Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
BuddyPress
Active installs90,000+ rounded
Current authorBuddyPress
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release30 days ago 29 Jul 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record273
Rating4.1 /5 · 375
Added to directory23 Apr 2009
Requires WP6.1
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by BuddyPress throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Full observed history, including every field transition
Committing accounts
Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.
| Account | Releases | First | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| apeatling | 15 | 30 Apr 2009 | 23 May 2010 |
| johnjamesjacoby | 37 | 29 Jun 2010 | 29 Jun 2017 |
| DJPaul | 33 | 22 Dec 2010 | 26 Oct 2018 |
| boonebgorges | 43 | 11 Sep 2011 | 21 Apr 2020 |
| imath | 106 | 07 Oct 2014 | 22 Oct 2024 |
| dcavins | 23 | 31 Mar 2016 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| mercime | 4 | 22 Sep 2016 | 19 Oct 2016 |
| slaFFik | 2 | 19 Jan 2017 | 15 Feb 2017 |
| netweb | 6 | 09 Mar 2017 | 10 Mar 2017 |
| hnla | 1 | 28 Jul 2017 | 28 Jul 2017 |
| Otto42 | 3 | 03 Apr 2018 | 03 Apr 2018 |
This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Widely adopted: 90,000+ active installs. Among the more broadly installed plugins in the directory.
907 downloads a day over the last 7 days, falling 18% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
08 Aug 2026peak 5,414/day29 Aug 2026
Install band fell to 90,000+ on 03 Aug 2026, from 100,000+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 16 Aug | 17 Aug | 18 Aug | 19 Aug | 20 Aug | 21 Aug | 22 Aug | 23 Aug | 24 Aug | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 1,007 | 995 | 1,394 | 988 | 1,292 | 1,107 | 744 | 690 | 915 | 930 | 0 | 1,815 | 1,253 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (375) · active installs (90,000+) · version (14.5.2) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
28 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory17 years ago 23 Apr 2009
Requires WP6.1
Requires PHP5.6
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 29 Jul 2026, 31 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- The same account maintains 1 other plugin, 1 of which was updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.
- 02 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 100,000+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 202627 days agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 29 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 14.5.2 released
- 29 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 11.6.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 29 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 12.7.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 07 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 11.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 07 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 12.7.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 07 Jul 20262 months agoVersion 14.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 27 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 11.5.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 24 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 11.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 24 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 12.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 24 Sep 202511 months agoVersion 14.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 21 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 11.4.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 20 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 12.5.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 20 Mar 202517 months agoVersion 14.3.4 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by dcavins.
- 30 Apr 200917 years ago260 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 30 Apr 2009 and 29 Nov 2024. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
- 23 Apr 200917 years agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by BuddyPress for all 28 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 30 days ago (29 Jul 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 90,000+ active installs.
- It carries 375 ratings, averaging 4.1 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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