IssueM

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% 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. ★★★★★ KNBDunlop

   5.8y ago

   Our site has now used IssueM for 3 years. Readers can see and click to read all articles in an issue, scroll through them in order, browse them by categories of interest, and find back issues. IssueM has structured our magazine effectively and allowed the editors (who are non-technical) to keep our file structure tidy. With 500 Articles or so a year to manage, IssueM’s structure has encouraged and embedded a tidy procedure. It is great to be able to prepare a new edition in the background and then publish it when it is ready by simply changing the draft status of the Issue to Live. We would like more, of course! The documentation is weak so setting up took some time and a lot of trial and error but the results, after writing some CSS to get a reasonable look and feel, was worth the effort. It is reliable. Many thanks to Zeen for your product. This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by KNBDunlop.

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2. ★★★★★ evanholt

   6.3y ago

   It’s a great concept, but my god is the documentation miserably bad! There is literally no source to how you can actually arrange the content in a proper way anywhere! They just show you sites that have in some way made the layout properly. Very poor documentation gives this good useful idea a 1 star. It’s just so hard to know anything about how to use this effectively.

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3. ★★★★★ linuxscout

   8.9y ago

   Thanks a lot

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4. ★★★★★ jtranter

   9.4y ago

   A great magazine plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ beth_a_a

   11.0y ago

   Easy to install and use to create issue based publications. What impressed me the most was the extent that IssueM developers went to help me out to customize my theme code to work with their plugin code (especially since I am a beginner and needed plenty handholding), to specify the pagination for only articles within each issue. Very professional, quick, helpful, and generous! They offered quick and detailed responses, as well as patience, to all of my questions! Thank you for a great plugin and awesome service, would definitely recommend for all

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6. ★★★★★ Canadagirl

   11.0y ago

   Thanks for such a quick response (less than 10 mins on a Friday night) to my inquiry. After I built my issue with two articles as a test, I couldn’t get it to show up in the sidebar. I sent off a quick email, but found the answer in the forum. I needed to go over to the dashboard, settings, permalinks and then it cleared the permalinks and the magazine issue showed in the sidebar as advertised. I’m just a little disappointed that the issue looks much like a series of normal blog posts rather than a magazine (with columns etc, and options for typography) if you use it as is. Maybe in the future?! Keep up the good work. We really need a good magazine option plugin for WordPress sites.

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7. ★★★★★ fbherr

   11.0y ago

   I recently designed a website for a client who has published a monthly magazine for years, was looking for a way to deliver it online going forward (with an option for people to download past issues in PDF format). They were very happy to discover IssueM and are now using it on their live WordPress site. It basically creates a custom post type called Article and lets you organize them into Issues, and assign Categories and Tags to each article. It has some good widgets and shortcodes to display things like the current issue’s contents, a page listing all past issues, a page of all articles by a specific author, a basic slider that displays featured images and links to any articles you designate as “featured”, etc. I had to contact the plugin’s support staff several times to ask how to do some things (or to help me troubleshoot some plugin conflicts), and they always responded quite quickly, with helpful suggestions. Many thanks to the developers for this very useful – and free – magazine publishing plugin!

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8. ★★★★★ webdesignerwp

   11.0y ago

   I installed this plugin because of the extension that converts the magazine articles to PDF. I’ve been very disappointed. First, the default layout of the posts does not include a post thumbnail. I search high and low to figure out how to add that in. But, every time the plugin is updated it has to be re-added. I purchased the Issue to PDF plugin and found that there are no options in the plugin for customizing, and it didn’t come with any instruction. I was finally given a link to mPDF documentation. But, no instruction on how to apply my PDF template to the plugin. I am not programmer, and this is a bit too advanced for me.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 IssueM <= 2.9.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-03 CVE-2025-58631 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.9.0 Patched in 2.9.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

Translated into 6 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-02-04 700+ → 600+ down after 270 days in tier
2. 2025-05-10 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-05-08 700+ → 800+ up after 46 days in tier
4. 2025-03-23 800+ → 700+ down after 4 days in tier
5. 2025-03-19 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-03-18 800+ → 700+ down after 3 days in tier
7. 2025-03-15 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-03-14 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier

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).

• News Manager 600+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag D
• Project Management, Bug and Issue Tracking Plugin – Software Issue Manager 20+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B

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