Question2Answer is a free platform for Question and Answer sites.

What is a Question and Answer site?

A Q&A site helps your online community to share knowledge. No matter what your area of interest, people with questions can get super answers fast. The Q2A Q&A is an obvious example, and here are just some of the 100s of other sites already using Q2A.

Why offer Q&A to my community?

One. Your members will be amazed by how quickly they get answers, and will come back to your site more regularly.

Two. Many web searches are questions, so Q&A content is very search-engine friendly. Question2Answer has SEO built in.

In short, Q&A helps you grow your profile in your niche.

Isn't Q&A just like an online forum?

Great question! It's true that much of the conversation in traditional online forums consists of questions and answers.

But forums were not designed for this purpose. They are structured as topics and posts, not questions and answers. People often have to read through a truckload of content (much of which is irrelevant) to find the answer they need.

Unlike forums, Question2Answer was built from scratch to help people get their questions answered quickly and easily.

Question2Answer features

  • Five minutes (or less!) to install.
  • Easy styling with CSS themes.
  • Fast integrated search engine.
  • Points-based reputation management.
  • Categories and/or tags (with auto complete).
  • Email notifications and RSS support.
  • Voting, comments and follow-on questions.
  • Simple and secure admin interface.
  • PHP/MySQL scalable to 1,000,000+ posts.
  • Built-in user account management, or...
  • Single sign-on for existing sites.

License

Question2Answer is free to use and modify for Q&A sites which are accessible on the public world wide web. Details...

Requirements

  • PHP 4.3 or later, including PHP 5.
  • MySQL 4.1 or later, including MySQL 5.

Install Question2Answer

Version 1.2.1 was released on 29th July 2010 - view history.
After downloading, please read how to install or upgrade.