Hi Unigma,

Thank you for your really good feedback. We hope our theme will meet all your expectations! 🙂

Concerning the your first request, you’re certainly using Social Articles plugin. Unfortunately, we have no clue.

Note that this issue is related to the use of Social Articles plugin. Our theme is compatible with this plugin but don’t change the behaviour.

I suggest you to contact the plugin authors. They’ll be more inform to help you. To ask them if there is a solution, please click on the following link:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-articles/

Thank you for bringing this second request to our attention. Maybe these topics will help you to solve your issue as they seem to answer the same concern:

• BuddyPress Follow Plugin Notifications
• Add BuddyPress 2.5 email support for new follow email notification
• New Post Email Notify

Please note that this issue is related with the customization of a third party plugin, not with the use of your theme. As theme authors, the installation, setting or debugging of third party plugins isn’t part of the support we will provide.

To go further, we invite you to ask for more help from the plugin authors and post your request on their support forums:
https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/issues

Don’t hesitate to share the solutions with us, I’m sure it will help other users facing the same issue. #SharingIsCaring

We remain available for all support requests related with the use of your theme.

Regards,