Friend connections and “friends” privacy level. Creating connections is at the core of every community. Friends plugin lets your members add friends, accept or decline friend requests, and set their post privacy to “Friends Only.” It’s essential! Friendship relationships are what keeps people coming back to the community.
Add Friends & Follow
Let your users make friends, as well as follow other members.
Friends Birthday Widget
Shows upcoming friends’ birthdays and birthday announcements on the day of the birthday.
My Friends Widget
Shows users’ latest friends when published.
Mutual Friends
When looking at members listing, you can see who is a mutual friend.
Mention Friends
Users can mention their friends in Status Updates and Comments.
Friends Only
Introduces Friends Only privacy level for Posts. Users can write posts only for friends to see.
Email Notifications
Users can get email notifications about pending friend requests.
On-site Notifications
Users get on-site notifications about pending friend requests.
Make Friends with Everyone
Automatically create friendship relations between a selected user and your entire community.
New User Friends
Decide whether to create new friendship connections between a selected user and newly registered ones.
Follow / Unfollow
Follow and unfollow user is a part of the friends plugin. Now you can follow other members and see what their posts about in your following stream without adding them as your friends. Or if you don’t want to see their posts on your following stream but you want to remain friends, just unfollow them. New friendships also are marked as people you follow and vice versa when you accept a friend request
Following Stream
When in Community view you can see everything going on in the community. Whereas, Following allows you to focus on the most important to you things. Your friends, your groups or even people you’re not friends with. Following stream posts only from members & groups you follow. So you won’t see posts from people or groups you don’t follow even if those posts have the privacy settings that allow you to see them. In addition there’s a secondary setting for showing and hiding ‘my posts’. If you don’t want to see your own posts and just focus on others.
Follow / Unfollow Members Filter
On members page you can filter members by the following status.