BuddyPress
Powerful plugin that takes your WordPress.org powered site beyond the blog with social-network features like user profiles, activity streams, user groups, and more.
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Still maintained? Yes: 119 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Facebook Groups.
At a glance
BuddyPress quick facts
- Health score
- 55/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 258
- Last commit
- 7 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Top alternatives to BuddyPress
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin to power you community site. It is a PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript based project, and uses Node for its JavaScript dependencies. A local development environment is available to quickly get up and running."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
BuddyPress scores 55/100, #37 of 40 in Communication - Social Networks and Forums: 119 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 258 stars add 9.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
119 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 9.7 / 20
258 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 119
- Last 90 days
- 163
- Last 12 months
- 7 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #37 of 40 tools in Communication - Social Networks and Forums by health , between Flarum (#36) and diaspora* (#38) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 258 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | buddypress/BuddyPress ↗ |
BuddyPress vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with BuddyPress (Communication - Social Networks and Forums), scored on the same five terms.
BuddyPress: common questions
What does BuddyPress replace?
Repoly lists BuddyPress as an open-source alternative to Facebook Groups. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where BuddyPress stands against the others.
Is BuddyPress still maintained?
BuddyPress had 119 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.