Learn English – Not only X but also Y are (is?)

Always use the plural "are" with a plural subject (e.g. "question"), and the singular "is" with a singular subject (e.g. "article"), or with an uncountable subject (e.g. "water"). Hence:

Is there any question I should be asking?

Are there any articles available on the subject?

Is there any water left in the pond?

The following are never correct:

Is there any questions I should be asking?

Are there any article available on the subject?

Are there any water left in the pond?

The basic rule is that the matter following not only should parallel the matter following but also--the two should play the same syntactic role in the sentence.

So this is clumsy:

 This not only    allows you to maintain a uniform visual style, 
      but also    ______ ___ to introduce new developers to your codebase.

To introduce is not parallel with allows you. But you may easily clean this up by moving not only

 This allows you not only    to maintain a uniform visual style, 
                 but also    to introduce new developers to your codebase.

Your other examples are a little harder to illustrate, because a) the inversion you employ when not only launches the sentence has to go away in the but also piece, and b) the also has to move; but the principle is the same:

Not only should you        be able to speak, 
but      you should also   be able to write.

Note that you can drop the but in this case. You can see the pattern more clearly without the inversion:

You should not only   be able to speak,
           but also   be able to write.
      OR
You should be able not only   to speak,
                   but also   to write.