Brigade Kanban Board – Task Manager & Project Management

Brigade Kanban Board is a free Kanban board and task management plugin for WordPress, made by BrigadeThemes. It adds boards, columns and task cards to wp-admin so your team can plan content, client projects, store orders or everyday to-dos without leaving WordPress.

Everything stays in your own database. The plugin makes no external requests, has no tracking and loads nothing on your public site.

Who it is for

• Content and editorial teams who want a writing pipeline from idea to published, with each card linked to its draft post.
• Agencies and freelancers who track client work and deadlines in the same dashboard they build sites in.
• WooCommerce store owners who need a simple board for fulfilment, returns or support follow-ups.
• Anyone who wants a lightweight to-do list or project planner without a separate SaaS subscription.

Kanban boards

• Unlimited boards, columns and tasks
• Start from a template: Basic, Content pipeline or Store fulfilment
• Work-in-progress (WIP) limits per column, with a warning when a column is over
• Mark a column as “done” so moving a card there completes the task
• Board view or sortable list view
• Search and filter by assignee, label, priority and due date
• Archive finished boards

Task management

• Title, description and checklist with progress
• Priority (low, medium, high, urgent) and due dates with overdue highlighting
• Multiple assignees per task
• Colour labels that board managers can create right from the task
• File attachments from the Media Library
• Comments and a full activity history
• Link a task to any post, page or custom post type; the post editor shows its tasks

Report tasks from any page

Spot a broken button, a typo or an outdated price while browsing your site? Click Add task in the toolbar, on the front end or in wp-admin:

• Point at the element with the problem; it is highlighted when the task is opened later
• Paste a screenshot (Ctrl+V or ⌘V) or choose an image
• Pick the board and column, set priority and due date
• Assign it to the right people, grouped by role (Developer, Content Writer, SEO Editor…)
• The page address and title, browser and screen size are saved automatically
• See every open task already reported on the page you are viewing

Only logged-in people with Kanban Board access see the button. Visitors never load anything.

Dashboard and My Tasks

Every user lands on a dashboard with their numbers (open tasks, overdue, due this week, boards) and a personal list of open tasks assigned to them across all boards, grouped into Overdue, Due today, Next 7 days and Later.

Assignment emails

When someone is assigned a task, they get an email with the task title, board, column, priority, due date, labels, checklist progress, description, linked content and a button to open it. Emails go through your site’s own mail setup (wp_mail), and nobody is emailed about an assignment they made themselves. Admins can turn this off under Kanban Board > Settings.

Daily reminders

Each morning, assignees get one email listing their open tasks that are overdue, due today or due tomorrow, with a link to each. Nothing is sent to people with nothing due.

Email preferences

Everyone decides for themselves: the “Email me” card on the dashboard switches assignment emails and daily reminders on or off for that person. Admins can also turn either email off for the whole site.

Accessible drag and drop

• Move cards with a mouse, a touch screen (press and hold) or the keyboard
• Keyboard: Space picks a card up, arrow keys move it, Space drops it, Escape cancels
• Every move is announced to screen readers
• A “Column” selector in each task as a non-drag alternative

Team permissions

• Choose which roles can use Kanban Board and which can create boards
• Add specific people too, whatever their role (for example one Author or a client account)
• Share a board with everyone who has access, or keep it private to its members
• Board roles: manager, editor and viewer
• Site administrators can see and manage every board

Built for performance

• Works like an app: Dashboard, boards and Settings switch instantly and every change saves in the background, with no page reloads
• Indexed database tables, so large boards load in a handful of queries
• Scripts and styles load only on Kanban Board screens in wp-admin
• No build step and no third-party JavaScript libraries; uses the React and components that ship with WordPress

For developers

• REST API under brigade-kanban-board/v1, with a permission check on every route
• Actions: brkb_board_created, brkb_board_deleted, brkb_task_created, brkb_task_updated, brkb_task_moved, brkb_task_deleted, brkb_comment_added, brkb_activity, brkb_loaded
• Actions: brkb_task_assigned (fires for newly assigned users)
• Filter brkb_page_tasks_enabled to show or hide the toolbar button per page
• Filters: brkb_board_templates, brkb_board_role, brkb_show_linked_tasks_box, brkb_assignment_email, brkb_reminder_email

Import and export

Export a board (columns, labels, tasks and checklists) as JSON and import it on another site. People and comments are never included in exports.

Privacy

Brigade Kanban Board stores user IDs for task creators and assignees, comments, and an activity log in your database. Assignment emails are sent through your site’s own email (wp_mail) to the assignee’s account address. It registers with the WordPress personal data exporter and eraser, and suggests text for your privacy policy.