS of class-form.php
• Tweak: Improved CS of answer-form.php, answer-loop.php
• Language: Turkish translation submitted by nsaral
• Fix: compatibility issue with multisite subsites
• Tweak: Modified activate.php to use $wpdb->prefix instead of base_prefix for compatibility on multisite subsites.
• Fix: ap_is_my_profile()
• Fix: Removed print_r from profile form
• Fix: undefined object
• Tweak: Added multipart form
• Tweak: Improved hooks.php
• Tweak: Improved standard of hooks.php
• Tweak: Improved coding standard of common-pages.php
• Tweak: class-theme.php code improved
• Fix: Search post by blank search phrase
• Fix: user menu link
• New: Search question and answer by user_login in wp-admin
• Fix: pagination in home page
• New: Added post search by author_id in wp-admin post table
• New: Added "banned" user role
• New: Renamed actions.php to hooks.php
• New: Improved roles check
• Tweak: Improved coding standard of class-roles-cap.php
• Tweak: Improved coding standard of ajax.php
• Tweak: Improved coding standard in theme.php
• New: Added comment flagging
• Language: Italian translation

• Updated paged variable when in home page
• Removed unused arg
• Fixed pagination on home page
• Restore question history after deleting answer
• Upload field triggered twice
• All links of user menu not shown if in other profile page
• Updated french translation by Shad
• User active time shown as Last seen 46 years ago
• Escaped cover photo url
• Added option for disabling user menu collapse
• Improved user page and stats
• Registered user widget position
• Added widget wrapper div
• Warning: Illegal string offset ‘file’
• Get paged args in user loop
• Fixed infinite loop in question page

• Added option for toggle [solved] prefix
• Added custom follow button text
• Improved user meta function
• Return default cover when there is not cover photo

• Fallback for form if JS/Ajax fails
• Moved upload field before filter, so it can be filtered
• enqueue script dependency
• Italian translation .mo missing #305
• Allow empty question description when limit is set to 0
• Added a filter to disable logging IP for view count
• Remove notification item after ajax delete
• Fix for "anonymous ask" and "only admin can answer" option conflict
• Multiple click on comments open more then one comment field
• Added responsive styles for question page
• Fix for Icon fonts are not rendering
• Added responsive styles for question list
• Change subscribe to "subscribe" to "follow question"
• Password cannot be chnaged
• Fixed warning on buddyPress pages
• Improved question loop to use global
• Unsubscribe is not working
• Added option for disabling vote down
• Update POT
• Fixed ago translation
• Notice: ap_questions_tab is deprecated
• Comment is not shown after editing
• Syntax error: unrecognized expression
• Notice: Trying to get property of non-object
• Improved login and answer tab UI
• Moved question.php inside loop
• Added filter for main question query
• Wrong variable $ap_rules
• Added filters for overriding question and answer CPT
• Added after sorting callback
• Added french translation by Romain DELOUF
• Sanitized ap_sort

• Mark notification as read after viewing
• Upvotes are misinterpreted as Downvotes in User’s Reputation page
• Reputation notification should hyperlinked to user’s reputation page
• Dont show follow button for own profile
• Grammatical error: comment to commented
• fix: division by zero warning in about page
• User profile fields empty, account tab redirect to admin profile.
• Polish language updated to 2.3

• Updated version and pot
• Improved categories page
• Close question after selecting if option enabled
• Notification as dropdown
• Redirect user to login page if non loggedin user try to visit profile
• Error message on description field is overlapped by upload field
• How to ask tab
• Add category and tags filter in question list
• Added category sorting
• Improve category widget
• Image upload size
• add option to disable hover card
• added users widget
• Paragraph in comments
• improved method update_menu_url
• Add [solved] in question title
• User page show anonymous when permalink not enabled
• Allow filtering page slug
• Fixed UI and typo issues* Don't check for basic roles
• Updated plugin version
• Fixed minor and major bugs
• Notification system
• Fixed breadcrumbs for user pages
• The breadcrumb on the base page is duplicating
• if recaptcha is enabled and keys missing then show warning
• Added user dropdown menu item
• User hover card
• Added cover upload
• Improved user pages
• Improved coding standards
• Removed plugin-activation.php
• fixed Complexity in codes
• Added "more" in user menu
• Add subscribe page for user
• Add subscribe page for user
• Improved question query clauses
• member search
• Question sorting tab to select
• Added vote count meta
• Added followers widget
• Added followers and following count meta
• Improved users loop,
• Added followers page button
• Added users sorting by answers and best answers
• Added users sorting by last active
• Users page tab UI improvement
• fixed avatar
• Added last seen meta
• Added profile views
• User registered date
• Improved reputation chart data
• fixed reputation count
• added user question and answer meta
• Avatar upload ajax error
• Added about page
• Added reputation page
• User reputation loop
• Improved user profile fields
• fix canonical url when wpseo plugin installed
• Title conflict when wpseo plugin installed
• Removed base from permalink when ap_page is base
• Direct user link
• [fix] Auto flush rewrite rule when base page updated
• [fix] include current users post in list
• [fix] Safe CSS attributes
• [theme] Login popup improved
• [fix] Image uploader not working in webkit browser
• [theme]Added login modal
• [fix] Max images per post option as number
• [fix] ap_the_answer_content on bp_init
• [fix] Load BP hooks on bp_init
• [fix] conical and short link in head
• [new] Added Crayon Syntax Highlighter button
• [new] Add tinymce Autogrow
• [improved] Image upload in posts
• Check file exist before triggering error
• Check for category and tags extension
• [new] Hide how to answer tab if no page selected
• Allowed support for GitHub Updater plugin
• [fix] Do not log view in meta table if already viewed or anonymous
• [fix] View counts updated for every page view
• [fix] Strip shortcode from Answer and question
• [fix] Format get cleared while editing
• [fix] remove extra white space from contents
• [fix] Editor toggle in answer form
• [fix] Switch editors not working in ask form, image upload in quick-tag editor
• [fix] Buddypress hooks
• [fix] Image upload not working
• updated plugin.json
• [fix] missing colon
• fixed translation function to the wordpress one
• fixed translation issue cussed by missing gettext function
• fixed translation function to the wordpress one
• added translation support for author credits
• [fix] require loading wrong path
• [new] Featured question (sticky post)
• [added] Improved subscriber system, allow community to subscribe for tags and categories
• [translation] Spanish-Spain by Pelayo de Salvador Morell
• [translation] German translation added by bloggerpro.de
• [fix] db table prefix
• Updated languages/ap.pot
• Added about page
• Updated dashboard
• [option] label update: Asker can answer
• [fix] Form error message below input field
• [fix] minor doc bug fixes
• [fix] Minor and major issues
• [fix] DB error in Answer sorting
• [fix] BuddyPress reputation count shows 1
• [new] load minified assets
• [theme] Improved admin dashboard
• [added] Added breadcrumbs widget
• [new] Breadcrumbs function
• [fix] Improve popup notification style
• [fix] Don't show delete button if question is already trashed

• 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