by rebelidealist 4.8 (34 reviews)

Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform

Name: Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform
Rating: 4.8 (34 reviews)
Author: rebelidealist

Donorbox is a powerful and secure donation management plugin for WordPress. We are the only donation plugin for WordPress that offers a fast feature-f …

Donorbox ranks #2,388 among WordPress.org plugins with 8,000+ active installations, is #310 of 12,386 in the E-commerce category, a 4.8/5 rating from 34 reviews, and was last updated Jun 30, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8.9 (Current: 7.1.1)

v7.1.12 Current Version v7.1.12

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 30 Jun, 2025

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#310 of 12,386 in E-commerce Top 5% by installs Downloads +14.1% this week No update in over a year

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#2,388

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Active Installs

8K+

-9.2%

KW Avg Position

17.6

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152.2K

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Rating

96%

Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (34 reviews)

Next Milestone 9K

Total Progress 76.9%

8K+ 9K+

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

5 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 5 days ago

Apr 20, 2022

Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform [donorbox-donation-form] < 7.1.7

CVE-2022-1396 · Fixed in v7.1.7
Mar 25, 2022

Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform [donorbox-donation-form] < 7.1.7

Fixed in v7.1.7
Jan 2, 2020

Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform [donorbox-donation-form] < 7.1.2

Fixed in v7.1.2
Dec 19, 2019

Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform [donorbox-donation-form] < 7.1.2

Fixed in v7.1.2
Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform [donorbox-donation-form] >= 7.1 - <= 7.1.1

Affected >= 7.1 <= 7.1.1

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Plugin Details

Version: 7.1.12
Last Updated: Jun 30, 2025
Requires WP: 3.0+
Tested Up To: 6.8.9
PHP Version: N/A
Author: rebelidealist

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 34
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for nonprofits and organizations that want to accept donations on their WordPress site. It solves the problem of collecting one-time and recurring donations by embedding customizable Donorbox forms and managing donor records without building a custom payment system.

Customizable donation forms
Pop-up donation forms
Custom input fields
Custom donation amounts
Multiple currencies via Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Venmo, Google Pay
Recurring monthly donations
Automatic receipt emails
CSV export of donations

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform

The Donorbox form builder has been designed to make creating forms a very simple process. You don't need to have any programming experience to create a Donorbox form. Find a complete guide here to create and customize your very own donation form: https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/get-started-with-donorbox/

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to email us at support@donorbox.org. We’d love to help you get set up and ready to go.

The following is a guide to embedding a recurring donation form on WordPress: https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/wordpress-embedding If you want to use a donate button or simply link to your donation page, follow these steps: https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/donate-now-button-for-nonprofits

Placing the following CSS in one of your CSS files or within the page should make the donation widget display horizontally in the centre. #dbox-form-embed { max-width: 425px !important; margin: auto; display: block; }

Donorbox allows users to pre-fill some fields in the donation form, including amount. You can append field values as query parameters to the donation URL used with the shortcode. Pre-filling of the following fields are supported: amount first_name last_name email phone address zip_code Additionally, you can set recurring=true to the have Monthly recurring option selected by default. For example: [donate https://donorbox.org/rebel-idealist?first_name=Fname&last_name=Lname&email=user@example.com&phone=1234567890&amount=30&address=Newstreet&zip_code=54321&recurring=true] or [donate-with-info https://donorbox.org/rebel-idealist?first_name=Fname&last_name=Lname&email=user@example.com&phone=1234567890&amount=30&address=Newstreet&zip_code=54321&recurring=true] You can find more answers in our Knowledge Base. Or drop us an email at support@donorbox.org. We would love to help.

Use the following shortcode in your posts / pages or the template file: [donate] or [donate-with-info] The WordPress donation plugin will replace the shortcode with an embed frame using the settings provided in admin.

Dashboard > Settings > Donorbox

Donorbox can be the best WordPress donation plugin for you as it is designed to improve donor conversion rates. While form plugins are a great way to add general forms on websites and collect the needed information, they are not optimized for online fundraising. Donorbox donation forms are multi-step, responsive forms, i.e a donor completes seamless donations in a few steps. Compared to other WordPress donation plugins, it can be customized to help offer a neat and fast donation experience.

Yes, you can accept weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual recurring donations via Donorbox. Donorbox forms help increase your online donations by attracting and encouraging recurring donations. To enable these recurring options, simply log into your Donorbox dashboard and click on “Edit Campaign”. Next, go to the Advanced tab of the form builder and check the boxes of the options you need, and uncheck the ones you don’t.

Processing fees for your online donations cannot be eliminated however the best WordPress donation plugins will let you ask your donors to cover the processing fees, like Donorbox.