Question2Answer Plugin: On-Site-Notifications

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Description

Facebook-like / Stackoverflow-like notifications on your Question2Answer forum that can replace all email-notifications.

Features

• users get notifications about the following events: incoming answer, incoming comment, question was up- or downvoted, answer was up- or downvoted, answer got selected as best, incoming private message
• yellow notify bubble on top next to the username
• easy to use for all your users
• notification box shows new events and also events of last 100 days (specify days in plugin options)
• notifies on: incoming answer, incoming comment, best answers and upvotes
• lightweight plugin that does not need any extra server resources
• available languages: de, en, fr, lt

Do something good for your users and improve their usability experience in your forum!

See demo video here. Or try it out in the q2apro forum.

Installation

See quick video tutorial for installation or follow these steps:

• Download the plugin as ZIP from github or from the q2apro plugin page.
• Make a full backup of your q2a database before installing the plugin.
• Extract the folder q2apro-on-site-notifications from the ZIP file.
• Move the folder q2apro-on-site-notifications to the qa-plugin folder of your Q2A installation.
• Use your FTP-Client to upload the folder q2apro-on-site-notifications into the qa-plugin folder of your server.
• Navigate to your site, go to Admin -> Plugins and check if the plugin "On-Site-Notifications" is listed.
• Change the plugin options if you like.
• Congratulations, your new plugin has been activated!

Disclaimer

The code 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.

Copyright

All code herein is OpenSource. Feel free to build upon it and share with the world.

Final Note

If you use the plugin:

• Visit www.q2apro.com to get more free and premium plugins.
• Translate the plugin into your language and send us the language file.
• Say thank you by donating 5 to 10 USD to the developers.

Have fun!