Title: Boomerang &#8211; Feature Request Platform
Author: Ben Roberts
Published: <strong>Jolal 17, 2023</strong>
Last modified: Bowte 5, 2025

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# Boomerang – Feature Request Platform

 By [Ben Roberts](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bouncingsprout/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/boomerang.1.1.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/boomerang/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/boomerang/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/boomerang/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/boomerang/)

## Description

Boomerang provides a simple interface for your users or customers to provide feedback
about your goods or services. While created with feature requests in mind, you can
use Boomerang to collect any form of feedback from your customers, staff, potential
leads and so on.

It all starts with a board. And with Boomerang, you can create as many as you want.
Boards contain Boomerangs. These are the individual pieces of feedback your users
provide. Whenever a user creates a ‘Boomerang’, it is assigned to a chosen board.
So if you are a software company with multiple products, you are all set. If you
run a chain of hotels, each hotel can have a board, and you can easily keep track
of your feedback.

Here’s where Boomerang get’s really clever. Each board has its own set of options.
Because we know that collecting feedback may not be done the same way across your
whole product or service offer. So go ahead and customise each one accordingly.

### ✨ Features

#### A Modern User Interface

Boomerang features a slick user interface, closer to alternatives such as Canny 
or Frill. If you’ve used those (and cringed at the price they charge) you’ll feel
right at home. Boomerang comes with it’s own global styles, so you can get started
right away. However, if you are a web designer and happy using CSS, you can turn
these off for a more native, non-opinionated experience.

For administrators, nearly everything can be achieved on the front-end. Delete a
Boomerang. Change it’s status. And so on. You deserve a great experience too.

#### Granular Control

The most basic Boomerang has a title, and some content. That’s it. Everything else
a Boomerang might need, can be switched on individually. When you create a board,
these are all turned off by default. The easiest way to learn what the features 
do is to turn them on, one at a time. Experiment with how feature rich you want 
your Boomerangs to be. And if you need a bit more guidance, each feature has a description
to tell you more.

#### The Boomerang Block

The Boomerang archive comes with everything you need to create and list Boomerangs.
A modern, AJAX-enabled form. AJAX-enabled filters to narrow down the Boomerang list.
But how do you display it? Add your Boomerang listing to any page, using the Boomerang
shortcode (you’ll see this at the top of each board’s settings page). Even easier,
you could use the Boomerang Block to pick a board you’ve already created, and add
that directly into your block editor.

#### Statuses

Some plugins don’t let you edit your statuses. Boomerang gives you full control 
over them. You create them, you edit them, you assign them to Boomerangs. And you
do all that in the Boomerang Status Center. You’ll find it in the Boomerang menu.

#### Amazing Help and Support

Feel free to ask questions in the plugin support forum. You can see the link at 
the top of this page. Alternatively, you will find a ‘Contact Us’ item on the Boomerang
menu.Please don’t hesitate to reach out! We really want to meet you, and find out
more about how you are using Boomerang. When you activate Boomerang, you will be
asked to opt in to receive emails from us. We don’t do spam. We hate it. But if 
you choose to opt in, we can send you updates on how our website is getting on, 
and what new features we have planned.

### 💲Premium Features

We have a huge number of premium features available. To see how powerful our Professional
Edition is, head to our [website](https://boomerangwp.com/). Features include:

 * Quick Polls
 * Boomerang Merging
 * Better styling, colored statuses, improved layouts
 * Bug Management
 * Guest Submissions
 * Anonymous voting
 * Boomerang Editing
 * Related and suggested Boomerangs, to reduce duplication
 * Google reCaptcha v3 integration
 * Crowdfunding (for when you can’t justify developing an idea, but your users want
   to pay for it)
 * Custom Fields
 * Audit Logging
 * IgnitionDeck integration
 * BuddyPress/BuddyBoss integration
 * Status change notifications
 * New comment notifications
 * And much, much more…

### ⚙️ Getting Started

 1. Install and activate Boomerang. Opt in so we can send you updates on how Boomerang
    is evolving.
 2. Change your permalinks under Settings > Permalinks. You probably don’t want to 
    call your feature requests Boomerangs, right?
 3. Create you first board. Use our shortcode or block to add it to any page.
 4. Create your first Boomerang. It won’t look like much.
 5. Head to your board’s settings page in the back-end, and configure it any way you
    choose.
 6. If you get stuck, or have an amazing idea for Boomerang, head to the support forum.

### 📧 Connect with us

[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/boomerangWP/)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Boomerang Listing Page
 * [[
 * Single Boomerang Page

## Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

 *   Boomerang

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Great plugin with amazing support!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-with-amazing-support-51/)󠁿

 [dansorgel](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dansorgel/) Morso 4, 2025

A really clean, useful feedback/feature request plugin that works great out of the
box and has many options to customize. After testing it I immediately got the premium
version – definitely worth it if only for the guest voting functionality. I’m very
happy with the plugin so far, and my customers like having a feedback system. Absolutely
recommended plugin. Support is great, a developer that really listens and helps 
with everything. Keep up the great work!

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### 󠀁[Has potential](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-potential-30/)󠁿

 [Earnie Rhyker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rhyker2u/) Korse 23, 2024 1 reply

I like the idea and its features. UX/UI still needs some work imho.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Boomerang – Feature Request Platform” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ben Roberts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bouncingsprout/)

[Translate “Boomerang – Feature Request Platform” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/boomerang)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/boomerang/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/boomerang/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/boomerang/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/boomerang/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.4

 * Freemius update
 * WP Version Bump
 * Various bug fixes and improvements

#### 1.1.3

 * Improve pagination styling
 * Freemius update
 * Add a Boomerang Board filter in backend Boomerang list table

#### 1.1.2

 * Fix issue with downvoting

#### 1.1.1

 * WP Version
 * Freemius Version

#### 1.1.0

 * Improve styling so Boomerang better adapts to Block themes
 * Fix bug preventing notification setting from appearing
 * Fix bug where user avatar was displaying inside votes container
 * Add a default ordering dropdown
 * Ability to disable Select2
 * Add a new horizontal layout
 * Add ability to change the Boomerang Form background color

#### 1.0.5

 * Bug on activation
 * Update libraries

#### 1.0.4

 * Fix redirection issue after delete
 * Move styling to board level
 * Fix bug with SimpleLightBox
 * Move to AJAX pagination
 * Fix bug when accessing page 2 of directory and filters are used
 * Hide merged Boomerangs from voters
 * Improve bootstrapping
 * Fix styling issue in merge modal
 * Improve notifications system
 * Add placeholders to notifications
 * Fix bug when custom permalinks used
 * Minor styling updates and bugfixes

#### 1.0.3

 * Approve Boomerangs from the frontend
 * Allow bulk voting by managers to aid debugging
 * Minor bugfixes and styling issues

#### 1.0.2

 * Minor bugfixes and styling issues
 * Add various hooks
 * Update Freemius

#### 1.0.1

 * General release

#### 1.0.0

 * Repo release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.4**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.0 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/boomerang/)
 * Tags
 * [crowdfunding](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/crowdfunding/)[customer feedback](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/customer-feedback/)
   [feature requests](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/feature-requests/)[ideas](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ideas/)
   [requests](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/requests/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://fuc.wordpress.org/plugins/boomerang/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ben Roberts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bouncingsprout/)

## Support

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