This plugin allows the site admin to restrict who can send private messages or to enable the users to choose themselves.
As of April 2026, BuddyPress Restrict Messages is a WordPress pm plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Front End PM – Ultimate Member….
This plugin is perfect for private message spam prevention. It allows site admin and users themselves to limit exactly who can send messages to the user.
This plugin creates an admin settings page called Restrict Messages. Here the site admin can choose to impose global restrictions over who can send messages to the user.
If message restrictions are delegated to the user, a user settings page is created at Profile>>Settings>>Messages.
Each of these settings pages, depending on which is active, allows private messaging to be restricted to:
The public setting allows connections from all groups to send messages to the user, otherwise private or pub…
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
20/07/2024
Fix: Corrected error that prevented the user based options from displaying.
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