How it works
Check it isn’t already there
Search the open issues first — half of all requests are already filed, and a “+1” on an existing one carries more weight than a duplicate. The filters may also already cover it: filter reference.
Describe the situation, not the setting
“Add a dropdown here” tells me what you’d build. “Our couriers charge us differently per region and we can’t reflect that” tells me the problem — and often there’s a better answer than the one you’d have asked for.
I read every one
Not everything gets built — a plugin that does one thing well beats one that does forty things badly — but you’ll get an honest answer either way, including “no, and here’s the snippet that does it instead”.
Not a feature request?
A bug, a licence question, a billing problem or a security report each has a faster route than this page — support lists all four.