{"id":56367,"date":"2011-09-07T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=56367"},"modified":"2012-10-25T15:27:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:27:41","slug":"daily-tip-assign-automatic-friends-to-new-users-on-your-buddypress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-assign-automatic-friends-to-new-users-on-your-buddypress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Assign Automatic Friends to New Users on Your BuddyPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody likes to sign up to a new social network and feel like they have zero friends. The new <a title=\"BuddyPress Automatic Friends\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/bp-automatic-friends\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BuddyPress Automatic Friends<\/a> plugins makes your new users feel a little more at home upon signing up to your community. It automatically creates and accepts friendships for specified users upon new user registration.<\/p>\n<p>You can easily set the new automatic connections in the plugin&#8217;s options panel:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[56367]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/buddypress-automatic-friends.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56370\" title=\"buddypress-automatic-friends\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/buddypress-automatic-friends.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"702\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting new people connected right away will help to keep your community growing. Download <a title=\"BuddyPress Automatic Friends\" href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/bp-automatic-friends\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BuddyPress Automatic Friends<\/a> for free from the WordPress plugin repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody likes to sign up to a new social network and feel like they have zero friends. The new BuddyPress Automatic Friends plugins makes your new users feel a little more at home upon signing up to your community. It automatically creates and accepts friendships for specified users upon new user registration. You can easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-56367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204501,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56367\/revisions\/204501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56367"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=56367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}