WhyDonate – FREE Donate button – Crowdfunding – Fundraising

WhyDonate is a WordPress plugin for Donations & Fundraising. It ranks #25 of 45 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 month ago.

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800 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band

4.8 Rating out of 5 From 43 ratings

35 Releases Since 15 April 2018

Oct 2026 Last release 1 month ago

Maintenance check

Is WhyDonate still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 1 month ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 43 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 84.1% of the directory

Ahead of 40,124 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

84.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

40,124 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

7,604 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

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The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version: 4.0.18
Requires WordPress: 4.6
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Requires PHP: 7.4
Added to the directory: 15 April 2018
Last updated: 5 October 2026
Contributors: 1
Author: jjlemstra
Support threads resolved: 0 of 1

Its own tags

crowdfunding
donate button
donation button
donation module
fundraising

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