Alpaca Issue Tracker

Alpaca Issue Tracker is a powerful yet simple issue tracking system that lives inside your WordPress admin. Built with the WordPress philosophy in mind, it provides a Trello-like kanban board interface for managing bugs, feature requests, and project tasks.

Key Features

• 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

Perfect For

• Freelance developers managing client sites
• Small agencies tracking bugs and feature requests
• Development teams needing lightweight project management
• Clients performing QA on a new site
• Account managers responsible for rolling retainer contracts
• Enterprises and government bodies needing extra reassurance on hosting

How It Works

Clients don’t have the time or knowledge to provide detailed technical reports when they spot a problem. But developers can’t do their job without that detail. Alpaca Issue Tracker solves this by automatically capturing all the technical context WordPress already knows about each page request.

When a user reports an issue via the Alpaca Issue Tracker front-end toolbar, the plugin silently captures:
– A screenshot of what the user can see
– Browser and device information
– Current page URL and template
– Queried object details and HTTP headers
– Any JavaScript errors

This gives developers everything they need to reproduce and fix issues quickly, with zero burden on the client.

Issues can also be created on the admin side, meaning Alpaca Issue Tracker can also be used as a complete project management system, to plan new features or track internal tasks.

Third-Party Libraries

Alpaca Issue Tracker includes runtime copies or bundled output from the following GPL-compatible libraries:

• Bowser – MIT license – https://github.com/bowser-js/bowser
• DOMPurify – MPL-2.0 option from (MPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0) – https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify
• Marked – MIT license – https://marked.js.org/
• PrismJS – MIT license – https://prismjs.com/
• PropTypes – MIT license – https://github.com/facebook/prop-types
• SnapDOM – MIT license – https://github.com/zumerlab/snapdom

Recommended Plugins

Alpaca Issue Tracker uses user images throughout its interface, for extra humanity. We recommend Simple Local Avatars as a reliable solution for processing and hosting photos of your users without using an external service.

Development

Alpaca Issue Tracker is currently in active development.

Source code and build configuration are available at:
https://github.com/rareview/alpaca

Building from Source

1. Clone the repository
2. Run npm install
3. Run npm run lint
4. Run npm run build
5. Run npm run zip to create a distributable package

The distributed plugin includes compiled JavaScript and CSS assets. The source files, dependency manifests, and build instructions are available in the repository above. Composer dependencies are used for development tooling and coding standards checks.

Privacy Policy

Alpaca Issue Tracker does not collect or transmit any data outside of your WordPress installation. All issue data, screenshots, and technical information are captured and stored locally in your WordPress database and/or filesystem.

Credits

Developed by Rareview®