Activity Feed

One feed that keeps your whole community talking

Posts, photos, polls and replies in one stream your members already know how to use. They see what their people are doing, join in with a tap, and come back tomorrow.

BuddyBoss activity feed on desktop and mobile showing posts reactions and recently active members

— Discover —

One feed, different for every member

— Relevant Activity

A feed of only the posts that matter to them

Switch it on and every member gets a feed of their own: their groups, their connections, the people they follow, the posts they were mentioned in. Nothing else, and no mystery algorithm.

Personalized activity feed with posts from the member's groups and connections

— Feed Filters

One feed, filtered their way

One tap cuts the feed to what a member came for: their groups, their connections, posts they reacted to, mentions of them. Seven filters, and you choose which appear.

Feed filter menu with options such as All updates I've reacted to and From my groups

— Activity Topics

Topics that sort the feed as posts arrive

A topic bar turns one busy feed into conversations people can browse. You write the list, decide whether everyone or only admins can post to each, and can make a topic required.

Topic bar above the feed with a Design topic selected

— Activity Search

Find any post again in seconds

Search runs across every post and every comment. The answer somebody gave three weeks ago is one search away, so nobody asks twice.

Activity search results for posts and members

— Activity Auto-refresh

New posts arrive on their own

Turn on “Automatically check for new activity posts” and the feed updates itself. New conversations appear while your member is still reading. Nobody hits refresh.

Setting to automatically check for new activity posts above a feed post

— Activity Sharing

Let a good post travel, inside and out

Every post has a Share button. Members pass it into a group, into a private message, or out to Facebook, LinkedIn or WhatsApp. The replies stay tied to the original post.

Share post menu with Messenger Facebook X LinkedIn and WhatsApp options

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— Post —

Give members better ways to post

— Schedule Posts

Write it now, publish it on time

Admins, group owners and moderators write a post today and pick the moment it goes out. View Scheduled Posts shows what is queued, and you can change it until it publishes.

Post composer with a date picker for scheduling a post

— Pin Posts

Keep the post that matters at the top

Pin to Feed sits in the menu on every post. Group owners and moderators pin the welcome message, the rules or this week’s announcement, and it stays on top.

Post menu with the Pin to feed option

— Polls

Ask the whole community and get an answer

Drop a poll into the composer, give it two to ten options and a closing date, then watch the votes land live. Members answer where they are already reading.

Poll in the activity feed with live vote percentages
Activity post with a featured cover image

— Post Feature Image

Cover images that turn updates into articles

Add a picture at the top of a post and it stops looking like a status update. Click the featured image icon, drop a file in, drag it into place.

Edit Activity

Members fix a typo or reword a post straight from its menu, for as long as you allow. Ten minutes, or forever. No moderator needed.

Close Comments

Pick “Turn off commenting” in the post menu. The thread closes, the post stays readable, and admins can always reopen it.

Post Title

Every member gets a Title field above the post box, and you can make it required. Titles are searchable, so the feed starts reading like a library.

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— Engage —

Comments that keep the conversation going

— Enable Comments

Turn every post into a conversation

One switch turns commenting on across the whole feed. Every post becomes somewhere members reply, agree, disagree and answer each other.

Activity post with a comment being written below it

— Edit Comments

A window to fix a typo, then it closes

Members edit their own comment for as long as you allow, from ten minutes to forever. Once the window shuts, nobody rewrites what they said.

Setting to allow members to edit comments for a set duration with a comment in edit mode

— Comment Threading

Replies that stay readable

Replies nest under the comment they answer, as deep as you let them go. A hundred-comment thread reads like a discussion instead of a wall.

Threaded replies nested under a comment with the threading depth setting

— Comment Visibility

Show the first few, hide the rest

Choose how many comments sit under a post before the rest tuck behind “View more comments”. A busy thread stops burying the post below it.

Setting for the maximum comments shown per post with a View More Comments link
Setting for how many additional comments load on each request

— Comments Loading

Load more, at the size you set

Decide how many extra comments arrive each time somebody asks for more. Readers go as deep as they like and the feed stays quick.

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— Control —

Control built in, not bolted on

— Access Control

Decide who gets to post

Not everyone should be able to post. Activity Access names exactly who can, so posting becomes something members earn. Administrators always keep full access.

  • WordPress role — gate posting on the role a member already has, like Editor or Customer
  • Profile type — let Teachers post while Students read
  • Membership — make posting one of the things a paid plan buys
  • GamiPress — unlock posting once a member has earned it
  • Gender — use the profile field where your community needs it
Access control toggles for profile types and roles above member cards
Toggles for which activity types appear in the feed above feed posts

— Posts Visibility

Choose what shows up in the feed

A quiet feed kills a community faster than a busy one. Pick which moments post themselves, and the feed has something in it from day one.

  • Two members connect — every new connection shows up as a post
  • A member joins a group — the community visibly grows in public
  • A member registers — new faces get a welcome without you writing one
  • WordPress posts — new blog posts land in the feed with comments switched on
  • Custom post types — events, products and courses from other plugins post themselves

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Give your community a feed worth checking daily

A feed only works if there is something in it. This one fills itself from what your members are already doing.

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Every member gets a page worth visiting, with their own timeline, their connections and the people following them.

Groups

Somewhere smaller to belong. Private spaces, their own feed, and members who actually know each other.

Moderations

Reporting, blocking and a review queue, so the feed stays somewhere people want to be.