Private groups

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 94% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ smoothkeyboard62

   2.0y ago

   Exactly what I needed. A simple, yet powerful solution. Very well documented inside the Settings area.

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2. ★★★★★ olesuper8

   3.2y ago

   Just works wonderfully, I’m really impressed.

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3. ★★★★★ acrspf

   3.2y ago

   While testing, I was already impressed with the functionality, then had a minor bug issue and it was fixed within 24 hours with a few emails. Now that’s superb support 🙂 Super plugin that works great and helped with some real headaches. The interface is intuitive and powerful without being complex. This allows the sort of finer grained permissions that WordPress should incorporate in the first place. -Andy from the US

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4. ★★★★★ mllapan

   3.7y ago

   This plugin unfortunately is a total mess.We need a simple plugin that let us make bbPress private.Such a plugin is for advanced things, but even like that it is very confusing.Forum Visibility tab.This tab allows you to set forum visibility.By default where the forum has groups set, then these are only visible to authorised users. However you may want users to see that forums exist (to attract new forum users), but not to see content.I am like: “What?”I did not create any groups of anything as I know.Movies don’t start from the end, or the middle but from the beginning, and so should tutorials. This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by mllapan.

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5. ★★★★★ DeepBlue

   3.7y ago

   Works great as intended A great addition to a bbPress forum easy to install & configure

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6. ★★★★★ Dani

   3.8y ago

   The plugin comes with quite a few settings, but once you get a little familiar with it, it works well and you can control bbPress very well!

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7. ★★★★★ pauliverbot

   5.2y ago

   I installed and configured the plugin for the membership site I am building and it is working great! The best thing is, that the developer (Robin) helped me within some hours to resolve a specific configuration I needed for my site. Great support! 6/5 stars 🙂

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8. ★★★★★ Lepalois

   5.6y ago

   Vraiment un très bon plugin mis à jour régulièrement. On fait des assemblages entre les groupes (visibilité, écriture, modifier, etc). Seul petit reproche, ne pas afficher le nom du groupe sous l’avatar si l’on le souhaite.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

Translated into 128 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 104 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-07-26 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-07-25 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-07-22 2K+ → 1K+ down after 5 days in tier
4. 2025-07-17 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2025-07-16 2K+ → 1K+ down after 920 days in tier
6. 2023-01-08 3K+ → 2K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• P Private forums visibility 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags D
• bbp style pack 6K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• B bbP topic count 300+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• B bbp user ranking 200+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• B bbp last post 200+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• B bbp profile information 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B

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Private groups: 1K+ active installs, 4.9★ (49 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bbp-private-groups