About this plugin
Answers Pai is a free community plugin for WordPress. It lets you run questions and answers, topic-based discussion, member profiles, and reputation on your own site and database.
Community pages and the moderation dashboard use clean URLs you choose (for example /community/ ), outside wp-admin.
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Developer: Dewan Shahedur Rahman
Who is this for?
- Site owners who want a community on WordPress
- Publishers who need Q&A and discussion on their domain
- Teams that prefer WordPress users and hosting instead of a separate forum stack
What you can build
- A Q&A community with questions, answers, voting, comments, and accepted answers
- Discussion organized by topics (categories) and tags
- Member profiles, reputation points, a leaderboard, and notifications
Architecture
Answers Pai uses a Vue front-end on top of the WordPress REST API, with dedicated database tables for community data. The community still runs on your WordPress URLs. Content stays in your database.
Community features
- Questions and answers with a rich editor (formatting, code, images, video, polls)
- Voting, comments, and best-answer / solved workflows
- Topics and tags
- Member profiles: avatar, cover, bio, social links, reputation
- Leaderboard (all-time, monthly, weekly)
- Notifications for answers, comments, accepted answers, and more
- Built-in full-text search
- Clean community permalinks and crawlable noscript content for key views
- JSON-LD (QAPage, Organization, breadcrumbs), Open Graph, and webmaster verification tags
- Local media uploads to the WordPress Media Library
Moderation and administration
- Community dashboard at /{base}/admin/ for day-to-day management
- Optional pre-publication moderation for questions and answers
- Flagging with resolve actions
- Member roles (member / moderator), temporary or permanent bans
- Email verification, password reset, and account email preferences
Privacy and data ownership
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Optional add-ons
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Answers Pai is free software licensed under GPLv2 or later.
External services
This free plugin does not call third-party APIs by default. Optional analytics may load only when an administrator configures Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager IDs in settings.
Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager
- Used for: optional page analytics on community pages when you enter a Measurement ID or GTM container ID.
- Data sent: standard Analytics/GTM browser data (page views and related events) when the script loads.
- When: only if configured; if cookie consent is enabled, scripts load only after the visitor accepts.
- Terms: Google APIs Terms
- Privacy: Google Privacy Policy
Optional Google Fonts may load when you choose a Google-hosted font in appearance settings.
Google Fonts
- Used for: loading the selected webfont for community and dashboard shells.
- Data sent: font CSS/font file requests to Google Fonts servers.
- When: only when a Google Font family is selected.
- Terms: Google Fonts
- Privacy: Google Privacy Policy
), those services are documented with that product. Configure API keys only if you accept each provider’s terms.