Messaging and community media
The plugin names point to distinct messaging- and media-oriented areas within BuddyPress. Better Messages leads this group at 10,000 active installs, while rtMedia has 7,000 and MediaPress has 3,000; the latter two names foreground media.
Member profiles and profile discovery
Profile-related plugins range from member search and custom fields to bulk profile editing.
- BP Profile Search: 5,000 active installs; its name aligns with the profile tag, shared by 34 plugins in the category.
- BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types: 3,000 active installs, also profile-oriented by name.
- Bulk Edit and Create User Profiles: 1,000 active installs; the related members and users tags appear across 36 and 16 plugins, respectively.
Community extensions and related plugin areas
BuddyPress extensions sit alongside plugins associated with groups, activity and other community areas.
- BuddyPress Docs: 6,000 active installs.
- BP Classic: 6,000 active installs.
- Youzify: 5,000 active installs.
- BuddyPress Builder for Elementor: 1,000 active installs.
- Related tags: groups appears across 50 plugins and activity across 48; bbPress, community and BuddyBoss appear across 20, 18 and 15, respectively.
What BuddyPress adoption and maintenance numbers mean for choosing
BuddyPress has a broad plugin count but limited high-install adoption, and recent updates are uncommon across the category. Of 434 plugins, only one has 10,000 or more active installs, none has 100,000 or more, and 18% were updated in the last year.
Better Messages is that 10,000-install plugin; it was updated this month and has an excellent rating from a moderate number of reviews. rtMedia has 7,000 installs, was also updated this month, and has a mixed rating from a moderate number of reviews. At 6,000 installs, WPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss was updated this month and has an excellent rating from few reviews, while BP Classic was updated three months ago and is unrated.