The fact that the FAQ plugin has only been downloaded at .ORG 8000 times should indicate that this is not a highly sought after feature, and most people, if they want an FAQ page will just code one up themselves.

I've set up FAQ sections for about eight clients now as it was something they just "had" to have, but none of them have ever done much of anything with them really, and in most cases I've gone in and deactivated them. 6 months of "coming soon" is enough.

FAQ pages in general, at least in my experience, have mostly useless information and seldom actually provide the information that people are looking for, or they are outdated, and people usually don't pay much attention to them because of that.

I think I understand you now. I don't have a need for such a plugin.

http://www.vickithedemystifier.com/your-questions-demystified/

and this weaker example probably done without a plugin from WordPress.org here

http://www.aquaresorts.com/contact-us/faq-policies/

Again I understand that there are design tradeoffs that, for now, relegate the plugins to WordPress.org sites. The support documentation page example you gave is just a similar style page for wordpress.com as it is nearly uncountably many other sites.

It is certainly possible from my posts to get confused between the individual "FAQ" questions/answers and pages of collected FAQ questions and answers common at many sites. I am referring in my questions and posts to the latter and interest or demand in allowing the building of such pages as described in more detail in my previous post.

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Your own blog has a resources page with many links to sites that provide external functionality to ratings and polls and a note indicating those links may pre-date the inclusion of ratings and polls by WordPress.com. So in the past it appears that people did external linking to get ratings and polls. The second part of my question asked about interest in similar functionality in FAQs.

Having bothered people about my interest at this point I will still re-pose a questions hopefully advised by your reply. The remaining questions would seem to be:

1) Is there demand for easy FAQ pages for WordPress.com through external linking, particularly if those external pages could be imported to a WordPress.org site through a plugin later?
2) (maybe) Is there demand for some kind of facility to build FAQs more easily that would not involve open plugin installation? It appears unlikely that it would reach the level of ratings and polls but doesn't seem to be an otherwise completely unreasonable question.

Thanks again for your feedback ...

I accepted that reality when I chose to blog here at wordpress.COM knowing if it did not suit my needs I could hire a web host and download a free install from wordpress.ORG.
FTP access > http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
plugins http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/
wordpress.com vs wordpress.org http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

I am a developer and have done some work towards developing a system that would make it easy to create a FAQ document on a separate site/page which could be loosely integrated with a WordPress.com blog by linking. I believe that I could also create a plugin that would allow a WordPress.com user to later import that FAQ page into a WordPress.org site if the customer moved to their own site later. Any thoughts on interest/demand for such a product?

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