Hello Joseph,

Welcome to the BuddyDev Forums. BuddyPress does not provide and filter to modify active members query args at the time of listing active members using Widget or block. But you can use the following code to list active friends of logged-in users.

Try shortcode: [buddydev-active-friends-list]

add_shortcode( 'buddydev-active-friends-list', function ( $atts ) {

	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
		return '';
	}

	$atts = shortcode_atts( array( 'max' => 5 ), $atts );

	$members_args = array(
		'user_id'         => 0,
		'type'            => 'active',
		'max'             => absint( $atts['max'] ),
		'populate_extras' => true,
		'search_terms'    => false,
	);

	$friends_ids = friends_get_friend_user_ids( get_current_user_id() );

	$members_args['include'] = empty( $friends_ids ) ? array( 0 ) : $friends_ids;

	ob_start();
	?>
	<?php if ( bp_has_members( $members_args ) ) : ?>

			<div class="bd-active-friends-list avatar-block">

				<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>

					<div class="item-avatar">
						<a href="<?php bp_member_permalink(); ?>" class="bp-tooltip" data-bp-tooltip="<?php bp_member_name(); ?>"><?php bp_member_avatar(); ?></a>
					</div>

				<?php endwhile; ?>

			</div>

		<?php else: ?>

			<div class="error">
				<?php esc_html_e( 'No active friend found.', 'buddypress' ); ?>
			</div>

		<?php endif; ?>
	<?php

	return ob_get_clean();
} );

Please give it a try.

Regards
Ravi

Hello Joseph,

Please replace type ‘active’ with ‘online’ in the ‘$members_args’ variable it will list online friends.

Also, Note that BuddyPress consider the last 15 minutes active user as online users. You can change this threshold value using the filter.

Please check and let me know.

Regards
Ravi

Hello Joseph,

Thank you for the acknowledgement. Please try the following code it will set the online interval to 5 minutes.

add_filter( 'bp_user_query_online_interval', function ( $interval ) {
	return 5;
} );

Please check.

Regards
Ravi

Thank You