BuddyPress Social
by nit3watch · Social
Bringing social engagement to Buddypress - let your community share to their hearts content all while promoting your website to social networks.
40 health vs 55 average across 829 Social plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4745 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
24
now · peak 87
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-28 50+ → 40+ down after 156 days in band
- 2025-11-23 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in band
- 2025-11-17 50+ → 60+ up after 3 days in band
- 2025-11-14 60+ → 50+ down after 99 days in band
- 2025-08-07 50+ → 60+ up after 15 days in band
- 2025-07-23 60+ → 50+ down after 65 days in band
- 2025-05-19 70+ → 60+ down after 170 days in band
- 2024-11-30 80+ → 70+ down after 14 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Social Media Widget 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D -
Seed Social 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar 4K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D -
Open Graphite 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C -
Social Sharing (by Danny) 2K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/buddypress-social" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="BuddyPress Social — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> BuddyPress Social: 40+ active installs, 2.9★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/buddypress-social