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About BuddyPress

BuddyPress is not a platform in its own right, and treating a detection as one will mislead you. What we find is a plugin that converts an existing WordPress installation into a membership site, adding profiles, activity streams, connections between members, private messaging and groups. The site underneath is still WordPress. The plugin is what tells you the operator wanted members rather than readers.

Wanting members is an expensive decision, which is what makes the signal worth having. A publishing site can be left alone for months. A community cannot, because it needs moderation, spam control, a support path when someone loses access, and a reason for people to come back. Courses, alumni networks, professional associations, non-profits, coaching businesses and fan communities are the recurring shapes. Anyone selling moderation tooling, member payments, email for communities, forums or single sign-on is looking for exactly this population and has no easy way to enumerate it, because a membership site looks like an ordinary blog from the outside.

Licensing and ownership shape the population too. The plugin is GPL v2 and free to install, released by Automattic, and free installation means adoption costs nothing and abandonment costs nothing either. Some domains in the list are thriving communities and some are activations from years ago that nobody removed. Telling them apart takes the rest of the record rather than the plugin field, such as whether a payment or membership extension is present, whether the site sits on a custom domain, and whether it reappears in successive snapshots with signs of maintenance.

Maintenance is where the version data earns its place. We record 109 distinct release strings across the population, and 14.5.2 is the one we currently see most often as of October 2026. The plugin dates to 2008 and is written in PHP, and it updates only when someone applies the update, so a very old release next to a current WordPress core is a good indicator of a site that is running but unattended. Security researchers and agencies pitching maintenance retainers both work that segment directly.

As of October 2026 we detect BuddyPress on 2,320 sites. A per-domain lookup confirms a single site and stops there. The full list supports the questions that matter commercially, which are how the population distributes across countries and domain suffixes, which hosts carry a disproportionate share, which payment and course plugins travel alongside, and how the group changes between snapshots as communities launch and go quiet. Our export gives the domain, the detected release where a version is exposed, the observation date and the co-installed technologies, and leaves the version field empty rather than guessing when an install does not reveal one.