Question2Answer Plugin: The heartbeat of your forum. Displays the newest incoming events on a page and within a widget.
- provides a liveticker page at yourforum.com/liveticker with all incoming questions, answers, comments and best answers
- all events are loaded each 30 seconds using Ajax, no HTML page reloads
- option to filter the liveticker to only questions | answers | comments | best answers
- filtering can be done by keys q a c b and e for emptying the list of events
- the browser tab displays the number of new events e.g. (3) Liveticker
- option to clear the liveticker
- mouse over a comment shows the comment text in a tooltip
- you also get a liveticker widget (to be placed in the sidebar) that shows the last 3 forum events
- control who can access the liveticker page (anybody, registered users, experts, admins)
- very engaging for existing and new users, let them follow your site and get addicted!
- easy installation, even for non-programmers
- available languages: en, fr, de
- Download the ZIP file.
- Make a full backup of your q2a database before installing the plugin.
- Extract the folder q2apro-liveticker from the ZIP file.
- Move the folder q2apro-liveticker to the qa-plugin folder of your Q2A installation.
- Use your FTP-Client to upload the folder q2apro-liveticker into the qa-plugin folder of your server.
- Navigate to your site, go to Admin -> Plugins and check if the plugin "Liveticker" is listed.
- Change the plugin settings to meet your needs, and save the changes.
- Congratulations, your new plugin can now be accessed at yourforum.com/liveticker
This is beta code. It is probably okay for production environments, but may not work exactly as expected. You bear the risk. Refunds will not be given!
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
All code herein is OpenSource. Feel free to build upon it and share with the world.