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Friends
v4.4.0
A self-hosted social reader for WordPress: follow people via RSS and ActivityPub, with multiple themes and a plugin ecosystem.
decentralizedfriendsown-your-datarsssocial network
- Rank
- #7,175 24h — · 7d —
- Est. installs
- 900+ bucket floor only
- Total downloads
- 97K all time
- Rating
- 5.0 ★ 7 reviews
- Official installs
- 900+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 2 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 50% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.7 compatibility
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Ratings
7 public ratings · 5.0 out of 5.
Maintenance & compatibility
9 days ago
Last release
- Version
- 4.4.0
- Requires WP
- —
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- On WP.org since
- 2018
About Friends
Friends is a WordPress plugin by Alex Kirk, first published on WordPress.org in 2018. It has 900+ active installations and 96,882 downloads in total, and ranks #7,175 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Users rate it 5.0 out of 5 across 7 reviews. Version 4.4.0 was released 9 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.0.7 and requires PHP 7.4 or later. In the last two months, 1 of 2 support threads were marked resolved (50%). It is listed under decentralized, friends, own-your-data, rss and social network.
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