- Minimum burden on users reporting website issues
- Maximum detail in technical reports received by developers
- Full-featured kanban board in wp-admin, for a familiar and secure user experience
Clients have neither the time nor the knowledge to provide detailed technical reports when they spot a problem on their website. But developers can't do their job without that detail. Time is wasted on every issue report, as the developer tries to understand and replicate the problem.
But WordPress already knows everything about the context of each page request. So an issue-capturing solution inside WordPress can capture all that information, silently in the background, giving the developer everything necessary to get to work.
Why take it outside WordPress? Every project needs a method for tracking issue progress: since your clients and developers will already be using WordPress for the website itself, the most logical place to do that is within WordPress.
Alpaca Issue Tracker provides a full-featured kanban experience inside wp-admin, using WordPress core components and approaches, for a familiar user and developer experience.
Open Alpaca Issue Tracker in WordPress Playground
Download the latest Alpaca Issue Tracker ZIP
For local branch testing, run npm run playground:start. That builds the current branch ZIP and opens a local Playground instance using the same seeded content as the public demo.
- Kanban Board Interface - Drag-and-drop issues between and within fully customizable status columns
- Automatic Context Capture - Browser info, page context, and technical details are saved with each bug report submitted from the front end
- Built for WordPress - Uses native WordPress components, post types, taxonomies and database tables
- Extensibility - Developers can add custom functions and integrations via conventional WordPress actions & filters
- Respects User Permissions - Integrates with WordPress user roles and capabilities
- Screenshot Capture - See exactly what the user saw, captured and processed locally within the browser
- Comment and Activity Thread - A unified view of each issue's progress, supporting attachment uploads and user mentions
- Priority Management - Flag high-priority items and set deadlines
- Assignee System - Assign issues and checklist items to team members
- Email Notifications - Instant or daily digest email notifications for the issues you care about
- Translation Ready - Fully localized and ready for translation into any language (including RTL support)
- No Artificial Limitations - Use on as many sites, with as many users, issues, attachments and interactions as you need
- Freelance developers managing client sites
- Small agencies tracking bugs and feature requests
- Engineering teams needing lightweight project management
- Developers wanting tune their kanban experience
- Clients performing QA on a new site
- Account managers responsible for rolling retainer contracts
- Enterprises and government bodies needing extra reassurance on hosting
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- DOMPurify for HTML sanitization. Copyright 2025, Dr.-Ing. Mario Heiderich, Cure53. MPL-2.0 or Apache-2.0 license.
- Marked for Markdown processing. Copyright (c) 2018+, MarkedJS (https://github.com/markedjs/) Copyright (c) 2011-2018, Christopher Jeffrey (https://github.com/chjj/) MIT license.
- PrismJS for syntax highlighting. Copyright (c) 2012, Lea Verou. MIT license.
- PropTypes for React prop validation. Copyright (c) 2013-present, Facebook, Inc. MIT license.
- Snapdom for screenshot capture. Copyright (c) 2025 ZumerLab. MIT license.