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BuddyPress Group Tinychat

by John · Chat & Support

Also makes 1 other plugin · 20+ installs across the portfolio →

Chat Room for Buddypress Group

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 47/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

10+

≈15 estimated

Momentum

-48%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “buddypress” for “chatroom”. “buddypress” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “chatroom” sits at #13 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 64 average across 1,175 Chat & Support plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.1%

of downloads still active

At least 10 of 17.7K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Chat & Support plugin keeps 0.8%, across 629 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Chat & Support plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
11.1y ago
Added
2013-03-09 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
—
Tested up to
4.2.39
Requires PHP
—

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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 4069 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 4/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.2.39; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 60/100

4.9★ over 7 reviews, smoothed to 4.20★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 4069 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-48% vs prior 30d
031 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 61 · peaks are release surges

4331 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.931 Oct 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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

11.1y ago

latest release · v1.4 · 10 Sep 2015

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4 · 10 Sep 20151.2 · 25 Jun 20151.3 · 25 Jun 20151.1 · 25 Oct 20131.0 · 18 Mar 2013

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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈15

Crossed into this band 3.2 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 1 Apr 2015

1031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Georgio
    11.4y ago

    This plugin works fine for me. Thank you.

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  2. ★★★★★ sylviaivie
    12.8y ago

    I have this working on WP 3.8.1, buddy press in a member area in a group. Everyone spend the $ for the pro version the ability to size up is nice. And certainly worth the $ this author charges. Do NOT bother with going pro at TinyChat too. The features are not available to this plug in. Maybe John will get to that in a later vesrion. The only thing I wish was different and I don’t think it’s caused by this plug in is the ability to size up the fonts for those that are a bit visually challenged. It’s nearly impossible for some of my members to see the text without having to do all caps. Again that’s not this plug in’s problem… it’s tinychats. I’ll likely keep this version for my groups and find another service for the whole site depending on what I can find. In the mean time this will work. Thanks John!! Sylvia

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  3. ★★★★★ willandmae
    13.0y ago

    A quick but brief history of myself, a couple years ago I was so blessed with my second son being born, at age 51 I was ever so proud. Not even 2 weeks afterward he needed emergency heart surgery to rebuild his heart because he was born with CHD. You can follow his story at [Link redacted] and 6 weeks later on our way back I became ill. Now I am fighting Kidney Disease stage 2 and numerous other things to battle and at least I am on long term disability making about 1000 a month to survive with a family of 4. My battle to stay alive is a long one and each small battle I win is in the right direction to fight this war. Nevertheless, the last surgery I had is a lifelong change and a new lifestyle. I created an online support group because there is none here–there are facebook pages and while they are neat, their really not so functional. Anyway, with the Help of this Plugin BuddyPress Group TinyChat, I was able to create a support group site that should make our group proud but most of all enjoyable to use and share information. Thank you for an awesome plugin.

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  4. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    13.4y ago

    Hi, thanks for your plugin. It looks nice but I have some issues. 1. can’t find any translation file, maybe a pot file 2. want to login with buddypress user name and not with facebook, twitter or guest login Any chance to correct this? Regards, Thorsten

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  5. ★★★★★ yenrou
    13.5y ago

    This is the best wordpress chat plugin so far! It also supports Single-Sing-On. Automatic Login with your wp username also you don’t have to worry about your server anymore, it will not slow down your site. Really do what it says, the free plugin is good but the pro version he’s offering is the best, I can say so because I have it now. Thanks a lot 😀

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  6. ★★★★★ nolls
    13.6y ago

    The pro-version is a very good job. It works great. Thank you. My members love it.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ John
    13.7y ago

    [Link redacted]

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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

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

2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ! Says what it does Short description is 30 characters, too short to say what the plugin does.
  • ! 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, YouTube.
  • ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 839 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "groups", "groups chat" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-08-20 20+ → 10+ down after 60 days in tier
  2. 2023-06-21 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
  3. 2023-06-17 20+ → 30+ up after 133 days in tier
  4. 2023-02-04 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2023-02-02 20+ → 10+ down after 167 days in tier
  6. 2022-08-19 80+ → 20+ down after 1069 days in tier
  7. 2019-09-15 400+ → 80+ 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).

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BuddyPress Group Tinychat: 10+ active installs, 4.9★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bp-group-tinychat

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