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wpForo Forum
A complete community hub that makes bbPress look very basic.
HealthyGrowing
91/100
This plugin provides a powerful free forum with excellent support despite missing native import and export tools.
Active installs
~38,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
390 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+116%
Growing fast
145 → 313 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORhigh release cadence
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +116% in the last year
145/day a year ago→313/day today
Reviews
what people actually saywpForo Forum is widely regarded as the most capable free forum plugin for WordPress, praised especially for its support community and documentation, though it lacks basic import/export functionality.
What people like
- +Highly regarded as the best available forum plugin for WordPress, with a comprehensive feature set out of the box×5
- +Support team and community forum are consistently described as responsive and helpful×6
- +Well-documented, making it accessible to both beginners and experienced users×3
- +Easy to set up, even for non-technical users×2
- +Developers use the plugin on their own support forum, demonstrating real-world reliability
Common complaints
- −No built-in import/export functionality for forum data
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.64★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 390 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-03-25★★★★★The best forumRicsca2
- 2026-03-02★★★★★Feature Rich and Simply the Bestkuyawing
- 2026-02-07★★★★★Great Support even for the denseabigaildcd
- 2026-01-14★★★★★Outstanding Forum Plugin and Excellent Supportbbrian0171-shot
- 2025-12-12★★★★★Powerful and flexibleMartin Sauter
- 2025-07-28★★★★★Best free plugin everfufy
- 2025-07-21★★★★★Translation (German) not workinggeddi2
- 2025-06-21★★★★★Great plugin, even better supportmikesafh
- 2025-05-12★★★★★Help Wanted with a WordPress Websiteleseding1-shot
- 2025-05-11★★★★★The best WordPress forumekatsa
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
301
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
241
Prior 7-day baseline
313
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,507
Mean release-day peak (30d)
489
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+24.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.04
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+67%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.69 → 4.64★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered