Realtime and Notification Settings

Go to WB Gamification > Settings > Realtime in your admin sidebar.

This section controls how live reward feedback reaches members - the transport that delivers updates, and where on screen reward toasts appear.

Toast Position

Default: Bottom right (recommended)

Reward toasts (points, badges, kudos) slide in from the corner you pick here. The toast is corner-aware, so a bottom corner slides up and a top corner slides down.

Option	Stored value
Bottom right (recommended)	bottom-right
Bottom left	bottom-left
Top right	top-right
Top center	top-center

Bottom right is recommended because it never overlaps your theme header or navigation. Choose a top position only if a chat or support widget already sits in the bottom corner.

The selection is stored in the wb_gam_toast_position option. Developers can override it per request with the wb_gam_toast_position filter - see the Filters reference.

Realtime Transport

Default: Heartbeat

The transport decides how the browser receives live updates. WP Heartbeat is the shipped default and is right for most sites - it polls on a shared, throttled tick (15s steady, a 5s burst for ~30s after a member action, near-suspend on hidden tabs).

Option	When to use
Heartbeat	Default. Works on every host.
SSE	Server-Sent Events stream for sub-second toasts. Opt-in: it also requires the wb_gam_sse_allowed filter to return true and a host built for long-lived connections.
Auto	Client tries SSE first (when permitted) and falls back to Heartbeat.

SSE is gated because its long-poll pins one PHP-FPM worker per connected member, which does not scale on a standard pool. Full transport detail, host requirements, and the wb_gam_sse_allowed filter are in the developer guide: Realtime transport.

The transport can also be set with WP-CLI:

wp option get wb_gam_realtime_transport      # default: heartbeat
wp option update wb_gam_realtime_transport auto