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Adding the follow button to user posts/ images /other places on the site

jharford — Mon, 19 May 2014 18:21:44 +0000

I’d like to add the ‘view user profile ‘ , and ‘ Follow ‘ buttons to other areas of my site.
Thanks

sorry for duplicate post under test account

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jharford — Mon, 19 May 2014 18:53:56 +0000

Also , how to use the ‘heart’ like on other pages. Basically when someone views an image, I want the heart to be on that post page also , not only in the rollover.

Thanks!

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kabadabra — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:11:06 +0000

For follow buttons can do something like

follow_text($user_id_here_you_want_to_follow, get_current_user_id()); ?>

follow_text(‘User id that you want to follow’, ‘Your user id’)

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jharford — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:15:07 +0000

Thanks Kabadabra,
That’s useful but I need the code to do this on single pages dynamically. Do you know a way I can do this on single posts using the author name.

Thanks

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kabadabra — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:28:36 +0000

For you posts/pages get the author id by using something like

$author_id = the_author_ID();

Then for the follow button you can do

echo $userpro_social->follow_text($author_id, get_current_user_id());

This will allow users to follow the author of the post/page.

UserPro uses proper WordPress structure so the normal WordPress codex functions work as normal.

WordPress info on Author ID: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_author_ID

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jharford — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:43:05 +0000

Thanks for your help so far!,
Author ID gets the ID, let’s say poster is ID 8 ,
Does userpro require that ID ? or the actual name of the user.

I paste this inside the single.php

follow_text($author_id, get_current_user_id()); ?>

but when I click follow it adds a blank follower to my follow list , but not the right one, then removes it when I refresh.

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kabadabra — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:57:18 +0000

Change

to just

We are setting a variable here, not printing out the $author_id.

You may also want to add in


if($author_id != get_current_user_id()) {
//do code here
}

if($author_id != get_current_user_id()) {

//do code here

}

This will prevent the follow button to be displayed if you are logged in and it’s your own post as well.

so you full code would be:


$author_id = get_the_author_ID();
$current_user_id = get_current_user_id();
if($author_id != $current_user_id) {
    echo $userpro_social->follow_text($author_id, $current_user_id);
}

$author_id = get_the_author_ID();

$current_user_id = get_current_user_id();

if($author_id != $current_user_id) {

echo $userpro_social->follow_text($author_id, $current_user_id);

}

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jharford — Tue, 20 May 2014 11:09:51 +0000

I feel like we are almost there. 🙂
I added that code, however the user does not get added to my follow list. I will keep trying things.

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kabadabra — Tue, 20 May 2014 11:24:15 +0000

Cool…

sorry please change

$author_id = the_author_ID();

$author_id = get_the_author_ID();

Made a mistake with the author ID retrieval method

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jharford — Tue, 20 May 2014 11:38:06 +0000

Thanks! This works now. It’s perfect.
Now to figure out the other stuff. This is a great addition though, makes the site much more usable.
Thanks again