AnsPress – Question and answer vs Author Avatars List/Block

Zen Projects and Rahul have agreed to team up to bring substantial resources into the development of AnsPress and its related themes and extensions, read the full announcement here: https://anspress.net/blog/anspress-update-annoucement/ AnsPress is an open source, developer friendly, question and answer plugin for WordPress. AnsPress adds a full question and answer system to your existing WordPress site. It can be used to create a Q&A network similar to StackOverflow and Quora, or be a single page on existing site. The plugin supports multiple languages, shortcodes, reCAPTCHA, email and push notifications, and more. AnsPress is not just limited to questions and answers. It can be used in many different ways, like a bug tracker, an internal Q&A board, support ticket forum, FAQ, and more. Anspress is trusted and used by many popular companies and sites at scale. Performance and Optimizations: In our latest release, we’ve made big improvements to performance and have tested the plugin in many different server environments. It has run smoothly on every type of server with minimal impact on load times. AnsPress (including all of its functionalities) is very fast compared to other Q&A plugins. In the latest release we have made major improvements to reduce MySQL queries and to increase the page load speed for all page templates within the plugin. Developer Friendly: AnsPress is built with developers in mind and can easily be extended to fit your needs. All parts of the template layouts can be overridden. Our source code follows WP coding standards and is properly commented. We are working on a documentation site which will be available soon. Contributors: This plugin wouldn’t be possible without the huge amount of contributions we have received. Check our contributors at https://anspress.net/contributors/ Support and Demo: We provide support on our site: https://anspress.net/questions Our support section uses the actual version of AnsPress, so you can check out the support site if you want to see full working version. You can also take the demo site for a test drive at https://anspress.net/demo/ AnsPress Key Features: Submit / Filter / Order / Edit / Delete Question Answer / Comment Vote and Select Best Answer Notification Emails and Web Push Notifications 10+ languages supported Captcha supported Shortcodes available Private/Public for Question and Answer Ability to Follow Questions / Answers Featured (Sticky) Question Closed questions Flag/report questions and answers to moderator Basic user profile BuddyPress integration More to come… Free Add-ons: Reputations Tags Categories Bad words filter Email notifications reCaptcha Dynamic text avatar AnsPress is frequently updated and more features are added based on feedback from our users. This means you are welcome to give us feedback and suggestions as to what you would like to see or need in the plugin. Visit our Github project https://github.com/anspress/anspress or visit our community https://anspress.net/questions/ to get updates and leave feedback. Page Shortcodes Use this shortcode in the base page of AnsPress to work properly [anspress]

This plugin makes it easy to display lists of user avatars, grouped by user roles, on your (multiuser) site. It also allows you to insert single avatars for blog users or any email address into a post or page – great for displaying an image of someone you’re talking about. It makes use of built-in WordPress (core) functions to retrieve user information and get avatars. Integrates with: Gutenberg, BuddyPress, xprofile, Multisite, Wpmu, BBPress, co-authors. Avatar lists can be inserted into your sidebar by adding a widget or into posts/pages by using a shortcode. The plugin comes with a tinymce editor plugin which makes inserting shortcodes very easy. This also provides Gutenberg Block for use with the Gutenberg editor. Please help with the plugin Translations at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/author-avatars. Both the shortcode and widget and Gutenberg Block can be configured to: Show a custom title (widget only) Only show specific user groups and/or hide certain users Limit the number of users shown Change the sort order of users or show in random order Adjust the size of user avatars Optionally show a user’s name or biography Show users from the current blog, all blogs or a selection of blogs (on WPMU/Multisite) Group users by their blog (when showing from multiple blogs), and show the blog name above each grouping. Support users from Co-Author Plus, Ultimate Member, BBpress and BuddyPress (xprofile) Limit the number of avatars per page for large sets by adding a page_size to the shortcode e.g. “page_size=30” (shortcode only) Additionally, single user avatars can be inserted using the show_avatar shortcode and configured to: Adjust the size of the user avatar. Align the avatar left, centered or right. The Gutenberg Block support both single user avatars and role based selections of avatars Please report bugs and provide feedback in the wordpress support forum. Plugin support: In 2011, Ben stepped down as maintainer of the Plugin, handing over ownership to co-author Paul Bearne, who continues to provide support and drive the development of new features.