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HivePress Reviews — WordPress Review Plugin

by HivePress ¡ WordPress.org page

v1.4.0 Tested up to WP 7.1 PHP 7.4+

HivePress Reviews has 7,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 100,488 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 24, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.1.

HivePress Reviews at a glance

Active installs
7,000+
Total downloads
100,488
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is HivePress Reviews well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Current
tested up to WordPress 7.1, the current release is 7.1

HivePress Reviews reviews and ratings

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

All reviews
3.0 out of 5

4 reviews

5★
2
4★
0
3★
0
2★
0
1★
2

  • Using Hivepress

    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...

    horizon70s

  • Buddy Plugin and default theme

    🔎 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.

    salemkh

  • Great

    Great

    bemay1

  • Good

    I recommend!

    Lucas Barbosa

Where HivePress Reviews ranks on WordPress.org

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

Ranking WordPress.org placement Position 30 days
Best Review Plugins #20 by tag, #18 in search #17 –
Best Directory Plugins #14 by tag, #95 in search #23 –

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Details

Allow users to rate and review listings.

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

Rankings HivePress Reviews competes in

Tags

  • classifieds
  • directory
  • hivepress
  • listings
  • reviews

More from HivePress

Version
1.4.0
Last updated
Aug 24, 2026
First published
Oct 25, 2018
Requires WordPress
5.0
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

HivePress Reviews FAQ

How many active installs does HivePress Reviews have?

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

Is HivePress Reviews still maintained?

Yes. The last release was on August 24, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Is HivePress Reviews free?

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

Where does HivePress Reviews rank among Review Plugins?

HivePress Reviews is #17 in the WordPress.org Review Plugins ranking.