Global Status Settings

Location: WP Admin > WB Plugins > BuddyPress Status > Global Status tab

Global statuses are pre-written suggestions that appear as one-click buttons below the status text area on member profile pages. Members click a suggestion to copy it into the text field, where they can edit it before posting.

Default behavior

When no custom global statuses have been saved, the plugin displays 20 built-in community-oriented suggestions (such as “In a meeting”, “On a coffee break”, “Traveling for work”). These defaults are replaced the moment you save your own list.

Adding a new global status

1. Type your status text in the Add New Global Status field. You can include Unicode emoji by clicking the smiley button next to the input.
2. Click Add Status. The entry appears in the Current Global Statuses list below.
3. Click Save Changes to persist the list.

The status text can be any UTF-8 string, including emoji. There is no enforced character limit in the admin UI, but statuses that are too long look awkward as suggestion buttons. Keeping suggestions under 60 characters works well.

Managing existing statuses

Each status in the list has:

• Drag handle (=) — drag to reorder the list. The order here is the order members see on their profile.
• Text field — click to edit the status text inline.
• Delete — removes the entry from the list.

After making changes, click Save Changes to apply them.

Removing all global statuses

Delete every entry in the list and save. The plugin will fall back to displaying the 20 built-in defaults again.

Option key

Global statuses are stored as a serialized array under bpsts_global_statuses.

Developer note

You can filter the default global statuses using the bpsts_default_global_statuses filter. See Hooks & Filters.