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<p><strong>RIACO Feedback</strong> lets your visitors submit feature requests, vote on existing ideas, and track progress through a public roadmap — all without leaving your WordPress site. It takes minutes to set up and requires no coding.</p>
<p>Install the plugin, drop a shortcode on any page, and your users can start submitting and voting immediately. Admins review and approve submissions from the WordPress dashboard before they go public.</p>
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<p><strong>Feedback Board</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Visitors submit ideas via a clean, customizable form (title + description)</li>
<li>Submitted feedback is held in a moderation queue until you approve it</li>
<li>Approved items appear on a public, vote-sorted board</li>
<li>Filter by status (Open, Planned, In Progress, Completed) or search by keyword</li>
<li>Sort by most votes, newest, or oldest</li>
<li>Content cards expand inline — no page reload needed</li>
<li>Paginated AJAX loading — no page refreshes</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Voting System</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>One vote per visitor, tracked by a salted SHA-256 hash of IP + User-Agent — no account required</li>
<li>Toggle upvote / unvote with a single click</li>
<li>Vote counts update live via AJAX</li>
<li>Voting is automatically disabled on completed items</li>
<li>Duplicate votes are rejected at the database level (UNIQUE constraint)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Product Roadmap</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Three-column kanban view: Planned / In Progress / Completed</li>
<li>Each column paginates independently</li>
<li>Compact cards show title, vote button, and completion date (completed items)</li>
<li>Embed on any page with <code>[riaco_feedback_roadmap]</code></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Admin Tools</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Dedicated <strong>Feedback</strong> menu in the WordPress admin</li>
<li>Pending-count bubble on the menu item (mirrors the Comments counter)</li>
<li>One-click <strong>Approve</strong> action per item; bulk approve supported</li>
<li>Dashboard widget showing the 5 most recent pending submissions</li>
<li>Status and Project dropdown filters on the list table</li>
<li>Admin email notification when new feedback is submitted (opt-in)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Customization & Settings</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>8 color pickers for upvote button and form appearance — no CSS required</li>
<li>Configurable items per page (default 20)</li>
<li>Multiple <strong>Projects</strong> — scope each shortcode to a project slug</li>
<li>All colors output as direct CSS class rules so they always win the cascade</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>For Developers</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Clean service-container architecture with a <code>ServiceInterface</code> contract</li>
<li>5 action hooks: <code>riaco_feedback_submitted</code>, <code>riaco_feedback_upvoted</code>, <code>riaco_feedback_unvoted</code>, <code>riaco_feedback_approved</code>, <code>riaco_feedback_loaded</code></li>
<li>Filterable email recipient, subject, and message body</li>
<li><code>riaco_feedback_submission_data</code> filter to modify post arguments before creation</li>
<li><code>riaco_feedback_item_html</code> filter to override the rendered card HTML</li>
<li><code>riaco_feedback_services</code> filter to add or replace services in the container</li>
<li>PSR-4 autoloading via Composer</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>SaaS and software teams</strong> — let users vote on the next feature to build</li>
<li><strong>WordPress theme / plugin developers</strong> — collect roadmap requests from customers</li>
<li><strong>Community sites and forums</strong> — give members a structured way to suggest ideas</li>
<li><strong>Agencies</strong> — drop a branded feedback board on any client project</li>
<li><strong>Internal tools</strong> — gather employee suggestions on a private intranet page</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p><strong><code>[riaco_feedback_features project="main"]</code></strong><br />
Renders the submission form alongside the full feedback board. This is the all-in-one shortcode for most setups.</p>
<p><strong><code>[riaco_feedback_features_board project="main"]</code></strong><br />
Renders only the feedback board (no form). Use this when you want the form and the list on separate pages.</p>
<p><strong><code>[riaco_feedback_roadmap project="main"]</code></strong><br />
Renders the three-column kanban roadmap grouped by status.</p>
<p>All shortcodes accept a <code>project</code> attribute that scopes the display to a specific project slug (default: <code>main</code>). Create additional projects from <strong>Feedback <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Projects</strong> in the admin.</p>


RIACO Feedback – User Feedback, Feature Requests & Voting Board

Collect user feedback, feature requests, and votes. Display a public board and product roadmap anywhere on your site with a shortcode.

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.

RIACO Feedback – User Feedback, Feature Requests & Voting Board vs Boomerang – Feature Request Platform