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  • Participant
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    Didier on July 14, 2022 at 1:58 pm #45712

    Hello,

    Your plugin looks great but do plan to add the ability to suggest friends based on your existing friends (friends of friends).

    For example, if I’m friend with member A and Member A is friend with Member B. The plugin should suggest Member B to me.
    As a parameter, we should set the max level of friendship to consider (level 1 = friends of my friends, 2 = friends of friends of my friends, …).

    Another great enhancement could be to suggest members belonging to same groups or group type or number of groups in common (if we are both in a group, it probably means that we can connect each other).

    Thanks

  • Keymaster
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    Brajesh Singh on July 14, 2022 at 10:22 pm #45715

    Hi,
    Thank you for your interest in the plugin.

    We do want to add the functionality. The issue is we can not use multiple source in one instance of the widget.

    For example:- I consider xprofile matching as one source of user, Friends of Friends as another source of user and Group Members and another.

    These 3 sources are not related and there is not a well defined path for providing the list if we do not restrict the source.

    But 3 different instances of this widget can show suggested user’s from once source per widget. Will this kind of setup be helpful? we are not sure about this and that’s why this has not yet landed in the plugin.

    We do have a free plugin for Friends of Friends based suggestion.

    https://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-friends-suggest/

    Regards
    Brajesh

  • Participant
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    Didier on August 25, 2022 at 12:56 pm #46153

    Hi,

    I do understand your point. For me, having 3 differents instance widgets is OK (beeing able to choose the source in the widget setting is also ok). It’s not perfect but at least, we can suggest friends to members…

    For the moment, xprofile fields are not suitable for suggesting friends to users.

    Kind regards

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