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I’m hoping one of you experienced plugin developers can help me finalize my ‘manage notifications’ plugin. This is my first plugin and I’m a bit confused by a few things.

The code I have so far is here: https://github.com/colabsadmin/BuddyPress-Manage-Notifications

The plugin will add a dropdown to filter the notifications by type and will add checkboxes next to each notification so you can do bulk actions (read/unread or delete).

Here’s where I need help.

1 – I need to include a replacement for /members/single/notifications/notifications-loop.php. This replacement includes the dropdown filter and the checkboxes. I read about buddypress plugin dev here: http://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/how-to-enjoy-bp-theme-compat-in-plugins/#in-the-members-profile-pages But I was totally confused by it.

2 – For the dropdown filter, I’m using bp_notifications_get_registered_components() to get a list of all possible notification components. The issue is that some of the names aren’t very pretty. Is there another function I can tap into for this?

If anyone wants to test this out, you’ll need to put the custom notifications-loop.php in your child theme until I figure out issue #1 above. This has only been tested (and not fully tested) with BuddyPress 1.9.2

Some planned changes:
1 – Ajax the filtering
2 – Add confirmation before doing bulk actions
3 – Add another bulk actions dropdown to bottom of table