Have you seen the Ask Me Anything (AMA) service on some popular sites like Reddit, Tumblr, Quora, etc? Recently a user asked if it was possible to add it in WordPress. AMA allows users to ask you questions anonymously.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to add the Ask Me Anything (AMA) service on WordPress.

askmeanythingwp answer question service for WordPress

What is the Ask Me Anything Anonymously service?

Popular sites like Reddit and Quora sometimes host famous personalities on their websites to answer questions submitted by their users. Users on Reddit can also host their own questions.

Reddit-ama service

Tumblr also has a similar feature that allows blog owners to receive questions from their users.

Quora and Tumblr provide an option for users to ask questions anonymously. Anonymity allows users who do not want to reveal their identity to ask a question.

On your WordPress site, you can simply add a post or page where users can ask you questions in the comments. While users can use fake names to ask anonymous questions, it's not always encouraging.

In this tutorial, we will therefore show you how to easily add the service to your WordPress blog.

Ask Me Anything Anonymously for WordPress

The first thing you need to do is install and activate the plugin Ask Me Anything (Anonymously). For more details, see our step-by-step guide on way to install a WordPress plugin.

After activation, you need to visit the location “ Tools » Ask Me Anything »The page to generate the shortcode.

The plugin allows you to display an “Ask Me Anything” text box in an article, page or widget. You will need to create an article / page with the “Ask Me Anything” shortcode, even if you decide to display it in a sidebar widget.

Basically, the plugin uses WordPress comments for questions and answers, and all WordPress comments need to be associated with a post format.

Once you have created an article or page with the shortcode, you can configure the plugin options.

When you navigate to the article or page, you will see the “Ask Me Anything” feature.

Ask Me Anything interface

How to add Ask Me Anything in a widget

First, you'll need to create a WordPress post or page with the “Ask Me Anything” shortcode. Write down the page item ID, needed for the next page.

After that you need to navigate to the location " Tools »Ask Me Anything »And select the sidebar where you want to add it. then you can provide the article / page id.

ama-widget-shortcode shortcode generator

Once you are happy with the options, copy the shortcode and paste it into a text widget on the sidebar. You can do this by navigating to the location " Appearance »Widgets"

Ama-widget for WordPress

Then paste the shortcode inside the widget area and click on the save button to save your changes. You can now visit your site to see the plugin in action.

Amasidebarwidget ask me anything

Answers and moderations of the questions

User questions are stored in your database data WordPress like comments. You can simply visit the des page to see them.

You can answer a question by simply clicking on the answer link below the question. You can delete a question if you don't want it to appear on your site.

All questions will appear anonymously on your site. The approved questions and your answers to those questions appear as Ask Me Anything.

ama-qna preview questions

That's all, we hope this tutorial helped you to add anonymous question and answer functionality to your WordPress blog. You can also discover How to install Disqus on WordPress.

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