I’ve added the counter along with font awesome for Friends count and Message counts to the WP admin bar. How can I make the live notification update the message counts and friend counts, separate from the Buddypress actual Notification.

https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/show-new-notification-without-having-to-refresh/

Code Example:

function messages_admin_bar_notice( $wp_admin_bar ) {
if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

$messages = bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() );
$count = ! empty( $messages ) ? count( $messages ) : 0;
$alert_class = (int) $count > 0 ? ‘pending-count alert’ : ‘count no-alert’;
$menu_title = ‘<span id=”ab-pending-notifications” class=”‘ . $alert_class . ‘”>’ . number_format_i18n( $count ) . ‘</span>’;

$user_domain = bp_loggedin_user_domain();
$item_link = trailingslashit( $user_domain . ‘messages/’ );
$args = array(
‘id’ => ‘message-notice’,
‘parent’ => ‘top-secondary’,
‘title’ => $menu_title,
‘href’ => $user_domain .’messages/’
);
$wp_admin_bar->add_node( $args );
}
add_action( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘messages_admin_bar_notice’,200 );

THIS IS THE EXAMPLE CURRENTLY IN USE:

function messages_admin_bar_notice( $wp_admin_bar ) {
if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;
$messages = bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() );
$count = !empty( $messages ) ? count( $messages ) : 0;
$alert_class = (int) $count > 0 ? ‘pending-count alert’ : ‘count no-alert’;
$user_domain = bp_loggedin_user_domain();
$item_link = trailingslashit( $user_domain . ‘messages/’ );
$args = array(
‘id’ => ‘message-notice’,
‘parent’ => ‘top-secondary’,
‘meta’ => array( ‘class’ => $alert_class ),
‘title’ => ‘<div class=”bubble”>’. bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) .'</div>’,
‘href’ => $user_domain .’messages/’
);
$wp_admin_bar->add_node( $args );
}
add_action( ‘admin_bar_menu’, ‘messages_admin_bar_notice’,200 );