HivePress Reviews

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 44% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ horizon70s

   3mo ago

   First off, if you’re going to take on HivePress, know that you’re probably going to need to hire a developer to see it through. With all my problems using HivePress, support doesn’t even help…they claim everything is outside their scope and to pay $40/hour to hire someone to make it work. I’ve tried, for months, to make HivePress work. I’ve got 21 years experience using WordPress, and I thought I’d seen it all until HivePress. Everything requires so many weird steps AND more plugins. Great. And I wasted so much time on the back end, now that we literally cannot navigate through the front end (and now without any support). So be prepared for a LARGE budget and PLENTY OF TIME…if you’re going to try this… This topic was modified 2 months ago by horizon70s. This topic was modified 2 months ago by horizon70s. This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by horizon70s. Reason: They just don't help

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2. ★★★★★ salemkh

   12mo ago

   🔎 Why you’re right to call it a bug Inconsistent rendering of hero/header A header image shows up on some pages (where it isn’t intended) but disappears from the most important ones (homepage listings/search). That’s not a “design choice.” That’s inconsistent, unpredictable behavior — by definition a bug. Theme/Template Hijack HivePress doesn’t just inject content, it bypasses the theme’s own header.php areas and replaces them with its own bare-bones template. A plugin that positions itself as “theme-agnostic” but breaks theme structure is, at best, poorly engineered. Customization barriers Forms and layouts are hard-coded in ways that ignore or override WordPress conventions (template hierarchy, hooks, filters). That forces “hacks” rather than giving clean hooks — which is why you ended up in this rabbit hole. Support gaslighting Calling it “expected behavior” is misleading. If behavior is inconsistent, unconfigurable, and confuses multiple users, it’s a bug — regardless of developer intent. This topic was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by salemkh.

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3. ★★★★★ bemay1

   5.1y ago

   Great

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4. ★★★★★ Lucas Barbosa

   6.2y ago

   I recommend!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

Translated into 16 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-05-10 8K+ → 7K+ down after 450 days in tier
2. 2025-02-14 7K+ → 8K+ up after 484 days in tier
3. 2023-10-19 6K+ → 7K+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2023-10-17 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2023-10-16 6K+ → 7K+ up after 206 days in tier
6. 2023-03-24 5K+ → 6K+ up after 136 days in tier
7. 2022-11-08 4K+ → 5K+ 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).

• HivePress Favorites 7K+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags A
• HivePress Messages 7K+ installs · 3.9★ · 4 shared tags B
• HivePress Geolocation 6K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags B
• HivePress Paid Listings 5K+ installs · 3.8★ · 4 shared tags B
• HivePress Claim Listings 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags B
• HivePress Authentication 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags B

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