📄️ Welcome message
PHP snippet that automatically sends a private welcome message to every newly registered user. Hooks BuddyPress, Ultimate Member, Paid Memberships Pro, and standard WordPress registration events.
📄️ Custom messages location
PHP snippets to render the Better Messages inbox at a custom URL on your WordPress site and redirect notification links to that URL using the `bp_better_messages_page` filter.
📄️ Disable profile links
PHP filter to disable clickable user-profile links in the Better Messages UI and show only nicknames. Uses the `better_messages_rest_user_item` filter.
📄️ iOS web push
How to enable iOS web push notifications for Better Messages using a PWA manifest. Works on iOS 16.4+ when the site is added to the iOS home screen as a web app.
📄️ Custom file format
PHP filters to register a custom file extension (e.g. .apk or .emb) with the WordPress media gallery so it becomes selectable in Better Messages attachment uploads.
📄️ Custom email layout
PHP filter to fully replace the default Better Messages email notification layout with your own HTML template. Use the `bp_better_messages_overwrite_email` filter for programmatic control over email content.
📄️ Customize sounds
Replace Better Messages notification, send, incoming-call, and outgoing-call sounds. Use the built-in WP-admin picker per sound, or replace the whole sounds folder with the `bp_better_messages_sounds_assets` PHP filter.
📄️ Custom AI provider
How to register a custom AI provider for Better Messages AI Chat Bots using three PHP filter hooks. Works with self-hosted LLM servers like Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp and any OpenAI-compatible API. Built-in providers OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Google Gemini stay available alongside.
📄️ Per-thread personas
Display a single WordPress user under a different name, avatar, and profile URL in each thread without touching their real identity elsewhere. Uses `participantOverrides` on the `better_messages_rest_thread_item` filter. Powers buyer ↔ agent personas in RealHomes / Houzez integrations.
📄️ Revoke a user's access
Cut a suspended, banned or ineligible member off the WebSocket server at once, closing their open sessions, with the better_messages_revoke_user action and the better_messages_user_can_connect filter, or take them out of a single conversation or chat room.
📄️ Custom navigation tabs
Add your own tabs to the mini widgets bar, the side panel and the mobile tab bar of Better Messages, rename or remove the built-in tabs, draw a panel of your own and keep a badge current, with the better_messages_navigation_tabs JavaScript filter and the better_messages_custom_tabs PHP filter.