How to Collect Feature Requests on Your WordPress Site

Good ideas for your product are already out there. They sit in emails, chat messages, and support tickets, spread across ten places. When they are scattered like that, you lose them, and you cannot tell which ones matter most.

The fix is simple. Put all your feature requests in one place. A feature request board lets people send you ideas, see what others asked for, and vote. Here is how to set one up on your WordPress site, for free.

Why one board beats your inbox

When feature requests come by email, you miss two things. You cannot see that ten people asked for the same thing. And you cannot tell which request is the most wanted. A public board shows both. Every idea is out in the open, people can vote, and the popular ones rise to the top on their own.

Set up your board

Install the free SimpleBoards plugin, create a board, and add this shortcode to any page:

. That gives you a page where people send feature requests and vote, right inside your own site.

Let people post without an account

Asking people to sign up before they can share an idea is the fastest way to lose that idea. SimpleBoards lets guests send a feature request with just a name and email. Turn on guest submissions in Settings, and every request, from members and guests, lands in the same place for you to check.

Keep it clean

Two things keep your board tidy. You review each request before it shows up in public, so nothing embarrassing goes live by mistake. And built-in spam protection blocks bots with a hidden field, a timing check, and a limit per visitor, so your real visitors never see an annoying captcha.

Turn requests into action

Collecting ideas is only the start. The real win is when you let people vote and move the top ones onto a public roadmap. SimpleBoards does all of that on one board, so your ideas, votes, and roadmap live together.

Want to see it first? Try the live demo.

Last updated on: August 12, 2026