Plugin info

Total downloads: 6,029
Active installs: 70
Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 4 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 12/6/2025 (26 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 2/15/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.2
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 26 days ago • 5 reviews

70/100

Is bbPress – Anonymous Subscriptions abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 26 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.2
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: f

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Description

This add-on plugin for bbPress will allow anonymous users to subscribe to topics and get email notifications when a new reply is posted. The notification email includes an unsubscribe link.

bbPress notifications will keep to go out to registered users, this plugin only extends the thing to anonymous posters as well!

See the project on GitHub.

Available in English, Italian, German, Norwegian, Ebrew, Serbian.

Installation

  1. Activate the plugin.
  2. A new “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” checkbox will be available in the reply form for anonymous users.

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

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Changelog

1.3.9

  • Tweak: Add $user_email to filters bbp_subscription_mail_message and bbp_subscription_mail_title (as last argument).

1.3.8

  • Fix: properly handling emails with special characters in unsubscribe links.
  • Fix: better error/message displaying.

1.3.7

  • Fix: notifications not going out anymore with bbPress >= 2.6 if there were no (regular) subscribed users.
  • Tweak: revised German localization (Toengel).

1.3.6.2

  • New: added Serbian and Ebrew localizations (Eran).

1.3.6.1

  • New: added German (maxx203) localization and update pot file.

1.3.6

  • New: added Norwegian (Torbjørn Kristensen) and Italian (Stefano Ottolenghi) localizations.

1.3.5

  • Tweak: updated email text, warning users NOT to reply to automated emails.

1.3.4

  • Fixed: using same message for all subscribed users, resulting in invalid unsubscribe link.

1.3.3

  • New: added pot file.

1.3.2

  • Tweak: changed localization slug.

1.3.1

  • Fixed: anonymous notifications breaking subscribed users ones.

1.3

  • Fixed: notifications to anonymous users wouldn’t be sent if no registered users were subscribed to the topic.
  • Fixed: notifications to user who created the new topic not working.

1.2

  • Tweak: subscribe field checked by default.

1.1

  • Fixed: anonymous subscriptions broke regular BBP notifications to registered users.
  • Fixed: unsubscribe feature would not work when there was only one subscriber.

1.0

  • First release!