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WP Recipe Maker

The easy and user-friendly recipe plugin for everyone. Automatic JSON-LD metadata for food AND how-to recipes will improve your SEO!

★★★★★5.0 (356) · 50k+ active installs
Free
Website ↗ WordPress.org ↗
what mrrlens sees
MRR · Freemium · upsell unknownPrice not published
Opportunity—
Buyer threads · 30 d0
“One of the most fundamental function that is needed to have freedom over your data is only in paid version.”
#1 complaint · Pricing · 1 of 2 complaints read · analysed Oct 29, 2026 · source

01Revenue

Price not publishedFreemium · upsell unknown
Why there is no estimate

WP Recipe Maker has a paid tier, but the listing publishes no price. Without one, any revenue figure would rest on a guessed price, so MRRLens shows none and leaves revenue out of its opportunity score.

Exploratory math, not an estimate: if it charged a typical price for its marketplace, active users × paid conversion × monthly price would give $2k–10k a month. Assumptions: active users: 50k; 0.5%–2.5% of active users pay; no public price: assumed $8.00/month, typical for this marketplace. Methodology.

3 daily snapshots · growth 30 d: —

Store data from the WordPress.org listing, refreshed daily. Updated 2 h ago. Listed since 2016.

02Why users leave WP Recipe Maker

5★98%
4★1%
3★0%
2★0%
1★1%
Pricing1 review · 1 of 2

Export is paywalled; users must hack phpMyAdmin to move recipes, so data freedom feels restricted.

“One of the most fundamental function that is needed to have freedom over your data is only in paid version.” source ↗

Sample: 2 recent complaints (1–3★ reviews) · clustered Oct 29, 2026 · complaints from Apr 2020–Jan 2023, none in the last 24 months — history, not today · each review labelled by a model, quotes verbatim

03How to build a better WP Recipe Maker

Build difficultyLowWordPress plugin; no payments, regulation, hardware, or network effects; export/import is straightforward.
Three build ideas that answer these complaintsIncluded in the day pass and Pro.
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04Who wants a better WP Recipe Maker

0 buyer threads in the last 30 days name WP Recipe Maker.

05Questions about WP Recipe Maker

How much revenue does WP Recipe Maker make?

MRRLens shows no revenue figure for WP Recipe Maker. It sells a paid tier but does not publish the price, and an estimate built on an assumed price would be a guess. The exploratory math is on the page, labelled as such.

What do users complain about most in WP Recipe Maker?

Across 2 recent complaints, the most common is pricing (1 of 2). Export is paywalled; users must hack phpMyAdmin to move recipes, so data freedom feels restricted.

What are the best WP Recipe Maker alternatives?

The closest alternatives MRRLens found are WP Delicious, Recipe Card Blocks Lite and Create. The full list, with why users leave, is on the WP Recipe Maker alternatives page.

How many people use WP Recipe Maker?

WP Recipe Maker lists 50k+ active installs on WordPress.org, rated 5.0 (356).

See the full x-ray of WP Recipe Maker

Full 1-star breakdown with verbatim quotes, the build blueprint and every live thread — on every product.