BP Auto Group Join
by Syed Balkhi · Uncategorized
Also makes 98 other plugins · 21.7M+ installs across the portfolio →
Automatically join BuddyPress members to Groups.
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Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
600+
≈700 estimated
Momentum
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no download trend yet
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 2/100. Last updated 2200 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
46 health vs 58 average across 25,736 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →3.3%
of downloads still active
At least 600 of 18K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,769 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24.
Details
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2200 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24; the current branch is 6.8
4.5★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.14★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2200 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 201 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
6.0y ago
latest release · v1.0.4 · 22 Oct 2020
5
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 9 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 700.
Install history since 7 Oct 2016
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Bigue Nique5.5y ago
This is an essential functionality for a community, and it’s nice to have a free plugin for this. But the plugin is not compatible with BuddyBoss Platform (a BuddyPress fork by BuddyBoss). When activated with BuddyBoss Platform (BuddyX free theme), everything seems to work as expected in the back-end, but the plugins causes a critical error on group pages on the front-end. Also, the member type functionality, which supports BP Member Types, is not compatible with member types as native to the BuddyBoss Platform. Overall, I find this plugin is pretty useful and functional, but it doesn’t play along well with a BuddyBoss fork, BuddyBoss Platform. I would have put 5 stars anyways if this plugin was not published by BuddyBoss themselves, the creators of the BuddyBoss Platform. Please make this work with your very own BP fork!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ AiratTop8.8y ago
I like this plugin. Simple and helpful!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Webprom Design10.3y ago
I found that it breaks MailPoet famous plugin. Still it seems to work with BP. Developers must fix errors.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Varun Dubey10.6y ago
It works great with Member Type
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Zarko Dencic11.0y ago
works as expected…
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Paresh Radadiya11.0y ago
Seems useful for almost any BuddyPress site
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.1
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions BuddyPress, BuddyBoss.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 406 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text No tags set.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-22 700+ → 600+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-10-20 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-10-18 700+ → 600+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-10-15 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-14 700+ → 600+ down after 137 days in tier
- 2026-05-30 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-29 700+ → 800+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2026-05-21 800+ → 700+ down after 160 days in tier
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