Hi there,
Happy New Year.

1. In your case, since you only need to limit the number of requests a person can send, Please only enable “Restrict who can add friend?” and disable all other settings.

We only want to restrict request sending.

Now, You can put this in bp-custom.php

/**
 * Restrict sending request.
 *
 * @param bool $is_valid is valid request.
 * @param int $user_id sender user.
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function buddydev_custom_restrict_sending_friendship_request( $is_valid, $user_id ) {

	// If a user has these many friends, they won't be able to send new request.
	$limit_on_friends_count = 1;

	// If a user has specified number of friends, can not send new request.
	if ( friends_get_friend_count_for_user( $user_id ) >= $limit_on_friends_count ) {
		return false;
	}

	// for sent request count.
	global $wpdb;
	$bp = buddypress();

	$sent_count = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT('*') FROM {$bp->friends->table_name} WHERE initiator_user_id = %d", $user_id ) );

	// this is the maximum number of request a user can send
	// it includes accepted friendship(sent by the user too).
	$allowed_request_count = 1;// change it if you need.
	if ( $sent_count >= $allowed_request_count ) {
		return false;
	}

	return $is_valid;
}

add_filter( 'bpf_restrictions_user_is_valid_sender', 'buddydev_custom_restrict_sending_friendship_request', 10, 2 );

This will solve your issue of the restriction and you will not need to make auto friends. Please update the values as you need.

By default, BuddyPress does not list sent friendship request. We implemented in our theme(Community Builder) but most other theme won’t have this.

We are going to release CB2 in next 1-2 week(it has been going on a overhaul for months) and we are putting a free version for our members too. You can give it a try and see if it suits you then.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Daniel,
That’s good to know. It seems you are using Bp Nouveau template pack as it has this functionality in the customizer.

Regards
Brajesh

Please use this

input#limit_membership_count {

  width: 50px !important;
}

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Philippe,
Thank you for posting.

It seems to me that you are using a plugin for creating custom roles.

Here is what I am guessing the issue is, the custom roles created by the plugins are not available on BuddyPress Activation action.

WordPress will set the role if it exists and it seems to me that due to the priority of activation action, the custom roles are most probably not available.

To check this, Can you please map student to “Contributor” and try. This is a built in role and should give us a better idea.

Please let me know how it goes and also which plugin you are using for creating custom role, I can look into it and see if there is any way to make the roles available early from it.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Daniel,
Since the reordering is allowed by theme, I am unable to assist much here. My advise will be to wait till the first week when they are back and can assist you.

Regards
Brajesh