- Active installs
- 100+
- 14 ratings
- 4.7
- Last updated
- 6 months ago
- Version
- 2.0.2
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.8
About this plugin
Buddy Notification Bell adds a real-time notification bell to your BuddyPress or BuddyBoss site. New notifications are detected automatically using the WordPress Heartbeat API — no page reload needed.
Key features:
- Real-time detection of new notifications via WordPress Heartbeat API
- Sound alert on new notification (enable/disable in settings)
- LinkedIn-style dropdown panel with avatar, text, and time
- Unread count badge on the bell icon
- Floating bell button option (great for block/FSE themes)
- Place the bell anywhere with the
[buddy_notification_bell]shortcode - Auto-injects into the primary navigation menu (classic themes)
- Mark all notifications as read with one click
- Individual or grouped notification display style
- Full BuddyBoss Platform compatibility — including an option to trigger BuddyBoss’s own notification panel on bell click
- Secure: all AJAX endpoints nonce-verified, all output properly escaped
Demo
Screenshots
![Notification Bell with Notification Drop down by BuddyDeveloper[http://buddydevelopers.com]](https://ps.w.org/buddy-notification-bell/assets/screenshot-1.png?rev=3524543)
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- Actively maintained Last release 6 months ago
- Tested with current WordPress Tested up to 7.0.8
- Support questions answered 0 of 2 resolved in two months
- Well rated 4.7 stars from 14 ratings
- Latest week
- 42
- Typical week
- 19
- Peak
- 133 Week of May 2
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🙂 Very happy with it!
Very good plugin. It shows real-time notification and gives a notification bell sound alert as described.
hi Among the several notifications bell plugins i have used, it is the easiest and most convenient notifications bell to use and is suitable for bbpress and buddypress It’s very recommendation
Does what it says it does. Thanks so much for this plugin!
Great plugin
