BuddyPress Reaction

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Reign theme comes inbuilt with the BuddyPress Reaction plugin.

BuddyPress Reactions enhances user engagement on your community site by adding customizable Facebook-style reactions to BuddyPress activities, comments, forum topics, and replies.
This plugin allows users to express emotions beyond simple “likes” with a set of animated emoji reactions that can be fully customized. Create multiple reaction sets through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface and easily apply them to different content types.
Key Features:

  • Add animated emoji reactions to BuddyPress activities, comments, and forum content
  • Customize which emojis appear in your reaction sets
  • Configure animation styles for reaction buttons and displays
  • View detailed reaction statistics through widgets and reports
  • Control notification settings for user reactions
  • Seamless integration with BuddyPress and bbPress forums
  • RTL language support for international communities
  • Mobile-responsive design for all device types

BuddyPress Reactions makes your community site more interactive and expressive by giving members more ways to respond to content beyond simple likes, encouraging increased participation and engagement.

This plugin has the following features:

Emoji List

This screen shows the list of the available emojis. You can edit the name of the emojis according to your choice by clicking the edit icon button.

My Reactions

The plugin provides a list of three reactions that can be used for post and comment reactions. These Reaction posts can be edited to change the set of emojis.

On editing the shortcodes, you’ll find the below options:

Hold and drag the emojis from the list and then drop it to arrange.

BuddyPress Integrations

The plugin also integrates with BuddyPress and allows you to react to the BuddyPress activities and comments.

  • Activate Reactions on activity: Activate this option if you wish to permit your community members to express their reactions to BuddyPress Activities.
  • Activate Reactions on Activity Comment: Activate this option if you wish to permit your community members to express their reactions to BuddyPress Activity comments.
  • Enable User Notification on Reaction: Turn on this setting to receive notifications whenever someone reacts to your activity or comment.
  • Disable mark as favorite or Like activity: This setting allows to disable the default BuddyPress favorite feature.

Forum Integrations

The plugin also integrates with BuddyPress and allows you to react to the BuddyPress activities and comments.

  • Activate Reactions on Topic: Activate this option if you wish to permit your community members to express their reactions to Forum Topics.
  • Activate Reactions on Replies: Activate this option if you wish to permit your community members to express their reactions to Forum Replies.

Update on April 30, 2025