WordPress Questions and Answers (CMA) - Getting Started - General Plugin Settings

Getting Started - General Plugin Settings

Getting started with the WordPress Questions and Answers begins with making decisions about how your WordPress discussion forum will operate and appear. You can take that first step by navigating to the Admin Dashboard → CM Answers Pro → Settings and then clicking the General tab.

Navigation to the plugin general settings - WordPress Q and A Plugin — Navigation to the plugin general settings

This guide is broken down in different pages to make reading easier:

General Settings - Read below.
SEO Features - Read the specific guide.
Adding a Disclaimer - Read the specific guide.
Referral - Read the specific guide.
Logs and Statistics - Read the specific guide.
Geolocation - Read the specific guide.

General Settings

General plugin settings - Discussion Forum Plugin for WordPress — General plugin settings

Answers permalink - Optionally, choose to replace the default “/answers” permalink with any other slug. Learn more about permalinks
Categories URL part - Optionally, choose the default categories part of the default URL pattern. Learn more about permalinks
Set as homepage - Set the questions listings as your website’s homepage.
Include the category to the question URL - Enable it if you want a category slug to be included to the questions permalink. If the question doesn't belong to any category, then it's category slug will be "uncategorized". Note: this option was introduced in version 4.7.0.

When the option is disabled:

Example of a question permalink without a category slug in it

When the option is enabled and the question belongs to a category:

Example of a category slug included into a question permalink

When the option is enabled and the question doesn't belong to any category:

Example of a category slug in a pemalink of a question that doesn't belong to any category
Add a rel="nofollow" attribute to links - Makes all links inside the forum "nofollow". This feature is mostly related to SEO. When a link is nofollow, search engines (such as Google or Bing) will not use it to influence the link's ranking in their index.
Add “Answers” to the navigation menu - Keep in mind that you can only do this if you have the “wp_nav_menu” trigger as part of your Template.
Disable the “Answers” page - If this option is enabled, accessing the answers page will result in an error message. This can be useful in cases when the WordPress Questions and Answers plugin is being used exclusively with supported shortcodes and the admin wants to prevent the display of the general answers page.
Ajax
- Auto-create the AJAX page - If enabled, a page with the index will be created automatically if not found. The index page is a simple page with the shortcode [cma-index] - learn more about how to configure it by reading the guide WordPress Questions and Answers (CMA) - Theme - Index Page.
- Enable AJAX call on filters - Makes filter selections seamless (the page won't have to reload). Note: This option was introduced in version 4.0.7.
  
  Using AJAX call on forum filters in action
- Enable AJAX call on question - If enabled, then questions will open with Ajax call (the page won't have to reload).
  
  Using AJAX call on forum questions in action
- Enable AJAX support on contributor page - This option allows you to disable AJAX support on contributors pages. By default, the option is enabled. If this option is enabled, when users click on a category or difficulty level on a contributor page, there will be loaded only question by the contributor page user. If the option is disabled, then clicking on a category or difficulty level on a contributor page will load questions by all contributors. Note: This option was introduced in version 4.6.3.
  
  Examples
  
  When the option is enabled, we can see the questions of a definite category by only one user:
  
  Using AJAX call on a contributor page
  
  When the option is disabled, we can see questions of a definite category by all users:
  
  Contributor page with AJAX call disabled
Enable cache system - If the option is enabled, the plugin will use a caching system for the index page. Note: This option was introduced in version 4.6.3.
Load assets conditionally - If the option is enabled, the plugin assets (CSS/JS) will only be loaded on pages with at least one plugin shortcode or on plugin-generated pages. Note: This option was introduced in version 4.7.0.

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