RIACO Feedback – User Feedback, Feature Requests & Voting Board for WordPress Plugin Directory

RIACO Feedback 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.

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.

Core Features Feedback Board

Visitors submit ideas via a clean, customizable form (title + description)

Submitted feedback is held in a moderation queue until you approve it

Approved items appear on a public, vote-sorted board

Filter by status (Open, Planned, In Progress, Completed) or search by keyword

Sort by most votes, newest, or oldest

Content cards expand inline — no page reload needed

Paginated AJAX loading — no page refreshes

Voting System

One vote per visitor, tracked by a salted SHA-256 hash of IP + User-Agent — no account required

Toggle upvote / unvote with a single click

Vote counts update live via AJAX

Voting is automatically disabled on completed items

Duplicate votes are rejected at the database level (UNIQUE constraint)

Product Roadmap

Three-column kanban view: Planned / In Progress / Completed

Each column paginates independently

Compact cards show title, vote button, and completion date (completed items)

Embed on any page with [riaco_feedback_roadmap]

Admin Tools

Dedicated Feedback menu in the WordPress admin

Pending-count bubble on the menu item (mirrors the Comments counter)

One-click Approve action per item; bulk approve supported

Dashboard widget showing the 5 most recent pending submissions

Status and Project dropdown filters on the list table

Admin email notification when new feedback is submitted (opt-in)

Customization & Settings

8 color pickers for upvote button and form appearance — no CSS required

Configurable items per page (default 20)

Multiple Projects — scope each shortcode to a project slug

All colors output as direct CSS class rules so they always win the cascade

For Developers

Clean service-container architecture with a ServiceInterface contract

5 action hooks: riaco_feedback_submitted, riaco_feedback_upvoted, riaco_feedback_unvoted, riaco_feedback_approved, riaco_feedback_loaded

Filterable email recipient, subject, and message body

riaco_feedback_submission_data filter to modify post arguments before creation

riaco_feedback_item_html filter to override the rendered card HTML

riaco_feedback_services filter to add or replace services in the container

PSR-4 autoloading via Composer

Perfect For

SaaS and software teams — let users vote on the next feature to build

WordPress theme / plugin developers — collect roadmap requests from customers

Community sites and forums — give members a structured way to suggest ideas

Agencies — drop a branded feedback board on any client project

Internal tools — gather employee suggestions on a private intranet page

Shortcodes [riaco_feedback_features project="main"]

Renders the submission form alongside the full feedback board. This is the all-in-one shortcode for most setups.

[riaco_feedback_features_board project="main"]

Renders only the feedback board (no form). Use this when you want the form and the list on separate pages.

[riaco_feedback_roadmap project="main"]

Renders the three-column kanban roadmap grouped by status.

All shortcodes accept a project attribute that scopes the display to a specific project slug (default: main). Create additional projects from Feedback → Projects in the admin.