WP-Answers Support Forums

1. Installation
2. Theme Options
3. General Settings
4. Facebook Connect
5. Twitter Oauth
6. Advertising Management
7. Reported Posts
8. Edit User's Points
9. Auto Posting Settings
10. Post Now
11. Welcome Mail

1. Installation

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Once your purchase is complete, download the zip file and unzip it on your computer.

You will see 2 folders, plugin and themes.

Within the plugin folder, you will see a folder called "WP-Answers-Pro"
Using an FTP program, upload this to http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/plugins/

Within the themes folder, you will see 6 folders, these are your themes.
Using an FTP program, upload these to http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/

Now login to your WordPress installation, Click "Plugins" from the left sidebar.
Where you see "Wp Answers Pro" click activate.

Now choose "Appearance" > "Themes" and activate the colored theme that you require.

You will now have 2 new sidebar menu items "WP-Answers" which is the plugin options and "WP Answers Theme" which is the theme options.

2. Theme Options

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Select "WP Answers Theme" > "Options" from the side menu.
Here you can upload a custom logo, a custom favicon, Google Analytics tracking code, Your FeedBurner Feed Url and some "About" text for your about page.

3. General Settings

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Select "WP Answers" from the side menu to load the plugin admin section.

In General Settings, you can enter how many points you would like your members to receive for :
Asking a Question
Answering a Question
Being selected as the best answer

You can also select the amount of sidebar adverts.

You can also enter your Yahoo Answers API key here (this is required for the autoposting feature)
To signup for an API, visit http://developer.yahoo.com/answers

4. Facebook Connect

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Facebook connect allows people to sign in to your site using their Facebook login and will post any questions or answers they make to their Facebook wall, if they choose to do so.

To allow Facebook Logins, follow these steps :

1. Visit Facebook to create and API key here : http://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php?version=new

2. Enter a Descriptive Name for your app in the about section

3. Select "Website" from left menu and enter your WP-Answers URL with trailing slash

4. Enter your domain name

5. Click "Save Changes"

6. Copy the displayed API Key and Secret into the form in the WP Answers admin.

5. Twitter Oauth

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Twitter Oauth allows people to sign in with their Twitter details and will post their questions and answers to their twitter profile.

To allow twitter Logins, follow these steps :

1. Create a Twitter App here : http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

2. Fill Out Details, choose "Browser" for application type

3. Callback url should be your WP-Answers url

4. Default Access type should be read & Write

5. Enter Consumer key & Consumer Secret

6. Select "My Access Token" on right menu

7. Enter Access Token and Access Token Secret

6. Advertising Management

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Advertising management is split into 2 parts :
Manage 125*125 Ads and Manage New Contextual Adverts

Click "New 125*125 ad"
You can now enter the url for your advert and either upload a 125px x 125px banner or link to one remotely.
Click save changes and this will be added to your sidebar adverts.

Click "New Contextual Adverts"
You can now enter your google adsense code or other advertising code.
Enter a name for your advert and from the drop down box, choose a position for it.
There are 8 positions built in to the theme.

7. Reported Posts

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If a user reports a post from the site, they will show up here allowing you the option to delete the offending answer.

8. Edit User's Points

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This will allow you to manually edit any member's points.

9. Auto Posting Settings

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Select "New Auto Posting Campaign"

At the top "Campaign Name" is what you will call this auto-posting rule, beneath it "Search Term" is what will actually be searched for on Yahoo Answers.

Fill out both of those and then choose from the dropdown box : UK, USA or Canada, this is which country-specific Yahoo Answers site will be used.

Now enter how often to auto-post this particular search term, for new sites I keep each rule to around 10 hours.

Choose which category for the posts to go in, and the post status (I always use "publish" but you can use pending or draft if you want to double check the posts before they go live).

Click "Save Changes" and you have created a rule.

Note:
It is recommended to use search terms with multiple words instead of just a one word search term.
Also, check at http://answers.yahoo.com that your chosen search term has results for it.

10. Post Now

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If you would like to add some content when you like, you can use the "Post Now" option.
Tick the box next to the keywords you like to add, enter a number and click "Post Now"
You will then be informed how many successfull posts were added.

11. Welcome Mail

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This is where you can edit the email that is sent out to members when they register on your site.
You can use the following codes within it :

{%username%}
{%sitename%}
{%password%}
{%sitelink%}