Here you will find answers to commonly asked questions about the BuddyBoss products’ cookies and their purpose.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.
BuddyBoss Platform Cookies
| Cookies | Purpose | Cookie Expiry Time |
| bp_ps_filters bp_ps_debug | BuddyBoss Platform cookies containing an advance profile search on the members’ directory. | Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-message bp-message-type | BuddyBoss Platform cookies containing a feedback (error/success) message to be displayed after the page reloads. | Immediately deleted. |
| bp_new_group_id | Contains the ID of a BuddyBoss Platform group. | Immediately deleted & 24 hours. |
| bp_completed_create_steps | Working in harmony with bp_new_group_id this records the completed steps for the creation of a new BuddyBoss Platform group. | Immediately deleted & 24 hours. |
| buddyboss_user_sw_olduser_ | User Switching’s logged_in_cookie | Immediately deleted & 48 hours. |
| buddyboss_user_sw_secure_ | User Switching’s secure_auth_cookie | Immediately. |
| buddyboss_user_sw_ | User Switching’s auth_cookie | Immediately. |
| bp_messages_send_to | BuddyBoss Platform cookies for messages. | Immediately & 24 hours. |
| bp_messages_subject | BuddyBoss Platform cookies for messages. | Immediately & 24 hours. |
| bp_messages_content | BuddyBoss Platform cookies for messages. | Immediately & 24 hours. |
| recent_emojis | Used for showing your recently used emojis in various sections like activity, forums, messages, group messages, and so on. | Not cleared until intentionally removed. |
| bp-notifications | Used for preserving your recent order of notification like ASC/DESC and notification sorting. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-activity | Used for preserving your recent scopes you filtered by activity. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-document | Used for preserving your recent scopes you filtered by a document. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-media | Used for preserving your recent scopes you filtered by media. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-members | Used for preserving your recent scopes you filtered by members and list/grid view of members. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-groups | Used for preserving your recent scopes you filtered by groups and list/grid view of groups. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| bp-group_members | Used for preserving your list/grid view of group members. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| reset_member | Member cookie used to reset the previous layout stored in browser storage. | 30 days. |
| reset_group | Group cookie to reset the previous layout stored in browser storage. | 30 days. |
BuddyBoss Theme Cookies
| Cookies | Purpose | Cookie Expiry Time |
| bbtheme | Used to preserve color settings of the theme. | 30 days. |
| buddypanel | Used to preserve the BuddyPanel settings of the theme. | Removed when buddypanel is toggled off. |
| redux_current_tab | Used to preserve your recent tab opens in theme settings in the backend. | 7 days. |
| redux_update_check | Used to check the update of the Redux Framework in theme settings in the backend. | 8 hours. |
| course-view | Used to set the view of the list/grid in the course listing page in LearnDash. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |
| llms-membership-view | Used to set the view of the list/grid in the membership listing page in LifterLMS. | This is set as Session Storage. Expires with Browser session. |