A weekly digest of recent BuddyBoss / BuddyPress activity emailed to your members on autopilot. RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe, batch processing, full opt-out tracking. PRO adds biweekly cadence, group targeting, Gravity SMTP, branding and Claude AI subject lines.
Without a weekly nudge, members forget the community exists. They miss the question they could have answered. They don't see the new course post. They drift. A weekly digest brings them back — but only if it's actually relevant and actually delivered.
Weekly digest pulls the activity members missed back into their inbox. They see a question to answer, a member to welcome, a topic to follow — and they come back to participate.
"Weekly digest" gets ignored. "5 new members + Sarah's gift-wrapping question" gets opened. PRO's Claude AI integration writes a fresh, specific subject every send.
10 emails per 30 seconds keeps shared-hosting and TransIP rate limits happy. PRO routes through Gravity SMTP for per-recipient delivery logs.
RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe with per-user tokens. Gmail and iOS Mail show the unsubscribe button in the header. No reply-to-unsubscribe gymnastics.
Three actions, then the digest runs itself every week.
4-step wizard
Set the from-name, the email subject, the day + time, and send a test email to yourself. Total time: 90 seconds.
Cron + queue
Every week (or biweekly in PRO) the cron fires, the activity collector pulls the last 7 days, the queue batches sends 10 emails every 30 seconds. Progress polled in admin.
Add intelligence (PRO)
Turn on Claude AI subject generation, target a specific BuddyBoss group, route through Gravity SMTP for delivery tracking, customise the branding.
No upsell tax on basic functionality — every standard activity type, the queue, unsubscribe, send-now, all in the free version.
The core feature, no limits.
Queue + batch, not blast.
Gmail's one-click button.
For tighter or VIP cadences.
Looks like your community, ships like a pro.
{first_name} / {full_name} placeholdersOpen rates beat "Weekly Digest".
The digest reads its activity from BuddyBoss Platform or BuddyPress — without one of those plugins active there's nothing to email. Beyond that, free works with any SMTP plugin you already have; PRO adds the OCW License Server for updates and (optionally) your own Claude API key for AI subjects.
Free covers the weekly digest workflow end-to-end. PRO adds biweekly cadence, group targeting, Gravity SMTP, branding, demo content and Claude AI subject lines.
Weekly Digest for BuddyBoss
Complete weekly digest workflow.
Free forever · 1 site
No signup required · hosted on WordPress.org
Weekly Digest for BuddyBoss PRO
For communities where the digest is part of the product.
per year · 1 site · excl. VAT
Per year. Instant access after payment. Cancellable annually.
Answers to the questions I get most often.
Is this an official BuddyBoss plugin?
No. This is an independent third-party add-on 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.
Does it work without BuddyBoss installed?
No. The digest reads the activity stream from BuddyBoss Platform or BuddyPress — without one of those plugins there is no activity to collect and the emails would be empty. BuddyPress is the free fork that BuddyBoss Platform is built on; both expose the same bp_* function API, so the plugin works with either. An admin notice warns you when neither is active and the cron is skipped automatically.
Will Claude cost me a lot?
PRO uses your own Anthropic API key. A typical weekly subject-line generation uses ~200 tokens — fractions of a cent. Even with 4 weekly sends per month, monthly cost is under €0.10.
What happens if my license expires?
The free version's weekly digest continues to send indefinitely. Only the PRO features (biweekly, group targeting, Gravity SMTP, branding, AI subjects) become unavailable. Renewing re-activates everything where it was — your saved options are kept in the DB.
Will the queue overload my server?
No. Batch processing is throttled to 10 emails per 30 seconds by default — well within shared-hosting and TransIP rate limits. Larger communities just take proportionally longer to send.
Can I move a PRO license to another domain?
Yes. Clear the key on the old site (triggers /deactivate on the license server) and enter it on the new site. Single Site = 1 active domain at a time.
Do my members need to be logged in to read the digest?
No — the email itself is always readable without logging in. The digest is plain HTML sent directly to each recipient's inbox; the content is pre-rendered and does not depend on their login status. The View → links inside the email point to BuddyBoss pages, which typically do require login. Public blog posts linked in the digest are accessible without login.
Does the digest include content from private or hidden groups?
Never. Because every recipient gets the same email regardless of group membership, including private group content would leak it to non-members. The plugin hard-codes this protection: show_hidden = false in the query and a PHP filter that drops any activity tied to a non-public group — even if an admin tries to override it in settings.
This is how Weekly Digest for BuddyBoss shows up in the WordPress.org plugin directory and in your plugins list — look for the teal-and-pink OCW style.
