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Community Answers

Community Answers is a modern Q&A community component for Joomla 6. It helps site owners build support communities, product knowledge bases, education communities, and expert networks where members can ask questions, post answers, vote, follow discussions, start bounties, and mark the best answer.

Version 7 is a major rewrite. The frontend is powered by React, while routing, permissions, menu items, categories, tags, editors, and access control continue to use Joomla.

What You Can Build​

  • Product support communities where customers help each other.
  • Public knowledge bases with searchable questions and accepted answers.
  • Internal team Q&A spaces with Joomla access levels and permissions.
  • Reward-driven communities with bounties, points, reputation, and leaderboards.
  • Moderated communities with flags, audit logs, and admin review workflows.

Key Features​

  • Question feed with filters for newest, active, bountied, unanswered, and most voted questions.
  • Question detail page with voting, answers, comments, accepted answers, follow, bookmark, share, flagging, edit, and delete actions.
  • Ask question workflow with Joomla categories, Joomla editor support, Joomla core tags, and duplicate question suggestions.
  • Joomla SEF URLs generated by the component router, including compatibility paths for legacy question/category URLs.
  • Tags, search, user directory, user profiles, leaderboard, bounty board, notifications, and notification preferences.
  • Configurable themes, density, toolbar, left menu, right sidebar blocks, and answer card styling.
  • Semantic ca-* CSS classes for template-level overrides without depending on Tailwind utility classes.
  • Bounty system with configurable amounts, durations, expiry handling, connected points balance, and automatic awards when answers are accepted.
  • In-app and email notifications with editable email templates.
  • Moderation queue, flag rules, audit log, and frontend moderation actions.
  • Shondalai Core integrations for profile links, avatars, points, activity streams, and external badge providers such as Rewardify.
  • Modern Joomla plugin events for third-party developers, with legacy Community Answers event aliases.

Joomla Integration​

Community Answers uses Joomla services where they matter most:

  • Categories are Joomla categories for com_communityanswers.
  • Tags use Joomla core tags.
  • The ask form uses the configured Joomla editor.
  • Permissions use Joomla ACL, including component and category-level permissions.
  • URLs are generated by Joomla routes instead of hard-coded React-only paths.
  • Companion modules are standard Joomla modules that can be published in any template position.

Main Frontend Pages​

  • Question feed
  • Question detail
  • Ask question
  • Bounty board
  • Tags and tag detail
  • Search
  • Users directory
  • User profile and my profile
  • Leaderboard
  • Notifications and notification preferences
  • Moderation queue for authorized users

Admin Tools​

The administrator area includes dashboards and tools for questions, replies, comments, categories, tags, bounties, moderation, users, reputation, audit logs, settings, and email templates. Badge rules and awards are managed by Rewardify or another connected badge provider, not by Community Answers itself.

Next Steps​

Start with installing and configuring Community Answers, then review the bounty setup guide, companion modules guide, and plugin events guide.