What is a Question and Answer site?
A Q&A site helps your online community to share knowledge. People with questions get the answers they need. The community is enriched by commenting, voting, notifications, points and rankings.
Why offer Q&A on my site?
Your members will enjoy the interaction that Q&A enables, and will visit your site more regularly. In addition, many web searches are questions, so Q&A content will attract search engine traffic.
What is Question2Answer?
Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,158 sites in 40 languages.
How do I get Q2A?
Download Question2Answer, latest version then read how to install. Version 1.8.4 was released on May 7th, 2020. Also on GitHub.
What's the license?
Question2Answer is open source, licensed under GPL v2+.
How can I help?
Contribute via Github, create a theme, plugin or translation.
Easy to set up
- Q2A takes 5 minutes (or less!) to install.
- Easy styling with CSS themes.
- Supports translation into any language.
- Custom sidebar, widgets, pages and links.
- SEO features such as XML Sitemap and neat URLs.
Core Q&A features
- Fast integrated search engine.
- Categories (up to 4 levels deep) and/or tagging.
- Voting, comments, follow-on and closed questions.
- Points-based reputation management.
- RSS, email notifications and personal news feeds.
... or integrate with existing sites
- Out-of-the-box WordPress and Joomla integration.
- Custom single sign-on support for other sites.
- Deep integration and customization via plugins.