BuddyPress Block Users 1.2.0

Overview

BuddyPress Block Users by BuddyDev is a powerful and essential plugin designed specifically for BuddyPress-based communities aiming to create a safer, more personalized user experience. This tool empowers your community members by giving them full control to block other users, ensuring protection from unwanted interactions and creating a respectful online environment. By integrating seamlessly with BuddyPress, BuddyPress Block Users makes managing relationships within your community effortless and efficient, helping site admins uphold community standards without constant micromanagement. What truly sets BuddyPress Block Users apart is its comprehensive, role-based control system. Not only can you specify which user roles have the ability to block others, but you can also whitelist certain roles from being blocked, adding an extra layer of moderation tailored to your community’s needs. This flexibility combined with advanced features such as automatic unfriending/unfollowing, customizable notification settings, privacy controls, and restrictions on messaging and friend requests makes this plugin indispensable for communities seeking to mitigate harassment, foster positive engagement, and maintain a healthy social environment.

Key Features

• Role-Based User Blocking: Limit blocking permissions to specific user roles for granular community management, ensuring only trusted users can block others.
• Role-Based User Whitelisting: Protect key user roles from being blocked, maintaining essential member connectivity and administrator authority.
• Automatic Unfriending/Unfollowing: Automatically remove friendships or follows when a block occurs, streamlining relationship management and preventing awkward social overlaps.
• Optional Reason for Blocking: Encourage accountability by allowing blockers to provide a reason, which can be useful for moderation transparency.
• Admin Notifications: Optional alerts for admins when users block or unblock others, enabling timely oversight of community interactions.
• User-Specific Contextual Restrictions: Apply intelligent, context-based restrictions to tailor the block experience uniquely for different situations and users.
• Friendship Request Controls: Prevent blocked users and blockers from sending friendship requests to each other, effectively removing unwanted social connections.
• Private Message Restrictions: Disable private messaging between blocked pairs, minimizing potential harassment while respecting user privacy.
• Activity Mentions Blocking: Stop public activity mentions between blocked users, ensuring peace and reducing visible conflicts in public feeds.
• Profile View Restrictions: Allow users to restrict profile visibility to blocked users, maintaining privacy and safety within the community ecosystem.
• Members Listing Control: Hide blocked users from each other’s member listings, reducing direct exposure and potential friction among members.
• Activity Feed and Comments Filtering: Hide activity posts and comments between blocked users for a cleaner, less confrontational community stream.
• Fully Compatible with Latest BuddyPress Versions: Regular updates ensure smooth operation and compatibility with the latest BuddyPress releases and WordPress versions.
• REST API Support: Enables developers to integrate blocking features into custom workflows or app environments via REST API endpoints.
• Comes Free with BuddyPress Moderation Tools: Gain added value as this plugin is included as a free companion plugin when purchasing BuddyPress Moderation Tools.