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WP Donate

by ketanajani · Payments

Also makes 1 other plugin · 220+ installs across the portfolio →

WP-Donate provides a payment form and recent donor by utilizing Stripe.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 65 average across 1,095 Payments plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.16.

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.

50 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 7/100
WP compatibility 36/100
Rating quality 68/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1588 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+25% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

89

now · peak 188

8930d downloads · Aug 26

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

WP Donate · #25485 you WP Stripe Checkout · #6315 WooPayments: Integra · #75 WooCommerce Stripe P · #85

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.9Stars · Aug 26

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.

4.5Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

7.3y ago

latest release · v1.9

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.9 · 7.3y ago1.1 · 8.3y ago1.0 · 8.3y ago0.9 · 8.5y ago0.8 · 10.2y ago0.7 · 10.7y ago0.6 · 10.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-30 · 1,388 observations

20Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
2.0
Last updated
4.4y ago
Added
2013-08-08 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.9.16
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

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  1. NicheLabs
    8.9y ago

    Installed the plugin, activated it, entered my Auth.net credentials and tested the form. When I click on submit nothing happens, it just sits there. There is a post in the Support Threads that mentions this from 11 months ago. No response but the thread is closed.

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  2. damianvincent
    9.0y ago

    No way to style the plugin or edit the form fields, short of ripping apart the source code, payment gateway does NOT work, simply refreshes the page. No transactions appear through authorize.net. Really worried about using this plugin. BEWARE.

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  3. amyk
    9.1y ago

    I’ve been using WP-Donate for several years now. It does its job very well, which is providing a payment form that connects with authorize.net. It was easy to customize and add style to the form. It doesn’t need to be updated frequently as some other plugins do. The plugin authors maintain this plugin and respond to inquiries.

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  4. R J
    9.7y ago

    I got a project where a site was using this plugin. I was tinkering around, but couldn’t get it to work. Frustrated, I created a blank WordPress site with the WP Donate plugin to see how it’s supposed to work. I had my test authorize.net credentials ready, then tried some test transactions, but nothing happened. If you entered a wrong number, you would get the error message. If you entered a correct number, nothing happened: you refreshed the page, but no transactions showed in my Authorize.net summary and nothing was added to the Donor List in the admin settings. I could spend some time figuring out why this isn’t working, since others claim it does, but I will just find something that actually works.

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  5. Tankerman
    11.6y ago

    Good Plugin but need ip identification.

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  6. vagdiyasanjay
    11.8y ago

    Excellent plugin, easy installation and configuration. I’ve tested it with Auth.net test mode and it is working perfect. Just one thing missing from my perspective is it does not allow recurring transactions, but anyways good free plugin to receive donation.

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  7. maheshkamani
    11.8y ago

    Its just simple, I’ve configured donation form with wp-donate within 10 minutes. Great plugin.

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  8. Kevykev003
    12.3y ago

    Great plugin, easy to use and customize. Without all the unnecessary stuff. Fast, friendly support. I definitely recommend this plugin. Thanks Ashish for your help! Kevin

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-04-15 CVE-2025-32637 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.0 No patch available
  2. 2023-07-16 CVE-2015-10122 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 1.4 Patched in 1.5

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-03 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-31 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-29 30+ → 20+ down after 12 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-17 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-16 30+ → 20+ down after 99 days in tier
  6. 2025-12-07 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-06 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
  8. 2025-12-03 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in tier

Competes with

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