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bbPress Capabilities

by John James Jacoby · Uncategorized

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Advanced user capability editing, specifically for bbPress

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

100+

Active installs

≈190 estimated

6.1K

Total downloads

since 2014

3.87★

Rating (adjusted)

3.8★ raw · 5 reviews

+72%

55

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4510 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+72% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

55

now · peak 79

5530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

bbPress Capabilities · #16227 you Members · #185 wpForo Forum · #1381 Restrict User Access · #1581

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.8Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

550per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

12.4y ago

latest release · v1.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 12.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,384 observations

100Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
1 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
12.4y ago
Added
2014-04-26 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ hrobjartur
    9.5y ago

    I installed the plug-in on my current setup 4.7.2 and could not get the plugin to work ;-(

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  2. ★★★★★ matt_sawyers
    11.2y ago

    You can edit individual users, but it would be nice to setup a “default” profile to assign to new users that you could then edit from there rather than editing every user individually. Needs a mass user edit tool

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  3. ★★★★★ Tonoid
    11.2y ago

    How this plugin works? How to configure? There is no guidance.

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  4. ★★★★★ Ben Hansen
    11.7y ago

    great for solving bbpress issues should they arise!

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  5. ★★★★★ Stephen Edgar
    12.3y ago

    A great plugin to customise individual users bbPress capabilities.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2023-05-14 200+ → 100+ down after 7 days in tier
  2. 2023-05-07 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-05-06 200+ → 100+ down

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