As of April 2026, Civist is a WordPress activism plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 19 reviews. It has been downloaded 29K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: SpeakOut! Email Petitions.
4.6/519 reviews
1.0K+active installs
29K+total downloads
9 yearssince 2017
Overview
Create and configure your petition directly in your own WordPress. Publish them in a page or post and you are ready to go! Your supporters sign the petition right there, embedded in your website.
Just add a donation form to your petitions to collect SEPA and credit card donations in compliance with EU legislation.
With Civist, you manage your supporters directly in WordPress. Contacts are automatically saved in your mailing list manager. Simple!
Export your contacts and signatures as CSV-files for further processing.
Ratings & Reviews
4.619 reviews
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Recent Reviews
It’s a SaaS Wrapper, Not Plugin.
by deandid·1 year ago
Meh.
Awesome plugin and service
by onedigitalfarm·1 year ago·1 reply
It was very easy to install the plugin and embed the petition in one custom page. Support was very proactive in making recommendation on how to improve user experience in the page. Highly recommended
Not a local plugin
by scman·2 years ago
I went to try this out, the first thing I see is it wants a agreement to their site terms. From what I saw this doesn’t look like a plugin that runs locally and uses your own server and resources.
Thank you for the help
by odise·2 years ago·1 reply
I received excellent support service.
I received a very fast service and solution regarding Turkish language support and donation form stripe connection.
All my questions were answered without getting bored.
Thank you very much.
Regards
It corresponds to my expectation
by ckl6767·2 years ago·1 reply
This WordPress extension meets my expectations.
Although there’s no way to automatically display one or all signatures and their comments on a WordPress page or post via the Civist plugin, I can extract them in CSV format for later use.
On reflection, I find this even better, as I can select the results I want to display.
This is a petition, not a survey.
Also what is really appreciated is the support who is verry reactive.
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 11This week: 77Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
Version Adoption
v7.9
55.1%
v7.8
14.9%
v7.7
13.3%
v7.6
10.1%
Other
6.6%
Top Alternatives to Civist – Petitions and Fundraising
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Release 7.9.0 – 2025-12-18
Feature Additions
- The plugin is ready for WordPress 6.9
- Slovak translations got an update
- The plugin’s GDPR info was updated: MailGun was removed from the subprocessor list
Release 7.8.0 – 2025-07-03
Contributors
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