HivePress – Business Directory, Listings & Classified Ads Plugin

A simple yet powerful plugin to create a business directory, job board, real estate, classifieds, or basically any type of listing website.

v1.7.24HivePressUpdated Added 10k+ installs98% rating100% support resolved
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Errors
180
Warnings
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Category Scores

Security0
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability54

Top Issues by Category

maintainability124
security77
i18n11

Issues Details

218 issues found in latest scan

WARNING35
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery

Use of a direct database call is discouraged.

WARNING35
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching

Direct database call without caching detected. Consider using wp_cache_get() / wp_cache_set() or wp_cache_delete().

WARNING27
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended

Processing form data without nonce verification.

ERROR23
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$block'.

WARNING18
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound

Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$active_tab".

WARNING15
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNING14
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_key

Detected usage of meta_key, possible slow query.

WARNING7
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "the_content".

ERROR7
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment

A function call to __() with texts containing placeholders was found, but was not accompanied by a "translators:" comment on the line above to clarify the meaning of the placeholders.

WARNING5
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQL.InterpolatedNotPrepared

Use placeholders and $wpdb->prepare(); found interpolated variable {$column} at "SELECT {$column}, meta_key FROM {$table} \n

WARNING5
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_query

Detected usage of meta_query, possible slow query.

WARNING3
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedConstantFound

Global constants defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "HP_FILE".

WARNING2
WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders.UnfinishedPrepare

Replacement variables found, but no valid placeholders found in the query.

WARNING2
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_tax_query

Detected usage of tax_query, possible slow query.

WARNING2
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_FILES['file']['name']

WARNING2
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated

Detected usage of a possibly undefined superglobal array index: $_FILES['file']['name']. Check that the array index exists before using it.

ERROR2
wp_function_not_compatible_with_requires_wp

Function "get_post_parent()" requires WordPress 5.7.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 5.0.0.

WARNING1
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound

load_plugin_textdomain() has been discouraged since WordPress version 4.6. When your plugin is hosted on WordPress.org, you no longer need to manually include this function call for translations under your plugin slug. WordPress will automatically load the translations for you as needed.

ERROR1
PluginCheck.Security.DirectDB.UnescapedDBParameter

Unescaped parameter $column used in $wpdb->get_results()\n$column assigned unsafely at line 510.

WARNING1
WordPress.DB.SlowDBQuery.slow_db_query_meta_value

Detected usage of meta_value, possible slow query.

WARNING1
WordPress.WP.DiscouragedFunctions.query_posts_query_posts

query_posts() is discouraged. Use WP_Query instead.

WARNING1
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.MissingVersion

Resource version not set in call to wp_enqueue_script(). This means new versions of the script may not always be loaded due to browser caching.

WARNING1
WordPress.WP.I18n.LowLevelTranslationFunction

Use of the "translate()" function is reserved for low-level API usage.

ERROR1
WordPress.WP.I18n.NonSingularStringLiteralText

The $text parameter must be a single text string literal. Found: $label

ERROR1
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch

Mismatched text domain. Expected 'hivepress' but got 'continents-cities'.

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Warnings

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v1.7.24 · Plugin Check 2.0.0 · Model 2026.06-mvp-static-v2

v1.7.24

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218
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Warnings
180
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