Ben Roberts

<p>Boomerang provides a simple interface for your users or customers to provide feedback about your goods or services. While created with feature requests in mind, you can use Boomerang to collect any form of feedback from your customers, staff, potential leads and so on.</p>
<p>It all starts with a board. And with Boomerang, you can create as many as you want. Boards contain Boomerangs. These are the individual pieces of feedback your users provide. Whenever a user creates a ‘Boomerang’, it is assigned to a chosen board. So if you are a software company with multiple products, you are all set. If you run a chain of hotels, each hotel can have a board, and you can easily keep track of your feedback.</p>
<p>Here’s where Boomerang get’s really clever. Each board has its own set of options. Because we know that collecting feedback may not be done the same way across your whole product or service offer. So go ahead and customise each one accordingly.</p>
<h3>✨ Features</h3>
<h4>A Modern User Interface</h4>
<p>Boomerang features a slick user interface, closer to alternatives such as Canny or Frill. If you’ve used those (and cringed at the price they charge) you’ll feel right at home. Boomerang comes with it’s own global styles, so you can get started right away. However, if you are a web designer and happy using CSS, you can turn these off for a more native, non-opinionated experience.</p>
<p>For administrators, nearly everything can be achieved on the front-end. Delete a Boomerang. Change it’s status. And so on. You deserve a great experience too.</p>
<h4>Granular Control</h4>
<p>The most basic Boomerang has a title, and some content. That’s it. Everything else a Boomerang might need, can be switched on individually. When you create a board, these are all turned off by default. The easiest way to learn what the features do is to turn them on, one at a time. Experiment with how feature rich you want your Boomerangs to be. And if you need a bit more guidance, each feature has a description to tell you more.</p>
<h4>The Boomerang Block</h4>
<p>The Boomerang archive comes with everything you need to create and list Boomerangs. A modern, AJAX-enabled form. AJAX-enabled filters to narrow down the Boomerang list. But how do you display it? Add your Boomerang listing to any page, using the Boomerang shortcode (you’ll see this at the top of each board’s settings page). Even easier, you could use the Boomerang Block to pick a board you’ve already created, and add that directly into your block editor.</p>
<h4>Statuses</h4>
<p>Some plugins don’t let you edit your statuses. Boomerang gives you full control over them. You create them, you edit them, you assign them to Boomerangs. And you do all that in the Boomerang Status Center. You’ll find it in the Boomerang menu.</p>
<h4>Amazing Help and Support</h4>
<p>Feel free to ask questions in the plugin support forum. You can see the link at the top of this page. Alternatively, you will find a ‘Contact Us’ item on the Boomerang menu.Please don’t hesitate to reach out! We really want to meet you, and find out more about how you are using Boomerang. When you activate Boomerang, you will be asked to opt in to receive emails from us. We don’t do spam. We hate it. But if you choose to opt in, we can send you updates on how our website is getting on, and what new features we have planned.</p>
<h3>💲Premium Features</h3>
<p>We have a huge number of premium features available. To see how powerful our Professional Edition is, head to our <a href="https://boomerangwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a>. Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Quick Polls</li>
<li>Boomerang Merging</li>
<li>Better styling, colored statuses, improved layouts</li>
<li>Bug Management</li>
<li>Guest Submissions</li>
<li>Anonymous voting</li>
<li>Boomerang Editing</li>
<li>Related and suggested Boomerangs, to reduce duplication</li>
<li>Google reCaptcha v3 integration</li>
<li>Crowdfunding (for when you can’t justify developing an idea, but your users want to pay for it)</li>
<li>Custom Fields</li>
<li>Audit Logging</li>
<li>IgnitionDeck integration</li>
<li>BuddyPress/BuddyBoss integration</li>
<li>Status change notifications</li>
<li>New comment notifications</li>
<li>And much, much more…</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚙️ Getting Started</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate Boomerang. Opt in so we can send you updates on how Boomerang is evolving.</li>
<li>Change your permalinks under Settings > Permalinks. You probably don’t want to call your feature requests Boomerangs, right?</li>
<li>Create you first board. Use our shortcode or block to add it to any page.</li>
<li>Create your first Boomerang. It won’t look like much.</li>
<li>Head to your board’s settings page in the back-end, and configure it any way you choose.</li>
<li>If you get stuck, or have an amazing idea for Boomerang, head to the support forum.</li>
</ol>
<h3>📧 Connect with us</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/boomerangWP/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a></p>


Boomerang – Feature Request Platform

A slick, modern feature request and feedback platform for WordPress. Visit us at boomerangwp.com.

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<p>With IdeaPush you can add an awesome feature/idea request system to WordPress. Use IdeaPush to generate new ideas or get feedback from actual users and customers or use it as a support triage system or use it for something else!</p>
<p>Watch the plugin walkthrough:</p>
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<p>Check out the <a href="https://northernbeacheswebsites.com.au/ideapush-feature-requests/" rel="nofollow ugc">demo page here</a> and submit an idea for the plugin.</p>
<h4>Rich and extensive notifications</h4>
<p>Easily activate automatic notifications for the administrator, idea authors or voters for a range of actions. Use our simple but powerful shortcode generator to make your email subject and content dynamic, relevant and personalised.</p>
<h4>Intelligent voting</h4>
<p>Enable users or guests to vote on ideas with an up vote only or an up and down vote so poor ideas can be buried and good ideas can rise. Place a daily maximum voting limit on voting to prevent misuse. Set a vote threshold for your board so ideas automatically change status when the vote goal is reached.</p>
<h4>Fast idea creation</h4>
<p>With an accessible form users or guests can create new ideas and assign ideas tags and an attachment. Like votes, new ideas can have a daily limit so things don’t get out of control. Eliminate bot ideas with built-in honeypot and math problem protection. When new ideas are submitted, ideas can either be automatically published or get assigned a pending status for administrator approval. Upgrade to pro to show suggested ideas to users whilst they write a new idea to prevent duplication.</p>
<h4>Easy to use and fast setup</h4>
<p>The admin interface is well organised and provides extensive options for customising the plugin. Create a new board in seconds and add the board shortcode provided to any post or page.</p>
<h4>Statuses to keep things organised</h4>
<p>Statuses keep your ideas organised and logical within a typical development workflow. Ideas when created are set to open and are set to reviewed when the vote goal has been reached and can then be changed to approved or declined and then to in progress and completed. Ideas can be edited in the backend like any other WordPress post. Optionally, tags can be used as a secondary categorisation method to better manage ideas.</p>
<h4>Beautiful, dynamic and intuitive user interface</h4>
<p>Great attention to detail has been made to bring the frontend design to a professional level. IdeaPush is a dynamic Ajax powered interface so ideas move up and down as a vote gets cast. When ideas are sorted to show ideas by the most popular, recent, trending, your own ideas or ideas you have voted on, new ideas are fetched. Ideas can also be filtered by status or tags to create specific lookups of ideas.</p>
<p>Or better yet, use our super powerful live search filter to search idea titles, content, authors and tags with search phrase highlighting.</p>
<p>Each idea has its own page for sharing and SEO purposes and for administrators there are quick action buttons on the single idea page to bring idea triage to the frontend. Upgrade to pro to remove the single idea page.</p>
<h4>Other things</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin tightly integrates with existing WordPress functions</li>
<li>Translate certain things in the plugin settings and translate the rest using Poedit – German has already been done!</li>
<li>Extension board and global options</li>
<li>Enable or disable comments for ideas</li>
<li>An array of action hooks for other developers to sink their teeth into</li>
<li>You can choose to make a board available only to a certain user role or hide a board from WordPress search</li>
<li>It’s mobile responsive</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade to pro</h4>
<p>Upgrade to pro to unlock multiple boards and our powerful idea suggestion system to minimise duplicate ideas and so much more!</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HD18EijWSHo?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h4>All pro features</h4>
<ul>
<li>The ability to create multiple boards</li>
<li>Idea and tag suggestion system when users are creating a new idea to minimise duplicate ideas and tags</li>
<li>Shows related ideas on the single idea page</li>
<li>A beautiful idea history timeline on the editing interface so you can see and track the status of and idea and how it has changed over time and the ability to add an internal note to an idea</li>
<li>The ability to send an email to voters or the author of an idea with a custom and dynamic text</li>
<li>Track the activity of your ideas and votes over time and by user via the reports menu item</li>
<li>The ability to disable the single ideas page</li>
<li>An awesome integration with Zendesk</li>
<li>A simple but powerful integration with MailChimp</li>
<li>Ability to create challenges</li>
<li>Custom fields and multiple form settings including video field</li>
<li>User idea editing and deleting</li>
<li>Leaderboards</li>
<li>An awesome integration with Jira</li>
<li>Merge duplicate ideas</li>
<li>Have multiple users on the same IP address</li>
<li>Show images inline on the all ideas page</li>
<li>Widgets! Including a widget to show the leaderboard, a widget to display tags and a widget to display the idea form for a particular board</li>
</ul>
<p>Pro customers will also enjoy priority support and theming assistance so IdeaPush looks just right.</p>
<p><a href="https://northernbeacheswebsites.com.au/ideapush-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about IdeaPush Pro here</a></p>


IdeaPush

This is a promising plugin, but based on our experience it is not yet ready for use on production sites.

We experienced these issues, to which the author did not have a solution other than "buy the pro version and we shall see".

1. Vote buttons not showing
2. Comments not working
3. Page with the plugin shortcode throws an error on save

Not ready for production

Love this plugin. I have just installed it into my website, and it is too early to tell whether my customers are ready to engage with me. But what I can tell, is that this plugin meets all my expectations and even goes beyond. The free version already served my purpose more than enough, but I still went ahead and bought the premium version to keep this product supported.

Ticks all the boxes and beautifully crafted


I had troubles with installation with PHP 8, reported the issue and the developer was very responsive and had it fixed up in no time.I really like this - the only reason I'm not actually going to use for a project is because I'm looking for something that has a Trello style board view.  I had hoped the premium version had it but no such luck.  It's so close to what I was looking for and is easy to work with!


Great but just missing one feature for me


Hi Martin Gibson, Thanks a lot for this plugin. It was just what I was looking for. Very fast and does its job…



Raffaele


Thanks for this great free plugin

IdeaPush is a feature request management system for WordPress

Boomerang – Feature Request Platform vs IdeaPush