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
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.
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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.phpinto thesimple-feature-requestsfolder. - Edit as desired.
The result will be the following in the theme folder: my-theme/simple-feature-requests/compat/acf/single.php.
