IdeaPush vs Simple Feature Requests Free – User Feedback Board

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! Watch the plugin walkthrough: Check out the demo page here and submit an idea for the plugin. Rich and extensive notifications 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. Intelligent voting 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. Fast idea creation 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. Easy to use and fast setup 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. Statuses to keep things organised 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. Beautiful, dynamic and intuitive user interface 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. Or better yet, use our super powerful live search filter to search idea titles, content, authors and tags with search phrase highlighting. 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. Other things The plugin tightly integrates with existing WordPress functions Translate certain things in the plugin settings and translate the rest using Poedit – German has already been done! Extension board and global options Enable or disable comments for ideas An array of action hooks for other developers to sink their teeth into You can choose to make a board available only to a certain user role or hide a board from WordPress search It’s mobile responsive Upgrade to pro Upgrade to pro to unlock multiple boards and our powerful idea suggestion system to minimise duplicate ideas and so much more! All pro features The ability to create multiple boards Idea and tag suggestion system when users are creating a new idea to minimise duplicate ideas and tags Shows related ideas on the single idea page 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 The ability to send an email to voters or the author of an idea with a custom and dynamic text Track the activity of your ideas and votes over time and by user via the reports menu item The ability to disable the single ideas page An awesome integration with Zendesk A simple but powerful integration with MailChimp Ability to create challenges Custom fields and multiple form settings including video field User idea editing and deleting Leaderboards An awesome integration with Jira Merge duplicate ideas Have multiple users on the same IP address Show images inline on the all ideas page 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 Pro customers will also enjoy priority support and theming assistance so IdeaPush looks just right. Learn more about IdeaPush Pro here

Keeping a list of all the feature requests you get from your users can be a cumbersome task. Maybe you’re managing your customer feedback all via spreadsheet and adding “+1″s to requests? Perhaps you’re using an expensive third party solution? Whatever method you use, chances are it costs you time AND money. Simple Feature Requests aims to make the process of collecting customer feedback and idea management much easier for you. Now you can let your users submit requests themselves and vote on the ones they want to see in your product — all from within your existing WordPress website. Simple Feature Requests Free The free version of the plugin provides the following features: Accept user-submitted feature requests. Users can vote on features they want to see included in your product. Users can comment on feature requests using the native WordPress commenting system. Admins can approve and manage feature requests. Intelligent search before submitting user feedback. Sort/filter by “Latest”, “Top”, “My Requests”, and “Status”. Select status from “Pending”, “Published”, “Under Review”, “Complete”, “Started”, “Planned”, and “Declined”. Ability to add custom statuses (requires code snippet). Simple Feature Requests Pro The Pro version of Simple Feature Requests provides enhanced features that make idea management even more effortless. Categorize feature requests to improve and organize the feature request process for your users. Bulk change request statuses to save you time managing user feedback. Add a roadmap to keep your users updated about where your product is heading. Enable email notifications for status changes or new comments, so your users keep in the loop. Limit votes per user to ensure they vote on only essential features. Image Uploads for feature requests. Custom Statuses for feature requests. Multiple Boards for grouping feature requests. Custom request labels to allow you to rename ‘request’ and ‘requests’ to whatever is most appropriate for your use-case. Allow Guest Voting for visitors without a user account. Integration with Advanced Custom Fields. Collect additional information from your users. Currently supported fields: Text, Email, URL, Number, Textarea, Select, Checkbox, Radio Upgrade to Pro Pro Feature Highlight: Product Roadmap Simple Feature Requests makes it easy to create a comprehensive product roadmap based on the customer feedback you’ve received. Our roadmap shortcode presents your product’s requests in a kanban view, organized by request status. You can configure which status columns to display in the roadmap and use the shortcode multiple times throughout your website. A product roadmap is essential for any product-based business. It allows you to keep your users in the loop about upcoming features and when to expect them. Upgrade to Pro Useful Links Documentation Simple Feature Requests Pro Customizing Simple Feature Requests templates in your theme Simple Feature Requests allows you to fully customize templates for your theme. The templates that are available for customization are available in the templates folder of the plugin. To create customized templates: In your theme folder, create the folder simple-feature-requests. Copy the template from the plugin, including the directory structure. Customize the new file(s) in the theme folder. For example: Given a theme folder of my-theme, and a need to customize the ACF output: Create the folder in the theme, simple-feature-requests. From the plugin templates folder, copy compat/acf/single.php into the simple-feature-requests folder. Edit as desired. The result will be the following in the theme folder: my-theme/simple-feature-requests/compat/acf/single.php.