NiroRoadmap – Public Product Roadmap & Kanban Board

Visit support.nirosuite.com or email niro@nirosuite.com. New to the plugin? The Getting Started screen under NiroRoadmap walks you through the setup.

No, unless you want them to. Anyone can upvote or downvote an item, and each visitor gets one vote per item. To require a login, change Settings → Voting → Who can vote .

Yes, when you turn on Settings → Comments . Comments show in the item popup and are moderated like any WordPress comment. You can require a login, close comments on one item from its Discussion box, or close them automatically when an item is completed.

Yes, when you turn on Settings → Submissions , or add submissions="yes" to one board. Ideas are saved as Pending and stay hidden until you approve them from the Items list. Visitors see similar items while they type, which cuts down on duplicates.

Both forms use a hidden honeypot field, a per-IP rate limit and (for ideas) a minimum fill-in time. Comments also pass through your usual WordPress moderation and spam plugins. To add a CAPTCHA to the idea form, use the niroroadmap_submission_verify filter.

Yes. Choose Dark or Auto (follows the visitor’s device) under Settings → Appearance .

Editors and administrators. They can drag items directly on the public board while logged in. Everyone else sees a read-only board.

Go to NiroRoadmap → Statuses and drag the rows into the order you want. The order is saved right away and used on the public board.

Edit the status under NiroRoadmap → Statuses and pick a color. It’s used for the column’s top border and status dot.

Yes. Assign items to a product, then use [niroroadmap product="ID"] with that product’s term ID. To pick the product for boards that don’t name one, set Settings → General → Default product .

Under NiroRoadmap → All Items . Add or edit an item like any post: give it a title, a description, a status, and optionally a product, tags, a Featured image (shown as its cover) and the Roadmap details .

Add the Roadmap block, or a Shortcode block with [niroroadmap] . The page chosen in Settings → General → Roadmap page is just the page the plugin created for you, so you can also build your own and ignore it.

A date written YYYY-MM-DD (for example 2026-12-31 ) or a quarter such as Q4 2026 (also q4-2026 ). Anything else is rejected with a message and the old value is kept. Visitors see the target only if you turn on Settings → General → Show an item’s target date or quarter in its popup .

Turn on Settings → General → Show an item’s status timeline in its popup . Visitors see statuses and dates. Only your team ever sees who moved the item.

No. They are for your team and are never shown on the board or returned by the public API.

Yes. Use the Pin to the top of its column and Hide votes switches in the Roadmap details box of the item. Pinned items stay at the top of their column whatever the sort order.

Not easily. Besides the cookie, votes are matched by a salted hash of the visitor’s IP address and browser. If you prefer to use cookies only, return an empty string from the niroroadmap_vote_fingerprint filter. See “Privacy” below.

When Settings → Voting → Let voters change their vote is on, a voter can switch between an up vote and a down vote. A vote can’t be withdrawn. When the setting is off, a vote is final.

Yes. Turn off Settings → General → Show the downvote button . The server then rejects downvotes too. To keep downvotes but hide the numbers, use Settings → Voting → Show downvote counts to .

Anyone, unless you turn on Require login to comment (or WordPress requires registered users to comment). Guests give a name and email; the email is kept private. Logged-in users aren’t asked.

Like any other WordPress comments, from the Comments screen. Roadmap comments follow your Settings → Discussion rules (for example “hold for moderation”), and a visitor sees their own held comment as awaiting moderation. Roadmap comments are also open to your spam plugin.

Open the item and use its Discussion box on the edit screen. To close them automatically, turn on Settings → Comments → Close comments when an item is moved to Completed .

Yes, one level deep: a visitor can reply to a comment, but not to a reply. Long threads load a page at a time.

They are saved as Pending items. Open NiroRoadmap → All Items , look at the Submitted by column and click Approve to publish one, or edit it first. A published idea appears on the board in the status you picked under Settings → Submissions → Status for new ideas .

Yes, by default, at the site’s admin address. Change the address, or turn it off, under Settings → Submissions . The niroroadmap_submission_notify_to filter can change the recipient from code.

Yes. Turn on Settings → Submissions → Only logged-in users can suggest ideas . You can also set Ask visitors for their name and email to Don’t ask , Ask, but optional or Ask, and require both .

Yes, when you have products, the dialog shows a Product field. On a board limited to one product, the idea is filed under that product automatically.

By default a comment can be 2000 characters, an idea title 200 and its details 2000. A visitor can send 5 comments per 10 minutes and 3 ideas per hour, and 30 votes per 10 minutes. An idea can’t be sent within 2 seconds of the dialog opening. Developers can change all of these with filters (see “For developers”).

Yes. It ignores accents and capital letters, so “cafe” finds “Café”.

Yes. The search, sort, filters and the chosen view (Board, List or Timeline) are kept in the page address, so copy the address from your browser.

A sorted or filtered view doesn’t show every item in its manual order, so saving a drag would store a misleading order. Clear the search or put the sort back on Manual order to drag again.

Yes. The columns scroll sideways with snapping, and the toolbar collapses into a Sort & filter button. The list and timeline views stack to fit a narrow screen, and Settings → Views → Open boards as a list on narrow screens makes the list the first thing phone visitors see.

Cards can be opened with the keyboard, the popup and the dialogs can be closed with Esc, vote and toolbar messages are announced to screen readers, and the zoom animation becomes a plain fade for visitors who prefer reduced motion.

Yes. The text domain is niroroadmap and a template file is in the languages folder. You can also translate it from translate.wordpress.org once the plugin is listed there.

Yes. Paste it into Settings → Appearance → Custom CSS , or override the CSS custom properties listed under “For developers” from your theme. The accent color and corner radius have their own settings.

Administrators change the settings. Editors and administrators can edit items and drag them on the board. Visitors can vote, and comment or suggest ideas when you allow it.

It makes no requests to outside services. A first-party cookie is set the first time a visitor votes. See “Privacy” for the details. Comment avatars use Gravatar like the rest of WordPress, unless you turn them off.

Yes, under /wp-json/niroroadmap/v1/ . See “For developers” for the routes.

It uses your theme’s fonts and a neutral design. To adjust the colors, override the CSS custom properties listed under “For developers”.

Yes. Turn on Settings → Views → Let visitors switch between Board, List and Timeline , or use [niroroadmap switcher="yes"] on one board. To show a view without a switcher, use [niroroadmap view="list"] or view="timeline" . The timeline groups items by their target, so turn on Show an item’s target date or quarter in the General tab first. Items without a target are listed last under Later / Unscheduled , and a group with no items is left out. The List is a table of title, status, tags, comments, votes and target; click a heading to sort it. All three views show the same items, follow the same search and filters, and open the same popup, so voting and comments work in each. Dragging works on the Board only.