Best activity stream plugins for WordPress
The most popular activity stream plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Disable User Gravatar leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Activity Plus Reloaded for BuddyPress (900+) and BuddyPress Edit Activity Stream (40+). All 15 plugins tagged “Activity Stream” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 activity stream plugins
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Disable User GravatarThe most installed activity stream plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 2.
Activity Plus Reloaded for BuddyPress900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
BuddyPress Edit Activity Stream40+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 15 years ago.
- 4.
BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago.
- 5.
BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 15 years ago.
- 6.
BuddyPress Activity Stream Hashtags10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago.
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BuddyPress XMLRPC10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago.
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BuddyPress Activity Stream Extras10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 14 years ago.
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BuddyPress XML-RPC Receiver10+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago.
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BuddyPress Activity Stream Ajax Notifier10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago.
All 15 plugins tagged “Activity Stream”
Disable User Gravatar
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,269by Marcus (aka @msykes)4 years ago
Stops WordPress from grabbing a user avatar using their registrated email from gravatar.com.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Activity Plus Reloaded for BuddyPress
Down in the last 7 days:32#7,016by BuddyDev1 year ago
Note: This plugin will be discontinued by March 31st, 2025 in favor of BuddyPress Attachment plugin. Please migrate to the new plugin before that date …
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 22/day
BuddyPress Edit Activity Stream
#22,671by rich! @ etiviti15 years ago
This plugin allows an user to edit their activity stream status update within a specified time period.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types
Down in the last 7 days:465#24,620by rich! @ etiviti15 years ago
This plugin will "block" an activity record from being saved to the stream/database. Such as new member registration, joining groups, friend …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top
Down in the last 7 days:146#25,308by rich! @ etiviti15 years ago
This plugin will "bump" an activity record to the top of the stream when activity comment reply is made.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream Hashtags
#32,378by rich! @ etiviti15 years ago
This plugin will convert #hashtags references to a link (activity search page) posted within the activity stream
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress XMLRPC
#39,092by rich! @ etiviti16 years ago
This plugin allows certain XML-RPC commands for BuddyPress (Requires a client!)
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream Extras
#39,418by rich15 years ago
A collection of small tweaks for the activity stream
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress XML-RPC Receiver
#40,679by Yuttadhammo13 years ago
This plugin allows remote access to BuddyPress networks through an XML-RPC API.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.8(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream Ajax Notifier
Up in the last 7 days:2,733#40,900by rich! @ etiviti15 years ago
This plugin will display a simple twitter-like notification 'New activity update. Refresh the page.' via ajax if a new activity stream recor …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream AtGroups
Down in the last 7 days:2,068#42,922by rich15 years ago
This plugin will link @(group_slug) syntax to group home page and/or use =(group_slug) to post an update to group
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bStat
#45,573by Casey Bisson12 years ago
Log and analyze activity.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream as Blog Comments
Down in the last 7 days:7,891#46,263by rich! @ etiviti16 years ago
This plugin will replace the blog comments section with the activity stream reply system
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Activity Stream Bar
#46,812by Tosh15 years ago
Adds a static bar at the bottom of every page of your website. Which displays the latest 20 BuddyPress Activities and rotates threw them.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
BP Expand Activity
#48,385by Marcus (aka @msykes)17 years ago
Adds AJAX capabilities to expand shortened activity stream wire comments without reloading the page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day