Weekly Digest for BuddyBoss
Weekly Digest for BuddyBoss collects recent activity from your community (new members, status updates, forum topics, group joins, connections) and emails a clean recap to your members on a weekly schedule.
Every feature in this plugin is fully functional and free — there are no locked options, trials or usage limits.
⚠ Independent third-party add-on. This plugin is developed and maintained entirely by Adviespraktijk OCW. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by BuddyBoss LLC. “BuddyBoss” is a trademark of BuddyBoss LLC, used here purely to describe what this add-on integrates with.
⚠ Requires BuddyBoss Platform or BuddyPress. The plugin reads the activity stream from one of those plugins. Without either active, the digest has no activity to collect — an admin notice warns you and the cron is skipped automatically.
Features
- Weekly digest of recent community activity
- Manual cadence — send on demand
- Two delivery transports — default WordPress mail, or Gravity SMTP (per-recipient delivery tracking when Gravity SMTP is active)
- All WP users as recipients
- Full BuddyBoss activity type picker — status updates (incl. photos/videos), comments, new members, profile updates, group activity, group joins/creations, connections, forum topics & replies, blog posts & comments, plus any third-party activity types your community registers
- Per-item exclusions — fetch the activities for the next digest and uncheck anything you don’t want to include
- RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe with per-user token + opt-out tracking
- Queue + batch processing — 10 emails per 30 seconds, with live progress and stall recovery
- Send-now + send-test admin actions
- Send history — review the exact HTML of every digest that went out
- Onboarding wizard — 4 steps to a working digest
- Tutorial submenu with progress detection
- OCW house-style admin (teal / navy / pink)
Optional PRO add-on (sold separately)
A separate plugin, Weekly Digest for BuddyBoss PRO, is available at onlinecursuswebsites.nl/weekly-digest-for-buddyboss-pro. It is not included in this plugin and is not required for any feature here. It adds, on top of this free plugin:
- Biweekly cadence (every 14 days)
- Targeting a single community group instead of all users
- Branding customization (brand color, accent color, heading font, personal intro message)
- Custom post types in the digest
- In-page live email preview with demo data
- Claude AI subject lines (uses the Anthropic API — an external service you provide a key for)
- Automatic updates via the OCW License Server
Requirements
- WordPress 6.0 or higher
- PHP 8.0 or higher
- BuddyBoss Platform 2.x OR BuddyPress 11+ (required — the digest reads the activity stream from one of these)