Hi Joshua,
Allowing unlinking is easy(as it will include deleting a few meta keys ). Allowing linking will depend on the plugin.
Does this plugin allows users to use their existing WordPress account? If yes, That can be done too.

Please do let me know an we can add some snippet.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Alex,
Thank you.
Here is an example filter implementation to show you show to remove the button

function buddydev_custom_disable_friends_button( $btn ) {

	//$btn is an associative array
        //two keys are of our interest
	//'id'                => 'not_friends'/ 'is_friend' / 'awaiting_response' / 'pending',
	//Other important field is 'link_id'=> 'friendship-button-' . $potential_friend_id

	//you can get the other user id from the link_id and current user id using get_current_user_id()
	//and decide to change the args as needed
	//if you return empty array or unset the 'id' key from the array, It will not generate any button
	return array();
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_add_friend_button', 'buddydev_custom_disable_friends_button' );

Please try going through it and see if it helps or not?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Alex,
Welcome to BuddyDev.

1. To change “friends” to connections please use a translation tool(like poedit) and you can translate the text.

For your other question, I will need a few details first:-

1. How does the admin connects two user? I mean how are you adding two users as friend?
2. DO you want to remove the add friend/remove friend completely or just add friend?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Olumuyiwa,
Thank you for the prompt response.

I am not sure what is causing as you seem to have it enabled properly. Can you please tell me which theme you are using ? Is it a BuddyPress specific theme?

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Olumuyiwa,
Thank you for using MediaPress and my apologies for the inconvenience.

Are you using any custom code too for MediaPress? Is it happening for user gallery(from profile?) Also, Can you please visit MediaPress->settings->Members and let me know what types have you enabled for the users?

Thank you
Brajesh