Question2Answer

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in Online Community Platforms

Free to practise onyes
Free trialnot on record
Well documentedyes
Runs where you worknot on record

Runs on self-hosted, Web.

Question2Answer is ranked #13 of 54 in online community platforms on The Geeks Club. It runs on Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan.

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Question2Answer Free Open-source Q&A software for PHP/MySQL · Requires PHP 5.4+ with MySQLi and MySQL 5.0+ question2answer.org · 7 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Moderation tools: advanced
Direct messaging: Yes
Custom domain: Yes
Mobile apps: web app

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What it does: Question2Answer is an open-source Q&A platform for online communities, where members can ask questions and share answers.
License: The software is free and open source under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
Q&A features: Features include integrated search, categories or tags, voting, comments, follow-on and closed questions, reputation points, RSS, email notifications and personal news feeds.
Accounts and roles: Built-in account management supports experts, editors, moderators and admins, along with avatars, custom fields, private messages and public wall posts.
Customization: The site describes CSS themes, translation, custom sidebars, widgets, pages and links, plus plugins for deeper customization.
Integrations: Question2Answer offers out-of-the-box WordPress and Joomla integration, and custom single sign-on support for other sites.
WordPress integration: The WordPress integration can use the WordPress site and user database, with Q&A data stored in separate tables in the same MySQL database.
Security: The documentation says Q2A checks or escapes user input to prevent SQL injection, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and form spoofing attacks.
Spam controls: The product page lists captchas, moderation and flagging as ways to combat spam.
Requirements: The product page lists PHP 5.4 or later with the MySQLi extension and MySQL 5.0 or later as requirements.
SEO: The product page lists XML sitemap support and neat URLs as SEO features.
Support: The service page says the Question2Answer Q&A site provides free community support and lists a Discord channel for chatting about Q2A.
Creator: The product page credits Gideon Greenspan and contributors with creating Question2Answer.
Release: The product page identifies version 1.8.8 as released on July 25, 2023.
Price from: Free

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Best Online Community Platforms in 2026#13 of 54

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question2answer.org· checked 7 Oct 2026
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