BuddyDev

Brajesh Singh in 6 Comments

Today, As promised earlier, I am releasing the BuddyPress Limit Friendship Request plugin. The plugin allows you to throttle the friendship requests sent by a user on your BuddyPress based Social Network.

As a Site Administrator, you can set the time interval and the maximum no. of requests a user can send. In simple terms, the plugin allows you to rate limit the no. of friendship requests a user can send during a particular time interval.

The aim of BuddyPress Limit Friendship Request Plugin is to demotivate the spammers from sending a lot of friendship requests quickly.

Here is an example, how it works:-

• Let us assume the admin set the criteria as 10 requests per 20 minutes
• Assume User A adds friend 1 at 10: 11 AM
• Now, let us say the user A adds more friends and reaches the limit of 10 requests by 10:18 AM
• Once the limit is reached, user A won't will be able to add another friend till 10:32 AM(Since the 1st one was added at 10:11 AM, the plugin checks for the no. of requests in last 20 minutes )

I hope that clarifies the use case.

Screenshots:-

Settings Page:-

Message on Directory page:-

On Profile Pages:-

When using with Extended Friendship Request plugin:-

Download & Installation:-

https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-limit-friendship-request/

Please do share your thoughts and suggestions in the comment. I am looking forward to them.

PS: Will be releasing the Private Message Rate limit plugin tomorrow.

PPS: The HiBuddy theme is delayed for 2 more days, so please bear with us for now.