🆚 BuddyPress vs. Simple Membership
- 📈 BuddyPress is slightly more popular than Simple Membership.
- 🌎 BuddyPress is more popular in the United States, France, and Italy.
- 🌍 Simple Membership is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
BuddyPressType
WordPress plugin
Membership management software
About
BuddyPress is an open-source community plugin for 
WordPress that adds social networking features such as user profiles, groups, activity streams, and notifications.
A flexible and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content on your WordPress site.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Premium Addons$39.95+
Categories
WordPress Plugins › Rank #98
WordPress Plugins › Rank #100
Membership Management › Rank #6
Membership Management › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The BuddyPress WordPress plugin is 1.1 times more popular than Simple Membership.
Total websites
Market share
WordPress Plugins
Membership Management
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
BuddyPress is more popular in the United States, France, and Italy, while Simple Membership is more popular in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Spain
France
Australia
Italy
Canada
Russia
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Membership Management category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Poland in the Membership Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Austria in the Membership Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Membership Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the Membership Management category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
BuddyPress is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Simple Membership is more commonly used on business, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and general news sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Health
General News
Sports
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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WP-Members🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,361,290 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.