WordPress Questions and Answers (CMA) - Shortcodes - Shortcode List and Explanation

Using Shortcodes

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The WordPress Questions and Answers lets you insert dynamic content on your WordPress website posts or pages by using the plugin's shortcodes. Note that they are always written between brackets [ ] and are case-sensitive.

The up-to-date list of all shortcode can be found in the plugin admin menu. 

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Supported Shortcodes in Detail

[cma-questions]

Use: Shows the questions table.

Filtering parameters:

• author - ID of the question author (default: empty) [Question only]
• limit - number of questions per page to display, default is 5
• contributor - ID of the question author or user who has answered for the question (default: empty) [Question only]
• cat - a slug of a category (multiple categories should be separated by commas) (default: empty)
• answered - show only unanswered (0) or only answered (1) questions. Default: empty (all questions).
• resolved - show only unresolved (0) or only resolved (1) questions. Default: empty (all questions).
• subtree - limit the categories filter options only to subcategories of the current category given by the cat parameter (default: 0)
• tag - a slug of a tag (multiple tag should be separated by commas) (default: empty). Don't confuse with the tags attribute

View parameters:

• ajax - enable or disable AJAX support (default: 1)
• sort - one of the following: newest, hottest, views, votes (default: newest)
• form - add "question form" (default: 0)
• formontop - display the question form above the questions table (default: 0)
• dateposted - display the thread posted date (default: 0)
• showcontent - display the question's content below the title when showcontent=1 or fragment when showcontent=fragment (default: 0)
• search - add "search form" above list (default: 1)
• pagination - show pagination (default: 1)
• hidequestions - hides the question list (default: 0)
• votes - show the number of votes (default: 1)
• views - show the number of views (default: 1)
• answers - show the number of answers (default: 1)
• updated - show the information about question's last update (default: 1)
• authorinfo - show the information about the question's author (default: 1)
• statusinfo - show the information about the question's status (default: 0)
• tags - show questions' tags (default: 1). Don't confuse with the tag attribute
• navbar - show the full navigation bar (default: 0)
• sortbar - show the sorting bar (default: 0)
• scrollaftersearch - scroll to the top of the container after loaded new subpage (default: 1)
• categorybeforetitle - show category before question title (default: 0)
• showanswer - show the recent answer under the question title (default: 0)
• metaposition - display views, votes and answers box on the left side (0) or on the right side (1) (default: 0)

Example

[cma-questions limit="10" author="123" sort="hottest" form="1"]

Example

The forum category shortcode  [cma-questions cat="tooltipglossary" form="1" navbar="0" views="0" votes="0" updated="0" answers="0"]  will result in:

[cma-index]

Use: Shows the questions table. Works the same as the [cma-questions] but has different default values that come from the Index page settings.

[cma-my-questions]

Use: Shows current user's questions, in the same way, it's displayed on the contributor's page. It supports the same parameters as the [cma-questions] shortcode.

[cma-favorite-questions]

Use: Shows only the questions favorited by the current user. Effectively, the same as [cma-questions favorite="1"]

[cma-answers]

Use: Shows the answers table

Filtering parameters:

• author - ID of the answer author, it's required. If no author is specified, the shortcode will not return anything
• limit - number of results per page to display, default is 5

View parameters:

• ajax - enable or disable AJAX support (default: 1)

[cma-my-answers]

Use: Shows current user's answers in the same way it's displayed on the contributor's page.

Supported parameters:

• ajax - Enable AJAX support so clicking on the question won't reload the current page.
• limit - Set the amount of answers that can be displayed on the page. Note: this parameter was introduced in version 4.5.5.

Example 1:

[cma-my-answers ajax]

Example 2:

[cma-my-answers limit="3"]

[cma-categories]

Use: Shows the categories table.

Parameters

• questions - shows the number of questions
• unanswered - shows unanswered questions number
• answers - shows the number of answers
• follow - adds the Follow/Unfollow button for each category
• header - shows table header
• parent - shows only subcategories of given parent category (slug or ID)

Sample

Example

[cma-categories questions=1 answers=1 follow=1 header=1 unanswered=1 parent=category experts=0]

[cma-categories-list]

Use: Shows the categories list

Parameters

• view - write "accordion" to show the accordion view. 

Example

[cma-categories-list]

[cma-categories-list view="accordion"]

[cma-followed]

Use: Shows current user's followed threads and categories.

Parameter: 

• author - Displays followed questions posted by a certain author only. The parameter accepts the author's ID as a value. By default, the value is "empty". Note: this paramater was introduced in version 4.7.0.

All followed threads: 

[cma-followed]

Followed threads posted by a certain author (which user ID is "3", for example): 

[cma-followed author="3"]

[cma-question-form]

Use: Shows the question form

Parameters:

• cat - (optional) category's slug or term ID that the question will be posted to.
• title - show title or not. Values: 0 or 1, default is 0.
• backlink - show the backlink or not. Values: 0 or 1, default is 1.
• loginform - show the login form for logged out users. Values: 0 or 1, default is 0.
• expert - (optional) set pre-defined expert's ID that the question will be assigned to. Note: this parameter was introduced in version 4.6.4 and is related to the Answers Experts Add-on version 2.1.1 or higher. Learn more about this parameter in this guide: Answers Experts (CMA) - Shortcodes

[cma-board]

Use: Shows questions divided by categories.

Parameters:

• showquestions - whether to show the questions. Values are 0 or 1, default is 1.
• questionslimit - limit number of questions.

[cma-get-param-author]

Use: Returns "author" parameter from URL. E.g. if the URL is/custom-user-page/?author=123, the shortcode will return 123. 

May be used combined with the  [cma-questions] or [cma-answers] shortcodes in order to create a custom contributor's page.

Examples

[cma-questions author="[cma-get-param-author]"]

[cma-answers author="[cma-get-param-author]"]

[cma-delete]

Use: Displays a link that allows the user to delete all questions and answers.

[cma-questions-count] 

Use: Returns the number of question of one or more categories.

Parameters

• cat (optional) -  count number of answers from this category. Supports ID and slug.

  Use multiple IDs to show sum of answers of many categories. If "cat" is not specified, the shortcode will count the questions in all categories.

Examples

[cma-questions-count]

[cma-questions-count cat="1"]

The categories cat1 and cat2 have [cma-questions-count cat="cat1,cat2"] questions in total

[cma-question-expert-info]

Use: Returns the expert info. Optionally, it includes an avatar screenshot and name.

Parameters

• avatar - Include avatar screenshot (1) or don't include (0). Default is 0
• name - Include avatar (1) or don't include (0). Default is 1

Example

[cma-question-expert-info avatar="1" name="1"]

Attaching YouTube and Vimeo clips

To attach a YouTube or Vimeo clip to the thread, just put the URL in brackets. 

Example 

[https://youtu.be/Zkdf3kaso]

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