BuddyPress Favorite Notification

Yes. BuddyPress must be installed and active. The plugin extends the BuddyPress activity and notification components, and deactivates itself with an explanation if BuddyPress is not available.

No. Once the plugin is active, authors are notified and emailed when their activity or comment is favorited. The admin page, WB Plugins > Favorite Notifications , has an Overview tab for statistics, a Display tab for the favorite line and realtime popups, a Tools tab for cleanup and migration, and a Discover tab.

Yes. The plugin works with any theme that supports BuddyPress, and follows BuddyPress Nouveau and Legacy template standards. Its styles adapt to your theme’s colour palette, and it has been tested with BuddyX and Reign.

Turn them on in the Real-time Popups card on the Display tab. They use the WordPress Heartbeat API, which checks for new notifications every 30 or 60 seconds while a page is open. When a new favorite is detected, a popup appears on screen without a page refresh. Popups are off on new installs, because every logged-in member’s browser makes a request at that interval.

No. Members are not notified when they favorite their own content.

Yes, when several members favorite the same activity. Those favorites collapse into one notification that reads “%d people favorited your activity” instead of one entry per member. Grouping is per activity, so if one member favorites several different activities of yours, you get a separate notification for each of them.

Yes. Emails are set in the BuddyPress Settings > Email tab, which has a row for favorited activities and one for favorited comments. Web notifications and realtime popups are set in Settings > Favorite Notifications . Everything is on by default; turning one off stops it.

Yes. Go to Dashboard > Emails and edit “favorited your update” or “favorited your comment” like any other BuddyPress email. They use your BuddyPress email design and sender settings, and your edits are kept when the plugin updates.

Logged-in members only. Logged-out visitors do not see the favorite count line under activities.

Everyone who favorited the activity, a page at a time with a Load more control. Developers can set the page size with bpfn_favorites_modal_per_page , or a maximum with bpfn_who_favorited_limit .

Only if you want them to. Turn on automatic cleanup on the Tools tab and it removes read notifications older than the retention period you choose (7, 15, 30, 60, or 90 days) once a month, starting a month after you enable it. You can also run it on demand and see the next scheduled run. Unread notifications are never removed.

The plugin moves existing favorites into its own indexed table. On large sites this runs in the background in batches so it does not time out, and you can watch its progress on the Tools tab.

Yes. The plugin works with all BuddyPress activity types, including group activities, blog posts, comments, and custom activity types.

Yes. The plugin is fully internationalized and ships a POT file in the languages/ directory, plus RTL support.

Yes. The plugin has a modular architecture and provides action and filter hooks throughout, including bpfn_notification_string , bpfn_who_favorited_limit , bpfn_admin_tabs , and bpfn_email_tokens .

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No. The plugin does not collect, store, or share personal data outside your WordPress installation. Notification data is stored in your own database, and emails go through your site’s configured mail system.