Best groups plugins for WordPress
The most popular groups plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Groups leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Private groups (1K+) and Registration Options for BuddyPress (1K+). All 79 plugins tagged “groups” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 groups plugins
- 1.
GroupsThe most installed groups plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 382 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 2.Private groups
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 49 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Registration Options for BuddyPress1K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 33 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 4.BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 32 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 5.
Groups 404 Redirect1K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 10 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.
Wbcom Designs600+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 10 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 7.
BuddyPress Groups Extras300+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 35 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.
BuddyPress Default Data300+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 22 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 9.
User Groups200+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 9 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 10.Advanced XProfile Fields for BuddyPress
100+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
All 79 plugins tagged “groups”

Groups
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,738by itthinx4 days ago
Turn your site into a powerful membership solution. Manage members, teams and access to content easily.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(382)
- Downloads
- 191/day
Private groups
Down in the last 7 days:15#5,575by Robin W2 months ago
For bbPress - Creates private forum groups
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(49)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Registration Options for BuddyPress
Down in the last 7 days:8#5,958by Brian Messenlehner3 years ago
Moderate new BuddyPress members and fight BuddyPress spam.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.4(33)
- Downloads
- 22/day
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
Down in the last 7 days:25#6,291by Boone Gorges2 years ago
This powerful plugin allows users to receive email notifications of group activity. Weekly or daily digests are available.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(32)
- Downloads
- 26/day

Groups 404 Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:8#6,382by itthinx1 month ago
Redirect 404's when a visitor tries to access a page protected by Groups.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 20/day

Wbcom Designs
Down in the last 7 days:30#8,473by wbcomdesigns4 days ago
Show the BuddyPress activity stream, members directory and groups directory on any post or page, with shortcodes or Elementor widgets.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 23/day

BuddyPress Groups Extras
Up in the last 7 days:33#9,991by Slava Abakumov1 year ago
Introduce custom fields and custom pages to your BuddyPress-powered groups.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.3(35)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BuddyPress Default Data
Up in the last 7 days:27#10,269by Slava Abakumov1 year ago
Plugin will create lots of users, messages, friends connections, groups, topics, activity items, profile data - useful for testing purpose.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.9(22)
- Downloads
- 11/day

User Groups
Up in the last 7 days:37#11,536by Zack Katz10 years ago
Group Your Users
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced XProfile Fields for BuddyPress
Up in the last 7 days:116#14,605by SuitePlugins5 months ago
Enhance your BuddyPress profile fields with Advanced XProfile Fields for BuddyPress. Manage fields labels, validation and show fields in admin.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day
BuddyPress Registration Groups
Up in the last 7 days:263#16,494by hardlyneutral1 month ago
Allows a new BuddyPress user to select groups to join during the registration process.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day

BuddyPress Group Chatroom
Down in the last 7 days:33#17,731by Venutius5 years ago
This plugin provides neat chatrooms into BuddyPress groups. Each Group admin can enable a group Chat room, available for all group members to view and …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Limit BuddyPress Groups Per User
Down in the last 7 days:136#17,740by Brajesh Singh6 years ago
Limit Groups Per user plugin allows site admins to restrict the number of groups a user can create on a BuddyPress based Social network.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Wbcom Designs
Down in the last 7 days:1,300#19,603by wbcomdesigns5 days ago
Let members review and rate BuddyPress groups across your own criteria, with moderation, a top-groups leaderboard, and SEO-ready rating markup.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.8(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Gestione Circolari Groups
Up in the last 7 days:89#19,667by Scimone Ignazio4 years ago
Gestione delle circolari scolastiche con la possibilità di richiedere la firma e l'adesione alle circolari sindacali.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

MailUp Auto Subscription
#20,334by ilGhera1 year ago
Let users subscribe to MailUp newsletter service in the same time they're registering to your site.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Groupblog
Down in the last 7 days:442#21,129by Boone Gorges7 months ago
BuddyPress Groupblog extends the group functionality by enabling the group to have a single blog associated with it.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.3(11)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation
Up in the last 7 days:221#22,199by Venutius2 years ago
Extend restricting group creation with mappings to WordPress Capabilities and various thresholds
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Groups bbPress
#23,569by itthinx10 months ago
Protect bbPress Forums, Topics and Replies using Groups.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BP Devolved Authority
Down in the last 7 days:306#24,340by Venutius2 years ago
This plugin allows key aspects of BuddyPress administration to be devolved to non admin users.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Groups Suggestions
Up in the last 7 days:173#24,403by lenasterg2 years ago
Adds Suggested groups functionality into BuddyPress.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Avatar Bubble
Down in the last 7 days:122#26,606by Slava Abakumov10 years ago
After moving your mouse pointer on user/group avatar (or clicking) you will see a bubble with the defined by admin information about it.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Group Management
Down in the last 7 days:529#26,765by Boone Gorges13 years ago
Allows site administrators to manage group membership on versions of BuddyPress earlier than 1.7.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

MyClub Groups
#28,225by MyClub1 day ago
Retrieves group information from the MyClub member administration platform. Generates pages for groups defined in the MyClub platform.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Groups for MemberMouse
Down in the last 7 days:475#28,673by Matt Mintun1 year ago
Groups for MemberMouse allows you to sell "seats" of membership to a Group Leader or Business.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Buddypress Xprofile Fields Custom Css Classes
#28,677by codepixlabs9 years ago
Add custom classes to xprofile fields for ease of styling.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Enhanced BuddyPress Widgets
Up in the last 7 days:394#31,017by Boone Gorges15 years ago
Provides enhanced version of BuddyPress's core Groups and Members widgets
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Buddypress Email or Message Group Members
#31,116by shawfactor5 years ago
Allows Buddypress group Admins to send email and/or a private message to all group members .
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP External Group Blogs
Down in the last 7 days:613#31,220by Andy Peatling13 years ago
Give group creators and administrators on your BuddyPress install the ability to attach
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

BP Fan Page
#31,486by Venutius2 years ago
This plugin allows you to change any BuddyPress group into a fan page group, where only admins and moderators can post.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Blocks for ChurchSuite
#31,768by Alwyn Barry1 month ago
Blocks For ChurchSuite is a plugin providing blocks that enable display of event and small group data from ChurchSuite in various ways.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Plugin Organiser
Down in the last 7 days:310#32,130by Andrew Stewart5 years ago
Plugin Organiser is a simple plugin filter that uses javascript to filter your plugins into groups. Any underlying plugin data is untouched and safe.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BP Groups CiviCRM Sync
Up in the last 7 days:46#32,861by Christian Wach1 year ago
Enables two-way synchronisation between BuddyPress groups and CiviCRM groups.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
User Groups Restrictions
#33,926by asadowski1013 years ago
Extend of user-groups plugin, this plugin allows you to restrict access to users groups in back-end and front-end on page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BuddyPress Extend Fields
#34,233by serggordienko9 years ago
Additional fields for BuddyPress Groups
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BP Group Sites
Up in the last 7 days:27#34,257by Christian Wach9 months ago
Enables the creation of a many-to-many relationship between BuddyPress Groups and WordPress Sites in a Multisite context.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

LabelGlow
#35,590by Eitan Shavit5 months ago
The most powerful and intelligent sync service to boost team productivity and automate Google Contacts. Sync a master contact list to your team's …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Default Group Avatar
#36,213by Mike Martel14 years ago
Adds a default group avatar to BuddyPress without disabling Gravatars for users.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BP Directory Views
Up in the last 7 days:6,735#37,225by Venutius2 years ago
Creates a uniform grid view for the Groups and Members directory pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group Default Avatar
Down in the last 7 days:1,379#38,944by Vernon Fowler14 years ago
Adds a default group avatar to BuddyPress. Configure the image URL via the option page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Explara Lite
#39,357by Explara7 years ago
Managing events shouldn’t be complex and costly. Now integrate the power of Explara to your existing WordPress site with the Explara Lite Plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group Tinychat
#40,491by John11 years ago
Chat Room for Buddypress Group
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.9(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group for Community Admins and Mods
Up in the last 7 days:2,863#40,592by rich15 years ago
This plugin will create a private group and maintain a member list of all current group administrators and moderators.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group Dice
#40,616by D Cartwright13 years ago
BuddyPress Group Dice.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group Twitter
Up in the last 7 days:5,823#41,150by Andy Peatling16 years ago
Attach Twitter accounts to a BuddyPress group then aggregate and track tweets within that group.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Multi Group Remove
Down in the last 7 days:1,745#41,577by Peter Hofman14 years ago
Do you spend hours of you time to remove spam groups in BuddyPress?
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group Wiki
Down in the last 7 days:4,473#41,863by D Cartwright16 years ago
This plugin provides simple group wiki functionality within BuddyPress. REQUIRES WPMU!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Buddypress Group CSS
#42,494by rustybroomhandle16 years ago
Allows a Buddypress group administrator to customise their group with CSS via the "Group Custom CSS" tab under the group's Admin page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BuddyPress Group Folders
Down in the last 7 days:316#42,592by Ruuttu13 years ago
Very basic and private file storage for groups.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
BP Favorite Groups
#42,908by SuitePlugins5 months ago
BP Favorite Groups is an easy way for users to bookmark the best groups. Users can filter activity by their favorite groups.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day