GiveWP

Item: GiveWP
Rating: 4.7
Author: Fast WordPress

by Liquid Web

A dedicated donation platform with recurring giving, funds, receipts and donor records.

4.6708 WordPress.org reviewsDonationsFreemium

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What GiveWP does

A dedicated donation platform with recurring giving, funds, receipts and donor records.

It sits in the donations part of a WordPress stack and is sold by Liquid Web on a freemium basis. We recommend it in our donations guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.

Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.

What GiveWP looks like

Official screenshots from the WordPress.org plugin directory, as published by the plugin authors.

GiveWP: Creating powerful donation forms is easy with GiveWP. Simply install the plugin, create a new donation form, set the desired giving options, and publish! — Creating powerful donation forms is easy with GiveWP. Simply install the plugin, create a new donation form, set the desired giving options, and publish!

GiveWP: Customizing your donation forms is easy and intuitive with customization options for any fundraising campaign. — Customizing your donation forms is easy and intuitive with customization options for any fundraising campaign.

GiveWP: Display you donation forms within a responsive grid on any page to make it easy for your visitors to choose a giving option. — Display you donation forms within a responsive grid on any page to make it easy for your visitors to choose a giving option.

GiveWP: Show of your donor's generosity with our customizable Donor Wall block and shortcode. — Show of your donor's generosity with our customizable Donor Wall block and shortcode.

Try GiveWP live

Press play to start a private, throwaway WordPress site in your browser with GiveWP version 4.16.8.1 already installed. Nothing is saved and nothing touches your own site: close the page and it disappears.

Open the demo full screenSandbox provided by WordPress Playground, the official WordPress in-browser sandbox. The admin login is filled in for you.

Real user ratings

Score

4.6/5

Reviews

708

Active installs

100,000+

Downloads

12.7M

Latest version

4.19.0.1

Last updated

2026-10-22

These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 4.19.0.1, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.7/5.

Where GiveWP ranks elsewhere

Publisher	List	Position
Elegant Themes	Best WordPress Plugins	#27 of 40

Positions are read from the published articles themselves, so they reflect that publisher's order rather than ours. Lists get re-ordered over time, so follow the link if you want the current version.

What changed in the latest version

v4.16.8.1Latest release

Security: Improved validation of the event tickets purchase flow.
Security: Added additional validation to PayPal Commerce completed-order processing.
Security: Added additional validation to donor email lookups. Thanks Jakub Herman for responsibly disclosing this issue.

v4.16.8

Fix: Fixed a campaign's default donation form appearing unpublished in the form builder.
Fix: Fixed PHP warnings on the form builder screen when its page is opened without the locale or donation form ID query arguments.
Fix: Resolved a plugin conflict that prevented donor first and last names from being recorded when the Charitable plugin was active alongside GiveWP.
Fix: Resolved an issue where the custom amount minimum and maximum also applied to the donation levels and the set donation amount, so a level below the minimum could not be donated. Forms that leave the minimum empty now fall back to th...
Security: Removed vulnerable dead code related to legacy donor relinking. (CVE-2026-82676)
Security: Enhanced security on donor account access. (CVE-2026-82675)
Tweak: Replaced the axios HTTP client with WordPress core's apiFetch in the donor dashboard, reports, onboarding wizard, and the log and migration list tables, and removed axios from the plugin's JavaScript dependencies.

v4.16.7.2

Security: Added additional hardening for serialized data handling in the donation flow.

Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog

Pros and cons

Best donor management in WordPress
A free tier you can trial before paying
Actively maintained and used on production sites we test

Key gateways are paid add-ons
The features most sites need sit in the paid tier

How to use it

1Connect a payment gateway and complete one real donation end to end.
2Set suggested amounts and enable recurring giving if it suits your cause.
3Customise the receipt email and check it arrives from your own domain.
4Add a progress goal so visitors can see momentum.
5Review donor records monthly and thank repeat supporters.

How it compares

Other donations plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.

Plugin	Our rating	WordPress.org	Pricing	Best for
GiveWP	4.7	4.6 (708)	Freemium	Best donor management in WordPress
Charitable	4.6	4.9 (218)	Freemium	No platform fee on donations
Charitable Ambassadors	4.2	4.9 (218)	Premium	Supporter campaigns without a platform
Donation Thermometer	4.5	4.4 (12)	Free	Free, light and easy to embed
GiveWP Peer-to-Peer	4.3	4.6 (708)	Premium	Supporter-led fundraising at scale
PayPal Donations	4.0	4.7 (27)	Free	Simplest way to accept donations