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AnsPress

Question and answer community plugin for WordPress

Forums & Community Archived ★ 295 stars Easy setup GPL-3.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained forums & community alternative.

AnsPress is an open-source question-and-answer community plugin for WordPress that turns a site into a Q&A forum. It supports voting, best-answer selection, reputation, and tag-based organization.

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Key features

  • Q&A inside WordPress
  • Voting and best answers
  • Reputation system
  • Tag-based topics

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in PHP
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is AnsPress secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for AnsPress's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

AnsPress replaces

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