Community Answers 7 is now available.
This is the biggest update to Community Answers in years. It is a full rewrite for Joomla 6, with a new frontend, cleaner administration, better moderation, bounties, notifications, profiles, and a more polished user experience.
The goal was simple: keep the Joomla foundation that site owners already trust, and build a modern Q&A experience on top of it.
Community Answers still works the Joomla way. It uses Joomla categories, Joomla tags, Joomla editors, Joomla permissions, Joomla menus, and Joomla SEF URLs. Existing communities can move forward without losing the structure that already works for them.
What is new
Community Answers 7 includes a new question feed with filters for newest, active, bountied, unanswered, and most-voted questions.
The question detail page has been rebuilt with better answer cards, comments, voting, accepted answers, follow, bookmark, share, flag, edit, and delete actions.
The ask question form now supports Joomla categories, the Joomla editor, Joomla core tags, attachments, and duplicate question suggestions. This helps users ask better questions and reduces repeated topics.
The bounty system is now a complete workflow. Users can start bounties, see their available balance, track active bounties, and award points when an answer is accepted.
There are also new user pages, profile pages, and a leaderboard. These help bring attention to useful members and make the community feel more active.
Notifications are now part of the component. Community Answers supports in-app notifications, notification preferences, and editable email templates.
Moderation is stronger too. Version 7 includes a flag queue, audit logs, review actions, and permission checks for moderators.
Built for Joomla 6
Community Answers 7 is built for Joomla 6 and PHP 8.2 or later.
The frontend uses a modern React app, but the component still respects Joomla routing, Joomla ACL, Joomla categories, Joomla tags, and Joomla menu items.
This means your Q&A pages can look and feel modern while still fitting into a Joomla site properly.
Designed for real communities
Community Answers can be used for:
- Product support communities
- Public knowledge bases
- Education Q&A sites
- Expert communities
- Internal team help desks
- Reward-based communities with points and bounties
The component also integrates with Shondalai Core services for points, activity streams, profile links, avatars, and external badge providers such as Rewardify.
Better customization
Version 7 includes built-in themes, density settings, layout controls, and answer card styling options.
Site owners can show or hide the top toolbar, left menu, and right sidebar blocks. The frontend also includes semantic ca-* CSS classes so templates can override styles without depending on long utility class names.
For developers
Community Answers 7 includes modern Joomla plugin events with clear event contracts. Legacy Community Answers event aliases are also supported where needed.
This gives third-party developers a safer way to integrate with questions, answers, comments, votes, bounties, notifications, and moderation.
A major step forward
Community Answers 7 is more than a visual update. It is a new foundation for the component.
It is easier to use, easier to moderate, easier to customize, and better prepared for the future of Joomla.
If you already use Community Answers, this release brings your Q&A community into the Joomla 6 era.