BuddyPress Extended Profile Translation vs Polylang

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

BuddyPress Extended Profile Translation

by Markus Echterhoff

Health D45

Polylang

by Chouby

Health B80

Active-install trajectory

BuddyPress Extended Profile Translation Polylang

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	BuddyPress Extended Profile Translation	Polylang
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	800K–900K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 45	B · 80 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	94/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	28/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.71★ ✓
Reviews	1	2,988 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	38/100	85/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	7.8y ago	9d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	34	724.5K ✓
Category	Multilingual	Multilingual

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

BuddyPress Extended Profile Translation Polylang

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.