Once you have installed Boomerang, we need to set up a Board.
What is a Board? #
A Board is like a filing cabinet full of Boomerangs. Your Boomerangs are your feature requests, or ideas, or suggestions or however else you would like to describe them based on your business or organisational needs. You can have as many Boards as you like, so if you sell multiple products on your store, each product can have a completely separate Board, each with their own settings and customizations.
Adding a Board #
Head to your admin dashboard. You will see two new menu items, Boards and Boomerang. In this tutorial, we will be using the Boards menu item, as we need to create a Board before we can start using Boomerangs. Click on Boards > Add New.
Give your board a name This is only used internally, so make it something easy to remember.
You will see a heaps of settings you can use to configure your board. Each setting has a description below, so you can learn more about what each one does.
Once you have configured your Board (you can always make changes later), click publish to make your Board live.
Displaying Your Board on Your Site #
Because Boards use shortcodes or Gutenberg Blocks, you can add a Board anywhere you want. Most users create a new page and display their Board on that page. However, you could add a Board on a product page, or even add multiple Boards to a post. As expected with WordPress, the world’s your oyster.
To add a Board to a page, go to Pages > Add New. Decide what you want to call it. You could use Ideas, Feature Requests or anything else that describes your Board’s purpose.
Add a block, in the usual way, and click on the Boomerang icon.
Next, you need to find your newly created Board in the dropdown. Go ahead and click it.
Finally, publish your Board Page. This would be a good time to create a menu item so your users can find it. You can do this as usual by going to Appearance > Menus > Add Menu Items.