WordPress Questions and Answers (CMA) - Extras - WP Comments Integration

Replace WP Comments with WordPress Questions and Answers

Important: The Genesis theme By StudioPress is known to requires special tweaks. If you use this theme, check below for more information.

The WordPress Questions and Answers integrates with the default WordPress comments feature.

The administrator or editor is able to replace the default WP comments region which is displayed below the content of the page or post with a CM Answers forum widget.

Below is the default WP comment feature available on pages and posts:

Example of the default WP comment feature - WordPress Forum Plugin — Example of the default WP comment feature

Enabling WordPress Questions and Answers on Pages and Posts

To enable questions for a page, go to the Edit page view. The Discussion box will now have a new option Replace comments with the CM Answers category.

For each post/page, you can select an existing plugin category to replace default comments.

Replacing the standard comments feature in some certain category - WordPress Discussion Forum — Replacing the standard comments feature in some certain category

You can also create a new category of questions for your page.

Creating new category - WordPress Q and A Plugin — Creating new category

When a user posts his comment on a post or page, it will appear in that question category.

The questions form instead of the standard comments form - Discussion Forum Plugin for WordPress — The questions form instead of the standard comments form

All comments will be displayed in a default questions table.

Questions table instead of the standard comments list - WordPress Question and Answer Plugin — Questions table instead of the standard comments list

Controlling the Q&A Widget look and Feel

In the plugin settings under Appearance → Miscellaneous section you can define the shortcode which is used to control the look and feel of the comments widget.

To change the look and feel you can use any of the existing attributes for the shortcode to control this comments widget

Attributes for shortcode replacing default comments - If you replaced the default comments on a post or page, instead of default comments, the questions from the chosen category will be displayed using a shortcode with these attributes. You can use the same attributes as in the cma-questions shortcode.

Setting up the attributes for shortcode replacing default comments - WordPress Forum Plugin — Setting up the attributes for shortcode replacing default comments

Genesis Theme By StudioPress

The Genesis Theme is known to need a special settings change in order for the answers to properly replace WordPress comments.

The procedure is easy:

Head to Admin Dashboard → Genesis → Theme Settings.
Under Comments and Trackbacks, check Enable Comments "on pages".

Additional settings in the Genesis Theme
For each page that you don’t want comments, head to the the Discussion metabox and uncheck "Allow Comments".

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