Free public roadmaps for WordPress
NiroRoadmap turns a WordPress page into a public Kanban roadmap. Visitors see what is planned, in progress and shipped, and vote on what matters to them.
Answering the same questions by email does not scale, and a static changelog only shows the past. A public roadmap shows the plan in one place, and votes tell you which items people care about most.
Features
Items sit in status columns. Each column has its own accent color and an item count.
Anyone can vote on an item without an account. Each browser can vote once per item.
Click a card to open its status, tags, description and votes in a popup.
Editors and administrators can move and reorder items right on the public board.
Run a separate roadmap per product and label items with tags like Payments or Checkout.
Place the board with the [niroroadmap] shortcode or the Roadmap block.
On small screens the columns scroll sideways and snap into place.
Cards open from the keyboard, Esc closes the popup, and reduced-motion users get a plain fade.
No requests to external services and no personal data stored. Votes are plain counts.
Voting
Every item has upvote and downvote buttons. There is no signup step, so more people take part.
Workflow
Logged-in editors can drag items between columns and reorder them on the public page. Everyone else sees a read-only board.
For developers
Items are a regular custom post type with taxonomies for status, product and tag. The look is controlled by CSS custom properties.
How it works
Install NiroRoadmap from Plugins → Add New. It creates a Roadmap page and four statuses: Under Review, Planned, In Progress and Completed.
Rename statuses, pick colors and drag them into order. Add products and tags if you need them.
Go to NiroRoadmap → Add New. Give each item a status, and optionally a product and tags.
Visit the Roadmap page, or place the board anywhere with the shortcode or the Roadmap block.
FAQ
No. Anyone can upvote or downvote an item. Each browser can vote once per item.
Editors and administrators, while logged in. They can drag items directly on the public board. Everyone else sees a read-only board.
Yes. Assign items to a product, then use the shortcode [niroroadmap product="ID"] with that product's term ID from NiroRoadmap → Products.
Go to NiroRoadmap → Statuses. Drag the rows into the order you want, and edit a status to pick its color. The public board uses the same order.
It uses your theme's fonts and a neutral design. You can adjust colors, borders and spacing by overriding its CSS custom properties.
No. It makes no requests to external services. Votes are stored as plain counts on each item. The visitor's browser keeps a list of items it voted on in local storage, and that list is never sent to the server.
No. The Roadmap page is created once, and only if no page already shows the roadmap. The default statuses are added once, and only if you have none.
Deleting the plugin removes its settings. Your roadmap items, statuses, products, tags and the Roadmap page are kept.
Yes. The older [roadmap] shortcode still works alongside [niroroadmap].
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