Title: BuddyPress Automatic Friends
Author: Steven Word
Published: <strong>2011-08-30</strong>
Last modified: 2022-01-23

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# BuddyPress Automatic Friends

 By [Steven Word](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevenkword/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bp-automatic-friends.2.0.8.zip)

 * [Details](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-automatic-friends/)

## Description

Automatically create and accept friendships for specified users upon new user registration.*
Requires BuddyPress

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Global Friends overview
 * [[
 * Autocomplete usernames
 * [[

## Installation

 1. Upload the bp-automatic-friends folder to the plugins directory in your WordPress
    installation
 2. Activate the plugin
 3. Click on the “Automatic Friends” link under the Users Menu.
 4. Configure your BuddyPress Automatic Friends options.

## FAQ

### Coming Soon

To a WordPress Installation near you.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Works as advertised](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-as-advertised-801/)󠁿

 [marbs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/marbs/) 2022-02-26

I have an advanced BP social media site and this plugin is a keeper. Thank you!

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### 󠀁[Error get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘last_activity’ ) was called incorrectly.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-get_user_meta-user_id-last_activity-was-called-incorrectly/)󠁿

 [stasonkiev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stasonkiev/) 2020-06-15

Hello thanks for the plugin, it is really useful. With the recent updates your plugin
started to call error, can you please fix it?: get_user_meta( $user_id, 'last_activity')
was called incorrectly. User last_activity data is no longer stored in usermeta.
Use bp_get_user_last_activity() instead. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more
information. (This message was added in version 2.0.0.)

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## Contributors & Developers

“BuddyPress Automatic Friends” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Steven Word ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevenkword/)

“BuddyPress Automatic Friends” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to 
[the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-automatic-friends/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “BuddyPress Automatic Friends” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-automatic-friends)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-automatic-friends/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bp-automatic-friends/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-automatic-friends/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-automatic-friends/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0.8

 * Updates usage of `bp_get_user_last_activity` to replace `get_meta`
 * WordPress version 5.9 compatibilty

#### 2.0.7

 * Resolves PHP strict error when calling `get_global_friends()`
 * Bumps version compatibilty for WordPress 4.5

#### 2.0.6

 * Bumps version compatibilty for WordPress 4.4.2

#### 2.0.5

 * Disables email notifications. In situations with hundreds of users, this can 
   get SPAMMY fast

#### 2.0.4

 * Adds icon assets for plugin directory

#### 2.0.3

 * Hot fix for autocomplete search results

#### 2.0.2

 * Now with more Portuguese – Thanks to Renato Alves
 * Limits number of users returned via ajax suggest to improve performance with 
   large datasets

#### 2.0.1

 * Now with more Spanish – Thanks to Maria Ramos

#### 2.0.0

 * Major OOP rewrite
 * Admin Menu compliance with modern BuddyPress versions
 * Themes options page
 * Adds donate links
 * Autocomplete on Global Friend suggestions
 * Ajax actions for adding/removing global friends
 * General beautification

#### 1.6.2

 * Removes hooks from account sign-up and activation.
 * Friendships are now created upon a new user’s first login.
 * Resolves conflict with plugins such as “Disable Activation” that bypass the activation
   process.

#### 1.6.1

 * Post form to admin settings based on get_admin_url – fixes 404 upon saving form
   options in multisite installs

#### 1.6

 * Removed debug output on user activation page
 * Update code comments to PHPDoc
 * Create friendships upon user activation rather than user registration
 * Update friend counts for new users upon

#### 1.5

 * Add display that shows which users are selected via the admin panel.

#### 1.1

 * Update admin menu hook to support multisite.
 * Update to support BuddyPress 1.5

#### 1.0

 * First official release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0.8**
 *  Last updated **4 ел ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.9.13**
 *  Languages
 * [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/),
   [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/),
   [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/), һәм
   [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-automatic-friends)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[automatic](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/automatic/)
   [buddypress](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/buddypress/)[friends](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/friends/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-automatic-friends/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.2 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Steven Word ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevenkword/)

## Support

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