WP Roadmap is a product feedback plugin for WordPress, in the same family as tools like FeatureOS, Featurebase, and Canny but kept inside WordPress. It ships an upvote-driven feedback board, status columns (planned, in progress, done), comments, and admin tools for triaging suggestions. The data is its own (ideas, votes, comments) stored in custom tables managed by the plugin.

SleekView is a data-views plugin. Point it at any post type, mark a couple of fields as upvotable and sortable, and the feedback-board view renders it with the same shape WP Roadmap targets: cards with title, status, vote count, and a comment area. The cards are posts, not rows in a separate plugin table. Kanban and table views over the same CPT come along at no extra cost: the same feature requests can be a feedback board for users, a kanban for the product team, and a sortable table for stakeholders.

The migration story is strongest when the feedback items deserve their own URL, schema, and integration with the rest of WordPress. A feature request that is also a CPT can appear in search, in REST, in the changelog, and on the public roadmap page, all from one record. WP Roadmap remains a fair fit for sites that want a self-contained feedback app and do not need the items to live among other content.

Feedback plugins look interchangeable until the question of what an idea is comes up. WP Roadmap, like several feedback tools for WordPress, answers with its own database tables. An idea is a row in a feedback-plugin table with its own schema, its own admin UI, and its own export format.

That keeps the plugin self-contained and easy to install, but it pushes a hidden cost onto every team whose feedback items have a life beyond the board. Roadmap items get linked from the marketing site, release notes reference them by ID, the product team wants to triage them on a kanban, and reports pull them into stakeholder dashboards. None of those callers naturally see plugin tables.

The team ends up writing custom queries to bridge feedback data into the rest of WordPress, or duplicating it into a second store. SleekView's model is to assume the feedback items are already posts, structured with ACF or Meta Box, and that the feedback board is a rendering of those posts. That single shift removes the synchronisation problem entirely: every upvote is a meta-field update on a post, every status change is a taxonomy or ACF write on a post, and every other plugin and theme template already knows how to read posts.

The same CPT can also render as a kanban for the team and a table for stakeholders, with no duplication. The right tool depends on whether the feedback items stand alone or live among other content. For sites where they live among other content, the items being posts is the difference that compounds the longer the product runs.