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BuddyStream

BuddyStream has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

10+

Rating

2.2★

wp.org · 25 reviews

Downloads / 30d

78

Momentum

-27% low volume

30d vs the 30d before

Against 1835 tracked Social plugins: health 38 vs 58 average · rating, weighted for review count, 2.7★ vs 3.8★.

What we found

2 critical 2 to fix 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 127 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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Rating below category benchmark

Needs work

Your rating, weighted for review count, is 2.7★ and trails the Social average of 3.8★.

What to do: Close the gap with targeted UX fixes and review recovery.

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Readme fails 6 of 8 AI readiness checks

Needs work

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: says what it does, has a faq, faq asks real questions, names who it is for, headings and lists and enough to quote. Short description is 11 characters, too short to say what the plugin does.

What to do: Rewrite the readme so each failed check passes: say the job in the first line, answer real questions in the FAQ, name who it is for and what it works with, and use headings and lists. For the same check on your plugin's own website, run the free AI visibility scan from AgentVania.

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Small download base. 78 downloads in 30 days, so a -27% 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.

52 Nov 2026

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