Best followers plugins for WordPress
The most popular followers plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. BuddyPress Follow leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Bloglovin Widget (10+) and ShowMB (10+). All 10 plugins tagged “followers” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 8 followers plugins
- 1.
BuddyPress FollowThe most installed followers plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 15 reviews, last updated 8 years ago.
- 2.
Bloglovin Widget10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 3.
ShowMB10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 4.
Social Pulse10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Auto twitter followers stay informed10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
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BuddyPress FollowMe10+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 5 reviews, last updated 13 years ago.
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bbP Follow Users10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago.
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YES! YouTube Essential Statistics10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 10 plugins tagged “followers”
BuddyPress Follow
Down in the last 7 days:43#5,928by Andy Peatling9 years ago
Follow members on your BuddyPress site with this nifty plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(15)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Bloglovin Widget
Down in the last 7 days:975#29,861by pipdig11 years ago
A Bloglovin' Widget for WordPress which automatically displays your total follower count.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ShowMB
Up in the last 7 days:1,676#41,909by showmb9 years ago
Show automatically the followers you have on each social network.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Pulse
#42,913by Thomas Pesendorfer1 year ago
Social Pulse ... is a WP plugin showing follower counts from YouTube, Facebook, X, and Steam. It uses Leader/Follower modes to reduce API requests.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto twitter followers stay informed
#44,956by linkbld13 years ago
Automatically tweets each new blog post directly to twitter. Get Top backlinks, inform your followers in real time, all on autopilot.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress FollowMe
Up in the last 7 days:2,219#45,321by meg@info13 years ago
Buddypress Follow Me is fork of BuddyPress Follow plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/). buddypress-followers is now upda …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbP Follow Users
#47,022by kcbluewave89010 years ago
This simple plugin allows users to follow other members on bbPress . The users can view the latest posts and replies from their followed users in a wi …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
YES! YouTube Essential Statistics
Down in the last 7 days:7,820#47,080by VoxHouseStudio14 years ago
A simple but robust Widgetized Heads up Display of any given YouTube Channel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day