# Question Answer Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** deprecated
**Created:** [January 19, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032 "2017-01-19T16:43:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 8

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### Author: ![Majed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/majed/32/119522_2.png) [@Majed](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Majed)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/149 "2018-10-07T18:56:14Z")

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That’s correct, Its only happens with old posts. Thank you for the updates 👌. It solved the issue

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### Author: ![Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mahmoud_khalifa/32/117060_2.png) [@Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mahmoud_Khalifa)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/150 "2018-11-19T04:37:58Z")

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hello  
how to install the plugin could you please give some instruction of how to install it ?

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/151 "2018-11-19T15:02:06Z")

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Like any other plugin. Search “#howto install plugin”

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### Author: ![Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mahmoud_khalifa/32/117060_2.png) [@Mahmoud\_Khalifa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mahmoud_Khalifa)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/152 "2018-11-19T17:52:40Z")

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thanks installed it now

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### Author: ![Jose\_C\_Gomez](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jose_c_gomez/32/137297_2.png) [@Jose\_C\_Gomez](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jose_C_Gomez)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/153 "2018-11-26T13:50:27Z")

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There is an error of on this plugin after the latest update.  
When you visit the pending users message “One User Pending Approval” page the page won’t load (only half of the page) with this error. Disabling this plug in fixes the issue.  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/2/1202b6c94a75d5acd14b5040657595525a978e76.png)

```cs
_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:29446 TypeError: Cannot read property 'qa_one_to_many' of undefined
    at setupComponent (_plugin-third-party-78fff53bee08d5374d237bfb07d7389d9c8ce5a33187bf7b215086e104e0f160.js:69)
    at s.init (_application-80ee9fc6123d4a680c007646f102ba0abe0db9bfb9b32b60a347064dcf1d536e.js:47189)
    at s.n [as init] (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:50483)
    at new s (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:47842)
    at Function.u.create (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:48035)
    at e.create (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:14063)
    at n.create (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:24838)
    at _ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:11461
    at e.evaluate (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:11459)
    at e.next (_ember_jquery-07f49b58317ea9292d939348ec0091eb50a9d8aaabd9e86cc074ef5f049918aa.js:11710)

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/7/477503f558545412ebc5963e6e067f08c2cf810b.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/1/a11982683029c783e05ffae81de89535c0621cd4.png)

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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2018, 12:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/154 "2018-11-27T00:26:54Z")

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Thanks, fixed:

> <https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-question-answer/commit/2c3c49b7e9e312ac18ca3804bf811e51e1f2f680>

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/155 "2018-11-30T15:52:18Z")

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Did anything get broken in the Great FontAwesome upgrade?

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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/156 "2018-12-05T23:13:48Z")

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I pushed a few updates a little while ago and some more just today. It should be all A OK now.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/157 "2018-12-05T23:18:41Z")

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Thanks! I figured no news was good news and upgraded yesterday. I am aware of no ill effects, but I’ll do another update now.

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### Author: ![Hifihedgehog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hifihedgehog/32/140207_2.png) [@Hifihedgehog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hifihedgehog)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/158 "2018-12-15T11:42:01Z")

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Is there a way mark as solved can be enabled and disabled via tagging like this plugin and in tandem with it? [Given my forum’s directory structure](https://forum.techandtiny.com/), it would be unintuitive having to add a subcategory only for mark as solved topics. This plug-in, in my humble option, uses a much smarter approach than the mark as solved plug-in does. Hat’s off to the devs… If only it could replace it entirely…

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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/159 "2018-12-20T05:59:17Z")

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> [@Hifihedgehog](#):
>
> Is there a way mark as solved can be enabled and disabled via tagging like this plugin and in tandem with it?

Not currently. You could hire me to do it, or you could wait until I have some free time…(2020?)

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### Author: ![Hifihedgehog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hifihedgehog/32/140207_2.png) [@Hifihedgehog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hifihedgehog)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2018, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/160 "2018-12-30T02:08:06Z")

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Thanks. PM sent expressing my intent and interest.

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### Author: ![mymario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mymario/32/128492_2.png) [@mymario](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mymario)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2019, 11:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/161 "2019-01-05T11:19:22Z")

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Hi @angus, great plugin!

1. Vote counting  
If a user upvotes a post, does this count as a like?  
Since a lot of user reputation is tied to post liking, having these two go hand in hand seems to make sense.  
Maybe it is the case, but I could not figure it out.

2. String translations  
There are a number of strings that are not translated into German, such as “Answer” or “X person voted for this post”.  
How can I translate these strings into German?

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### Author: ![SMT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SMT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SMT)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/162 "2019-01-14T10:56:42Z")

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Hi,

Does it supports Google’s Q&A schema markup?

> **[Schema for Q&A Pages (QAPage) | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  | ...](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/qapage)**
>
> Q&A pages contain data in a question and answer format. Follow these guidelines to learn how use Q&A schema markup for Google Search.

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### Author: ![jrgong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jrgong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrgong)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/163 "2019-02-06T07:13:59Z")

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After the new 2.2 update it has become more complicated to change the fill colors of the SVG icons via CSS.

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In my case I made the Comment button bg color same as all my other reply buttons.  
Does anyone have a suggestion how to adjust the fill color of the svg icon in an easy way?

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### Author: ![FoohonPie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/foohonpie/32/119648_2.png) [@FoohonPie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/FoohonPie)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/164 "2019-02-08T22:40:30Z")

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I’m running into a UI issue: my users keep creating new answers in response to other answers, I assume because they don’t realize they should be using the “Comment” button instead.

This is understandable given that they’re used to using “Reply” everywhere else, and probably don’t notice the button says “Answer” instead, especially as the arrow icon is the same.

Would it make sense to style the “Comment” to look more like “Reply”, and changing “Answer” to maybe use a different color and/or changing the icon to something that Reply doesn’t also use?

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### Author: ![SMT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SMT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SMT)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/165 "2019-02-11T10:06:29Z")

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We have a parent category having 496 subcategories. Now the thing is how do I enable q&a for this 496 subcategories??

I tried enabling q&a format on the main category but it doesn’t change anything for subcategories.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/166 "2019-02-11T13:14:20Z")

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Well, you should see [It’s Time We Talked About Tags](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/10/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/).

But if you have address to the rails console you could do it with a couple lines of ruby.

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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/167 "2019-02-11T22:38:45Z")

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Sorry for the neglect here!

> [@mymario](#):
>
> Counting of votes  
> If a user upvotes a post, does this count then as a like?  
> Since a lot of the user reputation is coupled with post liking, having these two go hand in hand seems to make sense.  
> Maybe it is the case but I could not figure it out.

There’s no connection between upvotes and likes.

> [@mymario](#):
>
> There are a number of strings which are not translated into German such as “Answer” or “X person voted for this post”.  
> How can I translate these strings into German?

You can submit a translation to the transifex project for this plugin: [https://www.transifex.com/civically/discourse-question-answer](https://www.transifex.com/civically/discourse-question-answer)

> [@SMT](#):
>
> Does it supports Google’s Q&A schema markup?
> 
> [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/qapage](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/qapage)

Not yet, but this is a good candidate for the next work item.

> [@jrgong](#):
>
> In my case I made the Comment button bg color same as all my other reply buttons.  
> Does anyone have a suggestion how to adjust the fill color of the svg icon in an easy way?

You can use css as normal, e.g.

 ![11%20AM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/8/88d093fd5c9b2ed269da4f73da5d77817d1149c8.png)

> [@FoohonPie](#):
>
> Would it make sense to style the “Comment” to look more like “Reply”, and changing “Answer” to maybe use a different color and/or changing the icon to something that Reply doesn’t also use?

Yup, definitely worth a shot. You can add this CSS in a theme to test it out. Let me know if you need help with that. Maybe if you could try it out, see if it works then if it improves the real world use, I’ll update the core plugin too.

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### Author: ![jrgong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jrgong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrgong)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 9:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/168 "2019-02-12T09:43:45Z")

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> [@FoohonPie](#):
>
> Would it make sense to style the “Comment” to look more like “Reply”, and changing “Answer” to maybe use a different color and/or changing the icon to something that Reply doesn’t also use?

+1 from my side! I totally agree and want to use it in same fashion

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