Hostel is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 12 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Hostel is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Bob. With a rating of 4.5★ from 12 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Hostel is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 12 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Bob — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (12) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Hostel works
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Create your hostel, small hotel, or BnB site with WordPress.
Hostel is online booking system with easy back-end management.
You can publish the booking forms, room calendars, and room lists with shortcodes so the plugin fits any WordPress theme.
Features
Manage your booking mode: accept Paypal, manual payments, or don’t allow online booking
Manage email notifications
Manage rooms, beds, and prices
Set unavailable dates when you are on vacations or just don’t want to accept guests in some rooms
Manage bookings, process payments, contact customers
List your rooms by using shortcodes
Supports iCal / .ics to synchronize bookings with online systems. You can export and import bookings to/from all popular booking sites like Booking.com, AirBnB.com, Hotels.com etc.
Localization / translation – ready
Mobile / touch – friendly
There are more and better features + premium support in the PRO version. Check it on our new site: wp-hostel.com
Getting Started
Go to Hostel link in your admin menu to manage your rooms and rates.
Use the shortcodes to install a list of your rooms or to add the booking code to a post or page where you have described your rooms.
Set up unavailable dates if you have such.
Shortcodes
[wphostel-list] will display a table with your available rooms. A date selector on the top lets the user choose dates of their visit and then the rooms list is updated. If you have enabled booking in your Hostel settings page, the table will also show “Book” button when appropriate. The button will automaically load the booking form. You can pass the attribute “max_days” to specify the maximum day interval that can be selected to show the table.
[wphostel-booking] displays a generic booking form with a drop-down selector for choosing room, and a date selector. If you use the [wphostel-list] shortcode you most probably do not need this one because the booking form is automatically generated.
For translating the plugin check the Help page under the Hostel menu in your administration.
Community Translations The following translations are currently available. Please note they are maintained by volunteer translators and we can’t guarantee their accuracy.
Spanish: wphostel-es_ES.mo | wphostel-es_ES.po
Keyword rankings
Hostel ranks for 3 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
- Rank #772
- Rank #776
- Rank #967
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Hostel?
Hostel is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 12 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Bob.