BuddyPress Recent Profile Visitors 1.8.8

This is a highly desired feature for any social network, as it adds a layer of curiosity and engagement often found on platforms like LinkedIn.

The core BuddyPress plugin does not include functionality to track or display recent profile visitors. To achieve this, you must use a dedicated, third-party plugin.

The search results point to a few popular and effective solutions that offer this exact feature:

🥇 Recommended Plugin: Recent Visitors For BuddyPress Profile

This plugin (often developed by BuddyDev) is one of the most comprehensive tools specifically built for this purpose.

Key Features:

Records Visitors: Tracks which members (and often guests, depending on settings) have viewed a profile recently.

Profile Display: Adds a dedicated tab or section to the user's profile where they can see a list of their recent visitors, usually displayed as avatars.

Privacy Control: Crucially, it typically includes settings where users can:

Opt-In/Opt-Out: Allow users to turn tracking on or off (the system often requires mutual consent: if you turn off tracking, you cannot see who visited your profile).

Anonymous Mode: Options to allow users to visit other profiles without leaving a trace.

Popularity Ranking: It often includes features to show the Most Popular Users on the site based on the total number of profile visits over a defined period (e.g., last 7 days, 30 days).

Customization: Provides shortcodes and widgets to display the visitor list or popularity stats in different areas of your site.

BuddyBoss Compatibility: The plugin is frequently updated to be fully compatible with the BuddyBoss Platform (a popular fork of BuddyPress).

🥈 Alternative Solution: Community Plugins (Youzify/Ultimate Member)

Some comprehensive community builder plugins offer "Who Viewed My Profile" as a core feature, alongside dozens of other profile customization options:

Youzify (formerly Youzer): This plugin includes a feature called "BuddyPress Who Viewed My Profile" which gives detailed charts and analytics, and even allows you to create premium visitor types to encourage membership upgrades.

BuddyPress Analytics: While this focuses more on overall site and group traffic, some versions track visits per user and can provide data to achieve a similar result for administrators.

💡 Why Use a Recent Visitors Plugin?

Increased Engagement: It stimulates curiosity, leading users to check their profiles and, in turn, visit the profiles of those who visited them, fostering new connections.

Monetization: If you run a membership site, you can restrict the feature to only premium members, encouraging free users to upgrade to "unlock" their full visitor list.

Do you currently use the standard BuddyPress plugin, or are you running your community on the BuddyBoss Platform? (This helps determine the best fit.)