About this plugin
Stop paying for live Q&A tools with participant limits. Servantly Ask is completely free and runs on your own WordPress site, letting any audience — a conference or convention session, a company town hall, a classroom, or a congregation — submit questions, get them moderated, and see them live on a projector.
Conventions, schools, churches, companies, and event organizers all run into the same problem: they need a way to collect questions from a room (or a wider community) without a free-for-all, without a recurring SaaS bill, and without bots flooding the queue.
Servantly Ask gives you a public Q&A submission form anyone can use (no login required), a private moderation queue for whoever’s running the session, optional public archive and upvoting/polling, and a Live Display + Control Panel pair for projector or monitor output during any live Q&A segment — a Sunday service, a lecture, a panel, a keynote, or a WordCamp talk.
What It Does, At a Glance
- Public Q&A submission form (no login) with honeypot, rate limiting, optional reCAPTCHA and Akismet spam protection
- Private moderation queue with bulk actions and new-submission email alerts
- Live Display + Control Panel for projector Q&A — 13 themes, self-hosted fonts, mobile-friendly, usable by a solo speaker with no AV volunteer
- Public Question Queue with optional voting/polling, engineered to stay fast for crowds of any size, from a classroom to a stadium
- Optional public archive with anonymous, cookie-based voting — no accounts, no IP tracking, GDPR-friendly
- Auto-generated, printable QR codes linking straight to your submission form, for room doors, slides, or a check-in table
- Sessions — run several independent Q&A sessions at once (WordCamps, multi-room conferences, multi-track events), each with its own queue, Live Display, Control Panel, and QR code, plus optional e-mail invites (secret, no-login links) for guest presenters
- Layered spam protection: honeypot, rate limits, reCAPTCHA, Akismet, and optional WhoKnew Shield integration
- Free forever — no per-participant pricing, no feature paywall, self-hosted on your own WordPress site
Built for conference and convention organizers, churches, schools, companies, and community events of any size — from a dozen people in a classroom to a stadium-sized crowd.
External Services
This plugin may connect to the following third-party services when you enable the related features.
Google reCAPTCHA (Google LLC)
When: If you enable reCAPTCHA v2 or v3 under Spam Protection and provide site and secret keys.
What is sent: Form submission tokens are verified server-side with Google’s siteverify endpoint. The reCAPTCHA script may load in the visitor’s browser when the form is shown.
- Google Privacy Policy
- reCAPTCHA Terms of Use
Akismet (Automattic)
When: Only if the Akismet plugin is active on your site.
What is sent: Question text and submitter fields Akismet expects for a spam check, per Akismet’s API.
- Akismet Terms of Service
- Automattic Privacy Policy
WhoKnew Shield Pro (optional)
When: Only if WhoKnew Shield Pro is installed, licensed, and the bot-report API is available — used to report honeypot catches (IP and plugin source metadata).
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