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Maintained Tested up to 6.9.9 #2 in domain registration

WH4U Domains

Domain reseller plugin for searching, registering, and transferring domains via the DomainsReseller API.

Active installs<10New
Downloads · 30d53▲ +17.8% vs prev. 30d
Rating—0 reviews
Health score46/100Fair
All-time downloads509Since Apr 2026
Support resolved1 / 1100% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 6.2PHP 7.4+
Downloads · 7d14• 0% week over week
Our verdict

Use with caution

WH4U Domains works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 5 months ago, and scores 46/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (<10 active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.9 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

134Jul 1Aug 14Sep 28
Yesterday0
Daily average (1y)3
Peak day49Apr 14, 2026
Last 12 months516

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where WH4U Domains stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
domain registration >100 1,751 Best domain registration plugins →
domain search >100 4,771 Best domain search plugins →
domains >100 10,000 Best domains plugins →
reseller #49 117 Best reseller plugins →
TLD #30 89 Best TLD plugins →

About WH4U Domains

From the official readme · v1.5.6

Description

WH4U Domains is a WordPress plugin that allows website owners and resellers to offer domain name services directly from their WordPress site. It integrates with the DomainsReseller API to provide real-time domain availability checking, registration, and transfer capabilities.

Features

  • Domain Search — Visitors can search for domain availability via a shortcode or Gutenberg block
  • Public Registration & Transfer — Anonymous visitors can submit domain registration and transfer requests that admins review and approve
  • Admin Dashboard — Full admin panel for managing orders, viewing API status, and monitoring the retry queue
  • Reseller Support — Per-user API credentials allow multi-reseller setups
  • Retry Queue — Failed API calls are automatically retried with exponential backoff
  • Shopping Cart Redirect — Optional redirect to WHMCS, Blesta, ClientExec, Upmind, or custom cart URL with the domain pre-filled when visitors click Register or Transfer
  • Internationalization — Fully translatable; Greek translation included

How It Works

  1. Install and activate the plugin
  2. Configure your DomainsReseller API credentials under Domains > Settings
  3. Add the [wh4u_domain_lookup] shortcode or the “Domain Lookup” block to any page
  4. Visitors search for domains — available domains can be registered, and taken domains can be transferred through the frontend form (or, if configured, sent to your WHMCS/Blesta/ClientExec/Upmind cart with the domain in the URL)
  5. Admins review and approve/reject public orders from the WordPress admin

Third-Party Service

This plugin connects to the DomainsReseller API provided by WebHosting4U to perform all domain-related operations.

What data is sent

  • Domain lookups: The domain name being searched is sent to check availability
  • Domain registration: Registrant contact information (name, email, phone, address, company, country), the domain name, registration period, nameservers, and addon preferences are sent to process the registration
  • Domain transfer: Domain name, registration period, and EPP code are sent
  • TLD queries: Requests for available TLDs are sent

When data is sent

  • When a visitor performs a domain search on the frontend
  • When an admin approves a public domain registration order
  • When an admin submits a registration or transfer order from the admin panel
  • When TLD lists are loaded (cached locally for 12 hours)

Service details

Cloudflare Turnstile (optional)

When Turnstile bot protection is enabled in Settings, this plugin loads the Cloudflare Turnstile JavaScript widget on pages with the domain lookup form and sends the challenge response token to Cloudflare for server-side verification before processing public orders.

Data stored locally

This plugin stores the following data on your WordPress installation:

  • Order records: domain name, registration period, status, and encrypted registrant contact details (encrypted with AES-256-CBC + HMAC at rest)
  • Public order submissions: stored as a custom post type with encrypted contact data until an administrator approves or rejects them
  • API logs and notification records: request/response entries and email/webhook dispatch history with secrets redacted. A daily WP-Cron task prunes rows older than 30 days; the retention period is filterable via the wh4u_log_retention_days filter.
  • Retry queue: failed API calls scheduled for exponential-backoff retry via WP-Cron
  • Rate-limit counters: short-lived transients keyed by user ID or a salted SHA-256 hash of the visitor IP; used only for abuse protection and expire within minutes
  • Reseller settings: per-user API credentials, with the API key and optional webhook secret encrypted at rest

No data is sent to any third party other than the services listed above.

Installation

  1. Upload the wh4u-domains folder to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  3. Go to Domains > Settings > Credentials and enter your DomainsReseller API email and API key
  4. Set your default nameservers under the same Credentials tab
  5. Go to Domains > Settings > General to choose between Real-time or Notification-only registration mode
  6. (Optional) Under General, set Shopping Cart Redirect to WHMCS, Blesta, ClientExec, Upmind, or Custom and enter your cart URL so visitors are sent to your cart with the domain pre-filled
  7. Add [wh4u_domain_lookup] to any page, or use the “Domain Lookup” Gutenberg block

Frequently asked questions

Do I need a DomainsReseller account?

Yes. You need valid API credentials from WebHosting4U to use this plugin. Without credentials, the domain search will not function.

Can visitors register domains without logging in?

Yes. The frontend form allows anonymous visitors to submit registration and transfer requests. These are stored as pending orders that an admin must approve before the domain is processed through the API.

What happens if the API is temporarily unavailable?

Orders that fail due to temporary API issues (timeouts, server errors) are automatically queued for retry with exponential backoff. The retry queue processes items via WP-Cron.

Can I send customers to my WHMCS (or other) cart instead of the built-in form?

Yes. Under Domains > Settings > General, use the Shopping Cart Redirect section. Choose WHMCS, Blesta, ClientExec, Upmind, or Custom URL template, and enter your cart base URL (or full URL templates with {domain}, {sld}, {tld}). When a visitor clicks Register or Transfer, they will be redirected to your cart with the domain pre-filled.

Is the plugin translatable?

Yes. The plugin is fully internationalized. A Greek translation is included. Additional translations can be added via .po/.mo files in the languages/ directory.

Changelog

1.5.6

  • Fix: Custom shopping-cart URL templates that used only {sld} and {tld} placeholders (the pattern shown in the admin example) were treated as “not configured”, so visitors clicking Register or Transfer always saw the built-in plugin form instead of being redirected. WH4U_Cart_Redirect::is_configured() now accepts any of {domain}, {sld}, or {tld}.
  • Improved: Shopping Cart Redirect settings page rewritten with clearer, novice-friendly help text — explains when to use each cart type, what each placeholder means, and which fields apply to which cart type.

1.5.5

  • Removed: TLD Pricing admin page and all pricing-related code paths. The upstream DomainsReseller API /tlds/pricing endpoint returns registrationPrice: null for TLDs whose registry enforces multi-year registration minimums (notably .gr, which requires a 2-year minimum), so a pricing table rendered from this endpoint cannot reliably display prices for every reseller-enabled TLD. Rather than half-showing data, the “View Pricing” tile on the dashboard now links out to the authoritative WHMCS pricing page at https://webhosting4u.gr/customers/index.php?m=DomainsReseller&mg-page=Prices
  • Removed: admin/class-wh4u-admin-pricing.php, rest-api/class-wh4u-rest-pricing.php, the /wh4u/v1/tlds, /wh4u/v1/tlds/pricing, /wh4u/v1/tlds/pricing/cache, and /wh4u/v1/pricing/(register|transfer) REST endpoints, the wh4u_tld_pricing_v2 transient, the loadPricing() admin JS routine, the frontend prefetchPricing() / getPriceForTld() code path, the show_pricing appearance setting, the showPricing block attribute, the data-show-pricing shortcode data attribute, and the .wh4u-domains__result-price CSS rules
  • Changed: dashboard “View Pricing” quick link is now an external link (opens the WHMCS pricing page in a new tab with rel="noopener noreferrer")

1.5.4

  • Fix: TLD pricing page left the register column blank for ccTLDs whose upstream response emits an empty registrationPrice field because they have no 1-year tier (notably .gr, whose registry enforces a 2-year minimum). extract_price() in the REST pricing controller now skips empty scalars/arrays instead of accepting the first matching key, recurses into nested period-keyed arrays picking the lowest numeric period (so {"2":"24.00","4":"48.00"} surfaces the 2-year price), and as a last resort scans period-suffixed variants like register2 or registrationPrice_2y
  • Added: “Refresh Cache” button on the TLD Pricing admin page, backed by a new DELETE /wh4u/v1/tlds/pricing/cache endpoint (gated by the wh4u_manage_domains capability) that clears both the wh4u_tld_pricing_v2 and wh4u_tlds_cache transients; needed because the previous normalization was cached for 12 hours and existing sites would otherwise keep serving stale empty prices after upgrade

1.5.3

  • i18n: reinstated load_plugin_textdomain() on the init hook so self-hosted installs load translations correctly under WordPress 6.7+ (where gettext calls before init no longer resolve the user locale)
  • i18n: replaced string concatenation patterns (__( 'API call failed: ' ) . $msg, $label . ' ' . __( 'Contact' ), $period . ' ' . __( 'year(s)' )) with sprintf/_n against %s/%d placeholders in admin-dashboard, admin-domains, admin-history, and notifications; word order can now be reordered per locale without code changes
  • i18n: replaced the hardcoded English ' yr' unit in the order history period column with a proper _n( '%d year', '%d years' ) plural form
  • i18n: added translator comments (/* translators: ... */) on every new sprintf/_n call per the WordPress handbook
  • i18n: regenerated wh4u-domains.pot (412 strings) from the updated source, merged into wh4u-domains-el.po, and translated the remaining 77 previously-untranslated Greek strings (Frontend Appearance panel, Shopping Cart Redirect, Turnstile, Reverse Proxy / Trusted IPs, Public Orders post type + status plurals, block editor title/description/keywords, encryption key notices)
  • i18n: rebuilt wh4u-domains-el.mo and the JSON translation file consumed by wp_set_script_translations(); removed two orphan JSON files whose source field held malformed artifacts ((JS, i18n)) from a prior tooling run

1.5.2

  • Security: encryption key management rewrite — removed the auto-generate-to-wp_options fallback so decryption keys are never created in the database; added a one-shot idempotent migration (guarded by a 5-minute transient lock) that re-encrypts reseller settings, order contacts, site settings, and public-order PII postmeta under the preferred WH4U_ENCRYPTION_KEY / AUTH_KEY-derived key and only deletes the legacy wp_options key after every row migrates successfully
  • Security: webhook delivery now passes redirection => 0 to wp_remote_post(), closing a redirect-based SSRF bypass where a crafted 3xx response could divert a webhook away from the validated/pinned host
  • Security: save_reseller_settings() in the admin reseller screen now re-verifies the wh4u_reseller_settings_nonce inside the save handler (defense-in-depth alongside the existing check_admin_referer() wrapper)
  • Security: defense-in-depth (int) cast on $item->order_id in the retry queue before it reaches $wpdb->prepare() with a %d placeholder, eliminating any theoretical type-confusion path regardless of upstream callers
  • Security: removed the unused WH4U_Logger::get_logs() method so the admin-only log reader no longer exists as latent attack surface (no callers in the plugin)

1.5.1

  • i18n: compiled Greek .mo binary from the existing .po catalogue so WordPress gettext loads translations at runtime without relying on a language pack
  • i18n: all public-facing form labels (First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Address, City, State/Province, Country Code, Zip/Postal Code, Registration Period, Transfer Period, EPP/Auth Code, etc.) now render in Greek on el locale sites

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Admin dashboard with quick domain search and shortcuts to register, transfer, and renew actions.
Admin dashboard with quick domain search and shortcuts to register, transfer, and renew…
Settings screen: API credentials, registration mode, and shopping cart redirect configuration.
Settings screen: API credentials, registration mode, and shopping cart redirect…
Admin Register Domain form with domain details, nameservers, and registrant contact fields.
Admin Register Domain form with domain details, nameservers, and registrant contact…

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FAQ

WH4U Domains: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 29, 2026

Is WH4U Domains free?

Yes. WH4U Domains is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is WH4U Domains safe to use in 2026?

WH4U Domains works, but test it on a staging site before relying on it in 2026. Was last updated 5 months ago, and scores 46/100 on our health check.

How many websites use WH4U Domains?

WH4U Domains is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 509 times since it launched in April 2026. It was downloaded 53 times in the last 30 days.

Does WH4U Domains work with WordPress 7.1?

WH4U Domains is officially tested up to WordPress 6.9.9, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does WH4U Domains need?

WH4U Domains requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was WH4U Domains last updated?

The latest version, 1.5.6, was released on April 26, 2026 (5 months ago).

Who makes WH4U Domains?

WH4U Domains is developed and maintained by webhosting4ugr.

What are the best alternatives to WH4U Domains?

The most popular alternatives to WH4U Domains are Domain Search for WHMCS (200+ installs).

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