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Maintained Tested up to 6.9.9 #1 in Feature Request

IdeaPush

IdeaPush is a feature request management system for WordPress

Active installs700+100+ tier
Downloads · 30d311▲ +10.3% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.5/531 reviews
Health score67/100Good
All-time downloads40.1KSince Feb 2018
Support resolved1 / 1100% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 4.0PHP 5.2.4+
Downloads · 7d83▲ +6.4% week over week
Our verdict

Solid choice

IdeaPush is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 700+ sites, is rated 4.5/5 and was last updated 5 months ago, and scores 67/100 on our health check.

  • Loved by users — 4.5/5 from 31 reviews
  • Small user base (700+ active installs)
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.9 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

51116Jul 5Aug 18Oct 2
Yesterday14
Daily average (1y)9
Peak day241May 5, 2026
Last 12 months3.3K

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where IdeaPush stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
Feature Request #15 10,000 Best Feature Request plugins →
idea #3 2,712 Best idea plugins →
idea collector #1 12 Best idea collector plugins →
idea-board #2 94 Best idea-board plugins →
push #86 1,726 Best push plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 8.7753.3%
  • 8.7321.1%
  • Other25.5%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 from 31 reviews

  • 5★80.6%
  • 4★6.5%
  • 3★3.2%
  • 2★6.5%
  • 1★3.2%

About IdeaPush

From the official readme · v8.77

Description

With IdeaPush you can add an awesome feature/idea request system to WordPress. Use IdeaPush to generate new ideas or get feedback from actual users and customers or use it as a support triage system or use it for something else!

Watch the plugin walkthrough:

Check out the demo page here and submit an idea for the plugin.

Rich and extensive notifications

Easily activate automatic notifications for the administrator, idea authors or voters for a range of actions. Use our simple but powerful shortcode generator to make your email subject and content dynamic, relevant and personalised.

Intelligent voting

Enable users or guests to vote on ideas with an up vote only or an up and down vote so poor ideas can be buried and good ideas can rise. Place a daily maximum voting limit on voting to prevent misuse. Set a vote threshold for your board so ideas automatically change status when the vote goal is reached.

Fast idea creation

With an accessible form users or guests can create new ideas and assign ideas tags and an attachment. Like votes, new ideas can have a daily limit so things don’t get out of control. Eliminate bot ideas with built-in honeypot and math problem protection. When new ideas are submitted, ideas can either be automatically published or get assigned a pending status for administrator approval. Upgrade to pro to show suggested ideas to users whilst they write a new idea to prevent duplication.

Easy to use and fast setup

The admin interface is well organised and provides extensive options for customising the plugin. Create a new board in seconds and add the board shortcode provided to any post or page.

Statuses to keep things organised

Statuses keep your ideas organised and logical within a typical development workflow. Ideas when created are set to open and are set to reviewed when the vote goal has been reached and can then be changed to approved or declined and then to in progress and completed. Ideas can be edited in the backend like any other WordPress post. Optionally, tags can be used as a secondary categorisation method to better manage ideas.

Beautiful, dynamic and intuitive user interface

Great attention to detail has been made to bring the frontend design to a professional level. IdeaPush is a dynamic Ajax powered interface so ideas move up and down as a vote gets cast. When ideas are sorted to show ideas by the most popular, recent, trending, your own ideas or ideas you have voted on, new ideas are fetched. Ideas can also be filtered by status or tags to create specific lookups of ideas.

Or better yet, use our super powerful live search filter to search idea titles, content, authors and tags with search phrase highlighting.

Each idea has its own page for sharing and SEO purposes and for administrators there are quick action buttons on the single idea page to bring idea triage to the frontend. Upgrade to pro to remove the single idea page.

Other things

  • The plugin tightly integrates with existing WordPress functions
  • Translate certain things in the plugin settings and translate the rest using Poedit – German has already been done!
  • Extension board and global options
  • Enable or disable comments for ideas
  • An array of action hooks for other developers to sink their teeth into
  • You can choose to make a board available only to a certain user role or hide a board from WordPress search
  • It’s mobile responsive

Upgrade to pro

Upgrade to pro to unlock multiple boards and our powerful idea suggestion system to minimise duplicate ideas and so much more!

All pro features

  • The ability to create multiple boards
  • Idea and tag suggestion system when users are creating a new idea to minimise duplicate ideas and tags
  • Shows related ideas on the single idea page
  • A beautiful idea history timeline on the editing interface so you can see and track the status of and idea and how it has changed over time and the ability to add an internal note to an idea
  • The ability to send an email to voters or the author of an idea with a custom and dynamic text
  • Track the activity of your ideas and votes over time and by user via the reports menu item
  • The ability to disable the single ideas page
  • An awesome integration with Zendesk
  • A simple but powerful integration with MailChimp
  • Ability to create challenges
  • Custom fields and multiple form settings including video field
  • User idea editing and deleting
  • Leaderboards
  • An awesome integration with Jira
  • Merge duplicate ideas
  • Have multiple users on the same IP address
  • Show images inline on the all ideas page
  • Widgets! Including a widget to show the leaderboard, a widget to display tags and a widget to display the idea form for a particular board

Pro customers will also enjoy priority support and theming assistance so IdeaPush looks just right.

Learn more about IdeaPush Pro here

Installation

There are a few options for installing and setting up this plugin.

Upload Manually

  1. Download and unzip the plugin
  2. Upload the ‘idea-push’ folder into the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  3. Go to the Plugins admin page and activate the plugin

Install via the Admin Area

  1. In the admin area go to Plugins > Add New and search for “IdeaPush”
  2. Click install and then click activate

Changelog

Security update

8.77

  • Security update

8.76

  • Fix for my ideas

8.75

  • Fix for filter being My by default

8.74

  • Made custom fields in backend match up to the frontend in terms of input type

8.73

  • Small security update

8.72

  • Small security update

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

The main board display showing the the ideas on the left and the idea creation form on the right
The main board display showing the the ideas on the left and the idea creation form on…
The single idea display with quick edit functions for administrators only
The single idea display with quick edit functions for administrators only
Live searching/filtering
Live searching/filtering
Create a board in seconds
Create a board in seconds
Extensive notification options
Extensive notification options
Rename statuses
Rename statuses
Change the primary color of links and icons
Change the primary color of links and icons
Translate the form fields
Translate the form fields

For developers

Is this your plugin? Show off the numbers.

Add a live badge to your site, docs or GitHub README. It updates on its own — no account needed.

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FAQ

IdeaPush: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 3, 2026

Is IdeaPush free?

Yes. IdeaPush is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is IdeaPush safe to use in 2026?

IdeaPush is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 700+ sites, is rated 4.5/5 and was last updated 5 months ago, and scores 67/100 on our health check.

How many websites use IdeaPush?

IdeaPush is active on 700+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 40,063 times since it launched in February 2018. It was downloaded 311 times in the last 30 days.

Does IdeaPush work with WordPress 7.1?

IdeaPush is officially tested up to WordPress 6.9.9, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does IdeaPush need?

IdeaPush requires PHP 5.2.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was IdeaPush last updated?

The latest version, 8.77, was released on May 5, 2026 (5 months ago).

Who makes IdeaPush?

IdeaPush is developed and maintained by Northern Beaches Websites.

What are the best alternatives to IdeaPush?

The most popular alternatives to IdeaPush are Changeloger (300+ installs), Simple Feature Requests Free (100+ installs) and Feature Request & Idea Coll… (20+ installs).

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