August 19th in WordPress Themes by Wordpress Jedi . Q&A sites are going to be popular for the foreseeable future. People love having the opportunity to ask others questions and help others get answers to theirs. Many assume that sites such as Yahoo! Answers have cornered the Q&A market. Those types of sites are huge but they don’t cover all topics. There is no reason you can’t create a killer Q/A portal to cover only the topics that interest you. These 5 WordPress Answers Theme let you do that quickly :
Sofa QandA: one of the best looking themes in this category. It has a built-in voting system, a reputation manager, and internal bookmarking (among other features).
Instant Q&A: another versatile theme for Q&A websites. It has 3 color schemes and comes with custom pages for sign up and other activities on your site. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 24th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . Questions and Answers sites may be making a comeback. With companies such as LinkedIn getting their visitors’ more involved with their Q&A sections, you should not need much more proof that Q&A sites can actually work. Your site may never get big enough to challenge Yahoo! Answers. Still, there is a lot of value that your visitors can gain from your niche Q&A website. Thanks to QnA Theme, you can build your own answers website with WordPress.
QnA theme is more than just a theme. Sure, you can use it to create a question/answer website from scratch. But you also have the option to import questions from Yahoo! Answers sites. That would save you a lot of time when you are just getting started with your website. The theme does have a decent settings page that lets you customize how questions are displayed on your website. You also get to upload your logo and customize the look and feel of your theme from that page. Just beware of the Google Panda update. If you are planning to import questions from Yahoo, do your homework and work on some unique content too (or just import the questions and discard the answers).
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Continue Reading November 16th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Yahoo! Answers is a very good example of a site that is based on user generated content. Without all the questions that people have asked on that site for years, it is not clear how it could survive. You, too, can have your own Q&A website. The good news is you do not need to ditch WordPress to get it done. WP-Answers is a powerful plugin that turns your website into a Q&A community and lets you get your visitors engaged and more active on your website.
WP-Answers transforms your WordPress install into a fully-fledged Q&A social community. This plugin does have its own reputation system, meaning that your members earn points and lose it as they answer and ask questions (similar to the reputation system used in Yahoo! Answers).
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Continue Reading November 12th in Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . Yahoo! Answers and Linkedin Q&A are two exciting services that you can use to find the answers to your questions or help others with their needs. Those sites cover a wide array of topics. You can always create a similar type of website around your own niche using WordPress. It’s possible using both plugins and themes. There are also a few third party services that webmasters can take advantage of to implement these types of websites. Interested? Here are 8 easy ways to create your own Q&A website with WordPress:
Q&A WordPress Themes:
Perhaps the best way to start your own Q&A website. These themes can manage your questions and answers and help you build a stronger community around your website:
Askit: an slick WordPress theme for Q&A websites. It has 7 color schemes for you to choose from. Its user reputation system is pretty solid too.
Instant Q&A: perhaps the best Q&A theme on the market (at the time of this writing). It’s clean, very dynamic, and designed with your community in mind. Your visitors gain points by participating in your community, which is a nice feature to have.
Q&A Theme: a clean answers theme for WordPress. It is easy to set up and lets you build a community around your favorite topic. It lets you import questions from Yahoo! Answers.
Answers Theme: designed for dedicated Q&A websites. It has multiple color schemes and a pretty clean design. You can have your blog on the side using this theme. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading August 26th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . Yahoo! Answers and LinkedIn Q&As are great places to find what people are asking about and get answers to your own questions. Those sites cover almost everything under the sun, but you can always create your very own niche answers website with WordPress. Think about it. If your blog’s focus is on a narrow market, adding a Q&A section to your website can help your visitors share their questions and get answers that they wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else. Thanks to Instant Q&A Theme, you can turn your WordPress website into a Q&A website and start gathering those questions without a major up-front investment.
Instant Q&A is a turnkey questions and answers solution that offers 3 color schemes and gives your visitors the chance to post their questions and search through existing ones on your website. This theme is ad ready too, giving you the opportunity to start monetizing your website from the get go. It’s not one of those cheap clone themes and does have a lot of power under its hood.
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