Is there a way to embed Q&A into a regular website, without having a seperate look and feel of a standalone site?

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That would be very helpful!!!

Answer 1

Depending on how deep you want the integration, there are several options:

1. For look and feel: create a custom theme and modify the CSS to fit in with the rest of your site.

2. For navigation: use an advanced custom theme and insert navigation links at the top or bottom as you see fit: http://www.question2answer.org/qa/704/how-can-we-add-one-more-tab

3. For user management: implement single sign-on, as documented in qa-external-users.php

I realize all of the above requires work, but it's not really technically viable to integrate with existing websites in any other way (unless they're running a standardized platform such as WordPress, in which case hopefully a future version will make this integration much easier).

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I was actually looking for it to live in a section of my site, maybe in an i=frame?

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With the RSS support coming in version 1.1, it should be easy to embed a feed (e.g. recent questions) with styling in an iframe. However it's hard to see how to do this with the entire Q&A functionality that Question2Answer provides - the functionality and content on the pages is too rich.

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Do we know when 1.1 is coming?

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Scheduled for release in July, hopefully the first beta towards the end of June.

Answer 2

Integrating Q&A is very easy.

Our main site is: http://www.Sporttipsworld.com ( still in beta )
Our forum is: http://www.Sporttipsworld.com/forum/
Our Q&A is: http://www.Sporttipsworld.com/tips/

Essentially, there are only 2 core files you need to play with, and of course the css