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HivePress — WordPress Directory Plugin

HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin

by HivePress · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.7.31 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.4+

HivePress has 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 560,314 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on August 26, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

HivePress at a glance

Active installs
10,000+
Total downloads
560,314
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
–
tracking since September 4, 2026

Is HivePress well maintained?

Support threads resolved
2 of 3
recent threads on the WordPress.org support forum
WordPress compatibility
Current
tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1
One-star reviews
<1%
2 of 221 reviews on WordPress.org

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Favorites – allow users to keep a list of favorite listings
  • Messages – enable private messaging so users can reply to listings
  • Geolocation – enable location-based search for listings and vendors
  • Reviews – allow users to rate and review listings and vendors
  • Claim Listings – allow users to claim their business listings and manage them
  • Memberships – monetize your website by restricting access to certain features
  • Marketplace – allow users to sell listings and charge a commission on each sale
  • Bookings – enable bookings for listings, allowing users to manage availability
  • Requests – allow users to post custom jobs, while vendors can respond with offers
  • Social Login – simplify registration by enabling login via social platforms
  • Social Links – allow users to add links to social platforms on their listings
  • Badges – automatically award user badges based on custom conditions

HivePress reviews and ratings

221 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
4.9 out of 5

221 reviews

5★
207
4★
7
3★
4
2★
1
1★
2

  • Bon plugin

    Je démarre mon site avec HivePress, je le trouve très intéressant et puissant

    normandie3000

  • My Satisfaction using Hivepress plugin

    I couldn't believe that a so well built theme like RentalHive or MeetingHive existed before. I have just found them out and everything I Wanted for my Marketplace project is already there. I couldn't ask better for my project !

    keisha25

  • Excelente asistente de IA

    Muy buena asistencia y buen tema

    victorm71

  • Outstanding Support!!!

    I ran into a snag setting up a directory for my project, and Kseniia from the HivePress support team, really dug into the issue and found the problem. Part user error, and part theme issue, she uncovered the mystery and helped me get HivePress working perfectly. HivePress is now my go-to solution for any directory projects. Thanks HivePress for a great product, and an outstanding support team!

    chiefbobo

  • Excellent - Worked perfectly as I wanted as a directory plugin

    I wanted to have my own directory website to list down curated hotels, restaurants and homestays in India for which I used this plugin and beleive me it worked perfectly. Their inbuilt search feature is good, however I wanted to have intuitive search like Google and hence wrote some scripts to customize it for generaly queries like "Best Breakfast near me" which automatically detects location and present relavant results like Google search does. Similarly I have also made sure that spelling mistakes are also taken care of as well as the search results highlights the searched words like google. What I mean to say is customization is also possible to great extent and the baselayer of plugin works fantastic. If someone is interested in looking at implementation of this plugin in 2026 then do visit stayfood.in

    howzbuy

  • Well-Built Plugin That Asks More of Your Time Than It Tells You Upfront

    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

    Rex Jones

Where HivePress ranks on WordPress.org

The rankings we track that HivePress appears in, and how its position changed over 30 days.

Ranking WordPress.org placement Position 30 days
Best Directory Plugins #5 by tag, #10 in search #4 –
Best Job Board Plugins #12 in search, not tagged #36 –
Best Ad Management Plugins #17 in search, not tagged #47 –
Best Real Estate Plugins #22 in search, not tagged #54 –

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Details

A simple yet powerful plugin to create a business directory, job board, real estate, classifieds, or basically any type of listing website.

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Tags

  • business directory
  • classifieds
  • directory
  • directory plugin
  • listings

More from HivePress

Version
1.7.31
Last updated
Aug 26, 2026
First published
Oct 11, 2018
Requires WordPress
5.0
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

HivePress FAQ

What does HivePress do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, HivePress offers Favorites – allow users to keep a list of favorite listings, Messages – enable private messaging so users can reply to listings, Geolocation – enable location-based search for listings and vendors, Reviews – allow users to rate and review listings and vendors and Claim Listings – allow users to claim their business listings and manage them.

How many active installs does HivePress have?

WordPress.org reports 10,000+ active installs for HivePress as of September 7, 2026.

Is HivePress still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on August 26, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Does HivePress have good support?

On the WordPress.org forum, 2 of 3 recent support threads for HivePress are marked resolved. That is the developer's free support; a paid version usually comes with its own channel.

Is HivePress free?

HivePress is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.

Where does HivePress rank among Directory Plugins?

HivePress is #4 in the WordPress.org "listings" ranking as of today.