Creating questions

The goal of this application is to let people submit questions and get answers from various experts in the same field. First off, we need to create a method to add questions and answers. By default, WordPress allows us to create posts and submit comments to the posts. In this scenario, a post can be considered as the question and comments can be considered as the answers. Therefore, we have the capability of directly using normal post creation for building this interface.

However, I would like to choose a slightly different approach by using the custom post types plugin, which you can find at http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Post_Types, in order to keep the default functionality of posts and let the new functionality ...

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