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Brajesh Singh in 16 Comments

I am pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of our BuddyPress Live Notifications plugin. Since the plugin's initial release, there have been numerous improvements in WordPress & BuddyPress. BuddyPress got an independent notifications component and the heartbeat api was introduced in WordPress long ago.

The current release is a complete rewrite of BuddyPress Live Notifications plugin to tap into these features and provide better performance with more flexibility for theme authors.

Features:-

• As the name says, It shows facebook like real time live notification to the users on BuddyPress based social network

What is new:-

• Complete rewrite of the code.
• Using the features of BuddyPress notifications component(which was introduced around BuddyPress 1.9.0 )
• Uses WordPress heartbeat api instead of long ajax polling for performance reasons( and has much better performance than the older one)
• Allows theme authors to change the notifying mechanism, all you need to override is the  notify  method of the  bpln object
• Also, It fires custom javascript event bpln:new_notifications when new notifications are recieved on the client side. A theme author can hook to it to do their own modifications.

Download & Installation:-

You can Download it from

WordPress.org Repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-live-notification/

Or BuddyDev(both are same): https://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-live-notification/

Bonus:-

Here is your reward. I created an example plugin to show how to replace the notify window with another and  here is a screenshot showing that in action. I have replaced the packaged notification window with the jquery notice plugin.

Live Growl using jQuery Notice:- https://github.com/sbrajesh/bp-live-notification-example-module

I hope that the  new plugin will add more value to your site. Cheers for the next step towards a better social site 🙂