{"id":73,"date":"2020-09-14T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/documentation.userswp.io\/article\/friends-extension\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:19:36","slug":"friends-extension","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/friends-extension\/friends-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the settings overview for the <strong>UsersWP &gt; Form Builder &gt; Profile Tabs &gt; Friends\u00a0 <\/strong>page.<\/p>\n<section class=\"alert alert-info\">You need to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/downloads\/friends\">Friends<\/a> extension for UsersWP installed and activated in order to access these settings.\u00a0<\/section>\n<h2>Friends Settings<\/h2>\n<p>The UsersWP Friends extension enables your site&#8217;s registered users to &#8220;Add Friends&#8221; and see a list of Friends on the profile.<\/p>\n<p>The UsersWP Friends extension allows registered users on your site to send friend requests and view their friends list on profile pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Add Friends Button<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe <strong>Add Friend<\/strong> button is displayed automatically on the Users listing page, usually available at <strong>yoursite.com\/users\/<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThis allows users to send friend requests directly from the directory.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/users.png\" \nclass=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Add Friend Button on Users Listing\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<h3>Make New Friends<\/h3>\n<p>To enable the Friends tab on user profiles, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <strong>UsersWP \u2192 Form Builder<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Open the <strong>Profile Tabs<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Friends<\/strong> tab to add it to your site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/friends-add-on-screen.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Add Friends Tab in UsersWP Form Builder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the settings overview for the UsersWP &gt; Form Builder &gt; Profile Tabs &gt; Friends\u00a0 page. You need to have the Friends extension for UsersWP installed and activated in order to access these settings.\u00a0 Friends Settings The UsersWP Friends extension enables your site&#8217;s registered users to &#8220;Add Friends&#8221; and see a list of Friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[137,138,139],"article\/categories":[5,13],"class_list":["post-73","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-friends","gd_place_tags-uwp_friends","gd_place_tags-uwp-extensions","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-friends-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}