Membership & community plugin with user profiles, registration & login, member directories, content restriction, user roles and much more.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.4 (1.4K)
- Updated
- 8 days ago
BuddyPress
Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress.
- Active installs
- 90,000+
- #476 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 14M
- 13,989,399
- Downloads, 30 days
- 71.3K
- 37.7K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5
- 375 reviews
- Last updated
- 8 days ago
- Oct 23, 2026
- Version
- 14.5.4
- 278 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 23, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.1 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6 or newer |
| First published | April 23, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.1 / 5 from 375 reviews
| 5 stars | 250 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 37 |
| 3 stars | 17 |
| 2 stars | 19 |
| 1 star | 52 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Are you looking for modern, robust, and sophisticated social network software? BuddyPress is a suite of components that are common to a typical social network, and allows for great add-on features through WordPress’s extensive plugin system.
Aimed at site builders & developers, BuddyPress is focused on ease of integration, ease of use, and extensibility. It is deliberately powerful yet unbelievably simple social network software, built by contributors to WordPress.
Members can register on your site to create user profiles, have private conversations, make social connections, create and interact in groups, and much more. Truly a social network in a box, BuddyPress helps you build a home for your company, school, sports team, or other niche community.
Built with developers in mind
BuddyPress helps site builders & developers add community features to their websites. It comes with a robust theme compatibility API that does its best to make every BuddyPress content page look and feel right with just about any WordPress theme. You will likely need to adjust some styling on your own to make everything look pristine.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Can I use my existing WordPress theme?
Yes! BuddyPress works out-of-the-box with nearly every WordPress theme.
Will this work on WordPress multisite?
Yes! If your WordPress installation has multisite enabled, BuddyPress will support the global tracking of blogs, posts, comments, and even custom post types with a little bit of custom code.
Furthermore, BuddyPress can be activated and operate in just about any scope you need for it to:
- Activate at the site level to only load BuddyPress on that site.
Where can I get support?
Our community provides free support at https://buddypress.org/support/.
Where can I find documentation?
Our documentation site can be found at https://codex.buddypress.org/.
Where can I report a bug?
Report bugs, suggest ideas, and participate in development at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org.
Where can I get the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress?
Check out the development trunk of BuddyPress from Subversion at https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/, or clone from Git at git://buddypress.git.wordpress.org/.
Latest changelog entry
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-14-5-4/
Screenshots
Activity Streams - Global, personal, and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting and @mentions. All… 
Extended Profiles - Fully editable profile fields allow you to define the fields users can fill in to describe themselves. Tailor profile… 
User Settings - Give your users complete control over profile and notification settings. Settings are fully integrated into your theme,… 
Extensible Groups - Powerful public, private or hidden groups allow your users to break the discussion down into specific topics. Extend…
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.