HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin

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1. ★★★★★ Rex Jones

   3mo ago

   I don’t think HivePress is a bad product. I want to say that first because a 3-star review next to a wall of 5-star reviews can look like someone having a bad day, and that’s not what this is. This is a month of honest effort from a non-developer building a tourism directory who eventually walked away. The code is clean. The free tier is genuinely generous. The paid tier has more features. The support community is active and the team responds. If you’re a developer, or if your project fits neatly into one of their niche themes (rentals, jobs, freelance marketplaces), HivePress is probably a great choice. I believe the people giving it 5 stars. Their experience just wasn’t mine. My problem was the distance between the demo and the product I was trying to build. HivePress installs fast and looks professional out of the box. But the moment I started shaping it into an actual tourism directory with real listings, custom fields, and a structure that didn’t match their default templates, every adjustment required CSS at minimum and PHP more often than I expected. The documentation is thin in the places where it matters most, which is the customization layer between “installed the plugin” and “built the thing I actually need.” The plugin’s own help center directs you to code snippets and child theme overrides for anything beyond surface-level changes. That’s a legitimate approach, but it’s not a no-code one, and the marketing doesn’t make that distinction clearly enough. I spent a little over a month trying to close that gap. I never got there. Not because the plugin broke, not because support was rude, and not because the tool is poorly made. I gave up because the time I was investing in learning HivePress’s architecture was time I wasn’t spending on my actual business, and after trying several other directory plugins with similar results, I eventually built a custom system from scratch that does exactly what I need. If your project aligns with what HivePress already does out of the box, you’ll probably love it. If your project doesn’t, be prepared to either write code or pay someone who can. I gave it three stars because the product is solid but the gap between what it promises and what it delivers to a non-developer is wider than the feature list suggests.

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2. ★★★★★ Enrick PIERRE de la BRIERE

   5mo ago

   The support team has been able to help me and fix a compatibility bug. I recommend.

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3. ★★★★★ Vanbo

   6mo ago

   Easy to customize. Use it for a motorcycle website.

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4. ★★★★★ outofqueens

   7mo ago

   The support chat has been next level, all the plugins and themes are also without fault.

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5. ★★★★★ kalkat

   8mo ago

   The plugin is great. It’s obvious that you need to customize it to your needs. I’m speaking as a non-coding user. You can create some pretty cool websites. The technical support is very helpful. The support team’s policy is to respond within 24 hours (of course, for paid support, but no one works for charity). At the beginning of my HivePress journey, I didn’t believe in such fast support, but I’ve learned that it’s true. I give it 5 stars and wish the continued development of this wonderful plugin and themes.

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6. ★★★★★ chihi108

   8mo ago

   They fixed my issue so quickly I barely had time to complain about it. 10/10

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7. ★★★★★ extremeleadprogramcom

   9mo ago

   This plugin is great for running a directory listing. Flexible enough to meet most any need. I did have to do a bit of my own optimization for a HUGE site but that’s a pretty rare edge case for the most part. Will use on other projects if I need to.

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8. ★★★★★ windflowerau

   10mo ago

   The plugin is incredible and the ai assistant makes it so easy. Highly recommend!

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Translated into 33 languages, 20 at 90% or more

Plus 9 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2022-11-26 9K+ → 10K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 5 shared tags A
• GeoDirectory – WP Business Directory Plugin and Classified Listings Directory 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 5 shared tags A
• Classified Listing – AI-Powered Classified ads & Business Directory 9K+ installs · 4.8★ · 5 shared tags A
• Advanced Classifieds & Directory Pro 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 4 shared tags A
• Listdom: AI-powered Business Directory with Classifieds Ads Listings 1K+ installs · 4.7★ · 4 shared tags A
• WP-BusinessDirectory – Business directory plugin for WordPress 30+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags A

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