Plugin Review – BuddyPress Poke

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-poke/

Version Tested – V 1.1.1

BuddyPress Poke aims to provide a Facebook – like “Poke” feature to your BuddyPress Social Network, allowing site members to give each other a prod from time to time!

BuddyPress Poke is an ultra simple plugins with no configuration required, after you have installed and activated it each user profile gets a poke button within the cover image area and also a Profile>>Activity>>Poke page where you can view your poke. Each Poke creates on on-site notification but does not trigger a notification email.

Just like Facebook, users can Poke back at the “pokee”.

This plugin is ultra simple and delivers an effective solution to adding another Facebook like feature to BuddyPress.

I think that this plugin would benefit from showing the total number of Pokes, just like Facebook does and also that the visibility of the Poke page would be improved if it was linked to the Activity section of the BuddyPress drop down menu.

The plugin has been updated to support the BP Nouveau theme.

I give this plugin 9 out of 10, simplicity at it’s best!

My Star Rating

Other Peoples Reviews

otalatita

Poke back not working

When I try to poke back an user, goes to a blank page, link says this: poke_action=poke_back&user_id=1&_wpnonce=7abc4f5c7f

June 27, 2018

Mark (markob17)

Works well!

Overall this is a solid plugin. I wish it offered a bit more such as an email notification to users and the ability to easily change "poke" to something else such as "flirt", "like", "wink", etc., but it works as intended. I had to edit the plugin to change "poke" to "like" but it works. Only issue [...]is that if he updates this plugin I am going to have to update the plugin code each time. As a non coder I wouldn't have been able to get this functionality for my Buddypress site and I wanted it so I can't really complain. Hoping to see some improvements on this plugin into the future...Hint, hint! Read more »

September 3, 2016