WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub)
A WebSub plugin for WordPress that enables real-time publishing and subscription capabilities.
5(6 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub) is a WordPress feed plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.1M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 18% this week. Top alternative: RSS for Yandex Turbo.
5/56 reviews
100K+active installs
2.1M+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
This plugin implements the WebSub protocol (formerly known as PubSubHubbub) for WordPress. It enables real-time notifications when your blog is updated and provides a subscriber API for other plugins to consume WebSub-enabled feeds.
Publisher Features
When you publish or update a post, this plugin automatically notifies WebSub hubs, which then distribute the update to all subscribers in real-time.
- Sends realtime notifications when you update your blog
- Supports multi-user installations (WordPress MU)
- Supports multiple hubs
- Supports all feed formats used by WordPress (Atom, RSS2, RDF)
- Adds
<link rel="hub">and<link rel="self">declarations to feeds and HTML
Subscriber Features
The plugin provides a subscriber API that allows other plugins (like feed readers) to subscribe to W…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works No Problems
by totalgaz·2 years ago
Just learnt more on the benefits of using WebSub a.k.a PubSubHubbub and love that this plugin did the necessary code to the feed instantly. I can see it worked as a newly published blog was discovered instantly by Googlebot after publish using the marked up feed url that I had submitted to search console sitemaps.
Good Plugin
by upgradeorid·3 years ago
Good and simple plugin
Indispensable?
by dmsr·3 years ago
Je l’installe systématiquement depuis bien longtemps sur tous mes sites!
Best Update Plugin
by Adebowale Adekoya·6 years ago
This is the best update plugin so far.
Simple Plugin, Obscure Topic
by fredhead·12 years ago
I needed pubsubhubbub, whatever that is, as part of my WordPress install and this plugin made it brain dead easy to add that capability to my online magazine. So thanks! Now I have to work on figuring out what it does beyond handling behind the scenes notifications of new content through Superfeedr. 😎
Download Trends
Today: 313Yesterday: 316This week: 2KPeriod total: 127K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.0
42.5%
v3.2
27.7%
v3.1
14.3%
v3.0
12.1%
Other
3.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Project maintained on GitHub at pubsubhubbub/wordpress-pubsubhubbub.
4.0.0
- Added WebSub Subscriber API with hooks for consumer plugins
- Deprecated all
pubsubhubbub_*hooks in favor ofwebsub_*prefix (old hooks still work) - Replaced Grunt and Docker with wp-env for local development
- Fixed double-escaping issues in feed discovery …
Contributors
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