GiveWP Peer-to-Peer
by Liquid Web
Lets supporters run their own fundraising pages and teams under your main campaign.
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What GiveWP Peer-to-Peer does
Lets supporters run their own fundraising pages and teams under your main campaign.
It sits in the donations part of a WordPress stack and is sold by Liquid Web on a premium 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.
Real user ratings
Score
4.6/5
Reviews
707
Active installs
100,000+
Downloads
12.3M
Latest version
4.16.8.1
Last updated
2026-09-10
These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 4.16.8.1, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.3/5.
Where GiveWP Peer-to-Peer ranks elsewhere
GiveWP Peer-to-Peer does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.
What changed in the latest version
- 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.
- Fix: Fixed a campaign's default donation form appearing unpublished in the form builder.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.
- 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
- Supporter-led fundraising at scale
- Paid support and updates from the vendor
- Actively maintained and used on production sites we test
- Requires a GiveWP plan
- Renewal cost is annual and per site
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 Peer-to-Peer | 4.3 | 4.6 (707) | Premium | Supporter-led fundraising at scale |
| Charitable | 4.6 | 4.9 (217) | Freemium | No platform fee on donations |
| Charitable Ambassadors | 4.2 | 4.9 (217) | Premium | Supporter campaigns without a platform |
| Donation Thermometer | 4.5 | 4.4 (12) | Free | Free, light and easy to embed |
| GiveWP | 4.7 | 4.6 (707) | Freemium | Best donor management in WordPress |
| PayPal Donations | 4.0 | 4.7 (27) | Free | Simplest way to accept donations |
Guides that cover GiveWP Peer-to-Peer
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