Friends

Lets your users ‘friend’ each other, display funky widgets with avatar mosaics of all their friends on the site and generally get all social!

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See Friends screenshots

Searching for friends to add
Friends page with your friends details listed
Friends widget in the sidebar
Sending a reply to a message from a friend
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Want a really powerful , yet straightforward, friends system but don’t want to use BuddyPress?

With this plugin, you can bring friends functionality to your WordPress multisite within mere minutes!

Packed full of features such as:

  • Allows your users to ‘friend’ each other
  • Lets users display funky widgets with avatar mosaics of all their friends on their site
  • Generally lets them get all social and hooked up with each other

Check it out!

Simply install and activate the plugin for your users to see an new ‘Friends’ menu below their Settings menu.

New Friends menu item

Now your users can easily search and add friends using Friends > Find Friends

Search for friends to add

The otther user receives an email notifying them of their friend request and can choose to approve or reject their request.

Approving and rejecting friends

And off course display all their friends in their sidebar using the friends widget.

Friends widget

And they can quickly use the links in the Friends widget to visit their friends’ sites!

Friends widget

Bests of all when integrated with the Messaging plugin they can easily send and receive messages from their friends within their dashboard.

This plugin is designed to be used with other social WPMU DEV plugins such as:

  • Messaging plugin – provides ability to easily send, receive and read your friend’s emails from inside your blog dashboard.
  • Avatars plugin – for friend’s avatars
  • Community plugin – create communities with their own discussion boards, wikis, news
    dashboards, user lists and messaging facilities within their WP admin
    area

We know you’re gonna love it….Enjoy!

Usage

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress Multisite.

To install:

  1. Install Messaging plugin
  2. Install Avatars plugin
  3. Download the plugin file
  4. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
  5. Upload /friends/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
  6. Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

  • That’s it! No configuration necessary!

Please Note:

  • If the auto-install does not add the db tables for you then run the sql code in “friends_sql.txt”.

To Use:

1.  Search for and add friends using Friends > Find Friends

Searching for friends

2.  Accept and reject new friend requests using Friends > Friend Requests.

Accepting and requesting friend requests

3. Add a friends widget to your sidebar using Appearance > Widgets.  Clicking on an avatar in the friends widget takes you to their site.

Friend widget

4.  You can view your friends and remove friends using Friends > Friends. 

5.  To send messages to friends from the friends page you need to have the Messaging plugin installed and activated.


 

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