Liveblog
Empowers website owners to provide rich and engaging live event coverage to a large, distributed audience.
2.9(15 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Liveblog is a WordPress liveblog plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 2.9/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 93K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 75% this week. Top alternative: 24liveblog – live blog tool.
2.9/515 reviews
2.0K+active installs
93K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Your readers want your updates as quickly as possible, and we think we provide the easiest and the most flexible publishing environment to make that happen. Sometimes though, that’s just not enough.
When you’re covering a fast-paced event — the latest Apple unveiling, an F1 Grand Prix, or the Super Bowl — a full blog post for each individual update is a poor experience for your authors and your audience.
The WordPress.com VIP Liveblog Add-On was purpose-built to address these issues specifically.
Here’s what makes it special:
- Post updates right from the front-end of your site (no need to use the
/wp-admindashboard) - Viewers of your Liveblog get new entries served to them instantly and automatically, without needing to refresh their browser.
- Your authors can drag-and-drop photos right int…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Ok liveblog
by Bjørn Nielsen·2 years ago
Great plugins! Just need to figure out how they work… but once I do, they’re really well made
Awful Plugin
by edwardyves2·7 years ago
I think this plugin is not good at all. Plus the customer service is bad, to me it seem that person not really know how to addressing or resolve my issue.
Plug-in is off
by Andrew·7 years ago
Плагин выключен. И не больше не работает. Поддержка исчезла. На странице их сайта замок.
The plugin is disabled. And does not work anymore. Support disappeared. On the page of their site is the castle.
A few things broken
by smbutler79·7 years ago
The plugin does post information as specified and was a decent option when we used several work arounds to get our posts up cleanly. We are no longer using this plugin because of several broken features. Browsing through the support page, it looks like all of my complaints are on there with ZERO response from the developers. The apostrophe issue is the major one (code &x27; instead of ‘), embeds are not working as they should, word wrapping instead of breaking and the text editor has a scrolling window that continuously types content instead of wrapping making it very hard to see content. We need simplicity in design just like the WordPress Posts and Pages. Appreciate the effort as it is a powerful tool, just not 100% complete yet. I have non web people using the plugin and they need simple simple simple.
Not Good!
by kennylai5·7 years ago
Wish there is more tech support.
Download Trends
Today: 7Yesterday: 18This week: 107Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.9
83.1%
v1.11
15.6%
v1.5
1.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Please see the changelog on Github.
Contributors
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