Hello,
Thank you for writing to us.
Please find our comments for your questions:
1)Profile Grid is based on social networking theme. It comes with wide range of social networking features like connecting with friends, real time chat, group system, blogging and many more…
We strongly recommend you to go through our website “https://profilegrid.co/profilegrid-starter-guide/” and check plugin’s features and extensions and then decide if it fits your requirement.
2) You can search profile in dashboard using some criteria like registration time, profile status, groupwise etc. To check this go to “ProfileGrid >> Users Profile” in dashboard.
For Front End – You can allow advance searching on the basis of field you allow.
Advance filter criteria can be set through backend in from “Fields >> Edit( desired field ) >> Display in Advance Search”. It will start appearing on front end as a criteria of filtering.
3) Our plugin provides real time messaging feature (Messages tab in profile page) in users profile after being logged in. Using this user can send messages to friends/group members.
Please let us know if you have any further questions.