Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 23 Oct 2026, 2 days before this check.
Latest release 4.19.0.1 on 22 Oct 2026.
Public since February 2015, a little over 11 years.
366 stars and 207 forks.
1,897 commits and 13 new issues in the last 90 days.
155 contributors. 186 pull requests merged in 90 days.
No security policy file says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub.
In simple English
This tool adds donation buttons and payment forms to your WordPress site. It helps you collect money for a charity, a project or any cause you care about. Non-technical users can download it from the WordPress plugin directory and set it up through their admin dashboard. Developers can use this GitHub repository to build custom features or contribute to the core code. It is free to download and use, though you may pay extra for payment gateway add-ons.
What it is
GiveWP is an open-source donation and fundraising plugin written in PHP for the WordPress content management system. It provides donation forms, donor management tools and reports directly inside your website dashboard.
What it is good for
Solo builders and charities who run their website on WordPress and want to accept direct financial contributions without paying heavy monthly fees to third-party fundraising platforms.
- Includes ready-made donation forms that you can place anywhere on your site.
- Tracks donor history and generates fundraising reports inside WordPress.
- Extensible codebase with add-ons for various payment gateways.
- Requires an existing self-hosted WordPress installation and basic knowledge of how plugins work.
- Many advanced payment gateways and integrations require paid add-ons.
- Running a local development environment requires Docker (a way to run a program inside its own sealed box, so it cannot break anything else on your server), Node.js (a tool that runs JavaScript code outside of a web browser) and Composer (a tool for managing programming libraries in PHP).
third-party donation platforms that take a high percentage fee on every transaction
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git clone https://github.com/impress-org/givewp.git cd givewp composer install && npm install && npm run build && npm run env:start