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BuddyPress Instant Chat

BuddyPress Instant Chat has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

10+

Rating

3.7★

wp.org · 3 reviews

Downloads / 30d

49

Momentum

+53% low volume

30d vs the 30d before

Against 1179 tracked Chat & Support plugins: health 45 vs 64 average · rating, weighted for review count, 3.9★ vs 3.8★.

What we found

2 critical 1 opportunity 2 market context
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Open security vulnerability

Critical

A known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.

What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.

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No update in 125 months

Critical

wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users look for a recent release.

What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.

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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 3 ratings. A handful of reviews makes your star average fragile and weakens trust at install time.

What to do: Run a structured in-plugin review prompt and a review campaign.

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Small download base. 49 downloads in 30 days, so a +53% move is a few installs rather than a trend.

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Light support activity. Few recent support threads, so there is no backlog to report.

Downloads, last 2 years

From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.

019 Sep 2026

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