BuddyDev | BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro

BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro - Automate your social relationships in BuddyPress

BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro is an advanced plugin for BuddyPress websites, designed to automatically create connections between community members. This tool streamlines the onboarding process for new users, increases engagement levels, and helps you quickly build a strong network of relationships on social media sites, forums, and e-learning platforms powered by WordPress.

Functionalities and configuration options

• Auto-Friend Rules – Define criteria (user role, email domain, country, profile tags, group membership) that determine whether invites are automatically sent or connections are made directly.
• Multi-variant scenarios – options to automatically connect new users with moderators, mentors, members of the same company, or participants of the same course.
• Schedule and delays – settings that allow you to gradually add friends (e.g., the first 24 hours after registration), which reduces the risk of blocks and improves natural behavior.
• Exclusions and filters – lists of trusted accounts, excluded users, minimum account age, and restrictions on specific roles and groups.
• Import/Export Rules – Ability to export configuration and import it on another WordPress installation, speeding up deployment to test and production environments.
• BuddyPress Theme Compatibility - The plugin works with common BuddyPress themes and extensions, ensuring consistent integration without interfering with standard profile views.
• Logs and reports – detailed records of actions (who, when, and how was connected), facilitating auditing and optimizing community building strategies.

Benefits for website owners and administrators

Automating social relationships reduces manual administrative tasks and accelerates new member engagement. With BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro, you can increase account activation rates, improve user retention, and build an active network of contacts, fostering content sharing and increased logins. Flexible rules allow you to tailor user connection to your business goals—building professional groups, hobby communities, educational platforms, or private corporate intranets.

Practical applications

• Learning Platforms – Automatically connect students with instructors and project groups, streamlining collaboration and communication.
• Industry and networking sites – instantly introduce new members to your network, improving your profile visibility.
• Hobby Communities – Quickly create a circle of friends with similar interests, increasing content exchange and forum activity.
• Intranets and company communities – assign employees to teams and leaders, which shortens adaptation time and improves internal communication.

Security, performance and privacy

BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro provides controls to ensure automated actions remain predictable and secure. Daily limits, delays, and rigorous filters prevent unwanted friendship spam. Built-in logs allow you to monitor activity without revealing additional user information, and privacy settings allow you to respect community members' preferences.

The implementation has been optimized for minimal impact on site performance – operations can be run periodically or in the background using cron mechanisms, reducing the load when dealing with a large number of accounts.

Why Choose BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro

• Scalability – suitable for both small communities and large portals with thousands of users.
• Flexibility – Extensive rules and exclusions allow you to fine-tune automated behaviors.
• Better engagement – Automated connections translate into higher engagement and faster interaction between members.
• Faster onboarding – new users receive immediate connections, increasing the likelihood of them staying on the platform.

BuddyPress Auto Friendship Pro is a tool that makes it easy to build active communities on WordPress. With advanced rules, control, and reporting options, this plugin is perfect for quickly establishing relationships and effectively managing connections between users.