We are pleased to announce the new update of DW Q&A 1.4.0 today. It’s available to download or update for Free via your WordPress Dashboard.
We’d like to take this chance to thank you to all of you who spend time and huge efforts to help us test this beta release – DW Q&A version 1.4.0. Below are notable improvements and tweaks we implemented to make DW Q&A better with various performance optimization.
Core Performance Improvements
This is one of the most significant improvements in this release. In the question listing page, we have replaced the old filter solution using ajax with a new solution via WP_Query. We also omitted some queries and filters which were known as the cause for slowness while listing questions.
Template Structure Updates
Previous versions of DW Question & Answer see a pretty simple style. We’ve rewritten the entire structure of the DW Question & Answer’ s template, so we highly recommend you use new these new template files to take advantage of the latest features. We also had the entire functions optimized; in each template file, instead of deploying too many PHP functions, we use “add_action” snippet to allow you integrate DW Q&A quickly and easily into your themes. Below are some samples of DW Q&A when it’s integrated into different themes.
Add Questions Listing By Author page
In older versions, for all user links on the listing page or single question, we point the author’s links to author’s post URLs. However in version 1.4.0, we have replaced and turn the author link as a filter when you click on it. This way allows you to see all the questions asked by that user or all questions that user follows.
Optimize Questions & Answers Editing
Again in the version prior to 1.4.0, when you click Edit Question/ Answer, we replace content with a form where you can modify your questions/answers. However, we extend this further in version 1.4.0 which directs to a new path, the reason behind this approach is to enable you to flexibly edit not only question/answer content but also extra info like title, category, and tag. Comment edit feature remains directed to comment edit via the dashboard.
Add Breadcrumbs
Some pages in DW Question & Answer are shown based on the filter criteria. So breadcrumbs built in some typical plugins like Yoast SEO, Breadcrumb Nav could not detect these pages. To resolve this drawback, we have created native breadcrumbs for DW Question & Answer. You can also integrate this feature with the other breadcrumbs plugin if you like to enhance navigation system your ways.
Improve ‘Subscribe Question’ Feature
‘Subscribe’ feature (known as Follow) allows the subscriber to receive notifications once new answers added to such thread. We enhance this feature further, allow users who add comments or answer such question will be set by default to ‘subscribe’ that question (no longer needs an extra step to subscribe). To stop receiving notifications, you simply ‘unsubscribe’ the question at your choice.
Simplify the question status
We set 3 default status: Open, Resolved, and Closed. The old status ‘Pending’ and ‘Re-open’ will be marked as ‘Open’. We aim at making the question category more simple and make the filter ease to follow.
That’s it, all new improvements in this 1.4.0 release. Hope you enjoy. Please do share with us any feedback or feature request you might have for DW Q&A.