In Question2Answer, there’s no built-in way for admins to broadcast important information to users.
Posting a question works initially, but the post soon gets buried as new questions arrive.
Using blog posts and marking them as featured is another workaround, but:
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too many featured posts reduces visibility,
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and minor announcements like “Site maintenance on 31st December 2025 to 2nd January 2026” don’t fit well as featured content.
Hence, Gateoverflow developed a plugin for that purpose. This plugin allows admins to create notices that appear prominently in the sidebar as a scrolling widget.
Notices remain visible to the selected type of audience regardless of new posts and don’t clutter the question or blog lists.
Audience Types
| Audience |
Meaning |
| Public |
Visible to everyone |
| Min. user level |
Visible only to logged users with required level |
| Specific users |
Only to selected user handles |
Live exmple of working of the plugin can be seen on https://gateoverflow.in/. Interested people can download the plugin from: https://github.com/GATEOverflow/q2a-notice
