7 Best Question and Answer WordPress Themes

The Internet is a massive resource of knowledge and information where you can find the answers to most questions if you look hard enough. But, sometimes there are situations where you may require local knowledge or an expert to answer a question or query.

Thankfully there are websites that can be visited where you users can ask the community their thoughts and opinions on a specific topic. People answer the questions in return for membership points, rewards or just to promote themselves as an expert in that field. Thanks to a small handful of WordPress developers, you can now have your own question and answers website built on WordPress.

Whether you want to create a niche question and answers website or simply want to add Q&A functionality to an existing site, this small collection of WordPress themes offer question and answer functionality that will be suitable for most Q&A websites.

A good question and answers WordPress theme should have a strong focus on community features. At the very least, users should be able to register, submit questions, answer questions and receive membership points or rewards that encourage user participation. All of the themes below offer the above Q&A functionality, with some themes offering a more comprehensive solution.

If you want a question and answers website like Yahoo! Answers, Quora, StackOverflow or Askville, these Q&A WordPress themes are a very good place to start.

This community-based theme helps promote contributor presence on your site, which in turn encourages the community to share their knowledge. A variety of features such as a point scoring system, up and down voting, best answers, user badges and a built-in polling system make the QAEngine theme our personal favourite in this Q&A theme collection.

For webmasters wanting to monetise their website there is also a handy pump plan feature, which offers different pricing plans for users to promote their questions. You can collect payment via most popular payment gateways and set a custom price for each plan – a brilliant feature for niche question and answer websites.

The theme is highly configurable, beautifully designed and packed full of functionality; making the QAEngine theme a great choice for any webmaster wanting to build a question and answer website.

Price: $89

If the bright bold colours aren’t for you, the theme can be easily configured with a variety of pre-packed colour schemes. The custom colour picker tool on the theme’s admin panel gives website administrators the ability to take full control and change every element, link and button to create their own template as they see necessary.

The Ask Me Theme comes with a variety of features including: profile pages, favourite answers, polls, badges and a point system that aids user engagement and interaction.

Ask Me is fully responsive and works extremely well across desktop, tablet and mobile devices. It also comes with Woocommerce support for users who want to sell products on their website.

Price: $59

The theme comes with a “one click” install feature built-in. Once you activate the theme, click the install button and it will recreate the theme demo exactly, importing all necessary settings, menus and posts.

The theme has a variety of features and functionality including: voting on answers, custom registration forms, language translation, best answers, a user dashboard and a variety of widgets such as a header advert, login box, subscription widget, testimonials and top users widget.

Theme owners can also charge users a fee for submissions. The Answers theme easily integrates with PayPal, so if you want to run a commercial Q&A website you can with ease.

With seven colour schemes, a modern design and an extremely affordable price tag, Answers theme from Templatic is a popular choice for webmasters wanting a basic Questions and Answers website.

Price: $29

The theme’s options page lets site administrators upload a logo, favicon, change all the theme colours, font size and family, handle reputation points, customise main navigation and set the minimum and maximum number of characters that users can enter. It’s extremely easy to configure and you can customise the website in a matter of minutes without any knowledge of CSS or HTML.

Users can collect reputation points that go up and down, there is a built in voting system, spam reporting, answer commenting, front-end user profile editor and reputation management system. The theme is very well documented and the theme developers offer round the clock support in-case you get stuck.

Price: $49

The design is fully responsive and will fit any browser that your site is being viewed on. It’s fairly basic and could do with some improvement, but with the use of a child theme, more advanced developers have a great framework to work upon if they want to change the current look and feel of the theme.

Robust Q&A has a lot of built in features including best answers, comments on answers, likes, content reporting, user ranking, a points system and a leaderboard to show off your most active users.

Although, in our opinion, not the most extravagant theme, Robust Q&A can serve as a great platform to build upon, as all the features and functionality are already built in that a popular question and answer website requires.

Price: $49

This Q&A theme comes with 7 different colour schemes that can be changed with the click of a button. There is also a useful theme options page allowing for further configuration, a variety of page templates and a number of shortcodes you can use to replicate theme functionality throughout your site.

The only downfall with AskIt, is that its design is not mobile responsive. It’s not the end of the world, but with the recent popularity of mobile browsing, it doesn’t give this Q&A theme that important mobile factor that a lot of users now want and expect from a high quality website.

Price: $69

The theme has a variety of page templates including: user login, sign up, forgot password, my account, member profile and an edit profile page template. A star rating system, custom avatars for users, popular questions and a point-based system are also built-in to the theme.

Administrators can choose from 3 colour schemes, upload a logo, include an analytics tag and add advertising banners via the simple theme options page.

Although Instant Q&A has a simple and unresponsive design, it has all the features that you would expect a questions and answers WordPress theme to come with.

Price: $44