HivePress Reviews
by HivePress · Uncategorized
Also makes 7 other plugins · 45K+ installs across the portfolio →
Allow users to rate and review listings.
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Health
B 81/100
Few reviews
Active installs
7K+
≈7.6K estimated
Momentum
+51%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “classifieds”, “directory” and “listings” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
81 health vs 58 average across 25,762 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →6.6%
of downloads still active
At least 7K of 106.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 2 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 25 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
3.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.02★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
42
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
25%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| hivepress your tag | #7 | #13 | 0 |
| reviews your tag | #18 | #24 | up 1 |
| no reviews | #18 | #24 | 0 |
| classifieds your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| directory your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| listings your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
4 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “classifieds”, “directory” and “listings” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 7.4K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
2
releases in the last 12 months
25d ago
latest release · v1.4.1 · 8 Oct 2026
16
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “7K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 months ago; the previous band took 15 months to cross, which places it about 61% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ horizon70s6mo 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
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ salemkh1.1y 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.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ bemay15.3y ago
Great
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Lucas Barbosa6.4y ago
I recommend!
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 16 languages, 0 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Allow users to rate and review listings."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 122 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "classifieds", "directory" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-10 8K+ → 7K+ down after 450 days in tier
- 2025-02-14 7K+ → 8K+ up after 484 days in tier
- 2023-10-19 6K+ → 7K+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-10-17 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-10-16 6K+ → 7K+ up after 206 days in tier
- 2023-03-24 5K+ → 6K+ up after 136 days in tier
- 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).
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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 4K+ 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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