70
Donations via PayPal
Easy money for you and a free email list for spammers.
HealthyDeclining
70/100
The plugin is easy to use but exposes your email address to the public.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
27 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-52%
Declining fast
102 → 49 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 52% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -52% in the last year
102/day a year ago→49/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayDonations via PayPal is a simple, easy-to-set-up plugin that generally works for basic donation collection, but carries a significant privacy concern in that it exposes the site owner's email address or full name publicly without encryption.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and largely works without ongoing maintenance×5
- +Responsive support noted by at least one user
Common complaints
- −Exposes the site owner's email address publicly in plain text when the donate button is clicked, with no encryption or obfuscation
- −Switching to Merchant ID instead of email still exposes the owner's full name publicly
- −Can trigger PayPal account suspension when used with a personal (non-business) PayPal account, with no clear warning
- −No Portuguese (Brazil) language support
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.67★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 27 total
Latest reviews · 27 analyzed
- 2025-05-29★★★★★It does exactly what I need it to do with minimal fuss.Elizabeth Beeton
- 2025-04-19★★★★★Get ready for the spamBoston Tom
- 2024-03-07★★★★★Nice and simplemobilewebexpert
- 2023-04-15★★★★★Bommagjardim
- 2022-06-21★★★★★almostEBurden
- 2019-10-30★★★★★Very nice pluginLinda Ma
- 2018-02-18★★★★★Nice and simple with responsive developer supportGeorge
- 2017-07-12★★★★★Simple, great supportwordpresspresser
- 2016-10-18★★★★★Flawless!lindamuller
- 2016-08-02★★★★★Time saverGascone
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
45
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
48
Prior 7-day baseline
41
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
38
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-6.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.89
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
85%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.67 → 4.67★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered