Hi all, I have a working version of this plugin. Ideally, I’d be happy just to upload it and be a contributor. But if you no longer want to be a part of its continuing life, then I’d be willing to take over. The above page has the link to the working plugin.

Today after update to BP 12.0. was this plugin causing critical error on /activity/ page. So sad, I loved it. Now it must be deactivated and if it is dead already (8y from last update) I will never use it again.

There has been a critical error on this website after installingbuddypress follow plugin plz how can i resolve this problem

I am looking for a similar plugin if someone has something in his mind please let me know

i want this plugin but is not working anymore, do you have in mind to update it ?

There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.

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Hi, any chance you might breathe new life into this amazing plugin?

I tried the WordPress and also the Github version and both times my website crashed.
Would love to use it ??

hello. i understand the plugin on this page is not being updated and i am using the most recently updated version which is posted by @r-a-y on github at: https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers .

i am hoping that someone here can answer my question or provide some code. i also posted this question in the github above, at https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/issues/121. Here it goes:

Thank you for your hard work on this plug-in, which is awesome.

Of course, the plugin allows following of SITES or MEMBERS. For members, it is easy to know the sites they followed as members, because a list of their followed sites appears in their profile. However, SITE OWNERS do not have a similar way to find a list of all the MEMBERS who are FOLLOWERS of their SITES.

So if I am the creator of SITE A on the network, and USERS A, B, C, and D all decide to FOLLOW my site (using your awesome plugin):

-currently, my site will appear under each of A, B, C, & D’s profiles under their “followed sites”;

-How would I as the OWNER of SITE A get a report of all the USERS who followed my site? That report (a directory list?) would tell me hat 4 users have followed my SITE, named A, B, C, and D.

There is no field in the sites list showing the number of followers of a site, nor the ability to see a list of the followers. At least the admin or owner of the site should be able to know who is following his site, if for no other reason than to communicate with them. Since I am using SITES instead of GROUPS, there is no automatic field reporting these numbers. If I was using groups, BP would already report the users of a group and how many there are. But with followed sites under this plugin, there is no similar functionality as to SITES. (Groups does not work for my use case, because the users are creating sites on an MU install, not creating groups in BP).

If anyone can provide me with at least a code snippet or suggestion to simply report back the following from the database, for addition on the BP “SITES” directory in WP:

1. How many followers does this sites have?
2. Click a link to find out: Who are they? (sites and users are already associated, as each user’s profile lists his followed sites, so we just need to rearrange it so that the SITE directory entries lists the number of users following the SITE and who they are or a link to who they are.

Thank you very much.

• This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by buddypresser99.

Hello Sir,
Just to ask– Do you no longer support this plugin?

Regards

How do I refresh the buddypress follow count to be accurate? Users on my site still see profiles that are not following them on their followers’ list.

I have installed buddypress follow plugin ,Whenever user click follow button, it goes to “there is very critical error” page.

I have found a bug in bp-follow-notifications.php

Line 308 was throwing a fatal error in my logs.

The line:
$has_notified[] = $r['leader_id'];

The error:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /[snip]/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-followers/_inc/bp-follow-notifications.php:308

This is because line 301 asks for a string by setting the single flag to true

$has_notified = bp_get_user_meta( $r['follower_id'], 'bp_follow_has_notified', true );

• This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by lordmatt. Reason: tiny markup correction

The plugin is great! I noticed though a small conflict with BuddyPress private messaging composing. Some of the user’s friends’ names don’t appear w/ auto-complete in the “Send To (Username or Friend’s Name)” field.

Any thoughts on what string might be causing this?

Many thanks!

Hello Everyone,

On my profile page, If login user self and check follower or following then in follower member list and in following member list **Follow/Unfollow** button not display. If I visit other user page then follow / unfollow button display.
Ex. on self profile (On login user page)
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For other Member profile page

https://prntscr.com/11xfqx7

To get button I have used this code
$args = array(‘leader_id’ => $user_id, ‘follower_id’ =>$author_id, ‘link_text’ => ”, ‘link_class’ => ‘fa fa-user-plus’, ‘wrapper’ => ”);
echo bp_follow_get_add_follow_button($args);

So please let me know what issue with login user page ?
**Please Respond ASAP because this is urgent for my site**

Thanks

I use BuddyX theme and when you view the BuddyPress Follow plugin’s Follow button, it is aligned to the bottom rather than to the center of the member header actions bar area: Here is the code…. I think the problem may be that the follow button is introduced with the

• element rather than a <div> element… How can I fix this problem by editing the plugin?

  <ul class=”member-header-actions action”>
  <div class=”friendship-button not_friends generic-button” id=”friendship-button-6″>Add Friend</div>
  <li id=”post-mention” class=”generic-button”>Public Message

<li id=”send-private-message” class=”generic-button”>Private Message
<li class=”follow-button generic-button following” id=”follow-button-6″ style=””>Unfollow

Similar to instagram or twitter or many others, in a multi-user site, I would like to have a page that displays posts from users that I follow. I don’t want to see all the posts from all users..

How can I achieve this functionality ? Buddypress follow plugin solves half of the problem by providing follower mechanism. However, the other half, providing each user a page/newsfeed that only shows posts from specific users that he/she follows is something desirable.

Thanks

how we can integrate icon in the buddypress activity page filter ?

Hello,

currently, scope is set to friends like scope=”friends” but I would like also on the activity stream to display the posts from people I am following.

Could you please help me on how to resolve this? I already have BuddyPress 2.2+ and your master version.

Also, the following and followers sections, I see all the signed-in users instead of just people I am following or who are following me.

How can this be corrected?

WordPress database error Unknown column ‘follow_type’ in ‘where clause’ for query SELECT COUNT(id) FROM wp_bp_follow WHERE follow_type = ” made by require_once(‘wp-load.php’), require_once(‘wp-config.php’), require_once(‘wp-settings.php’), do_action(‘init’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_init, do_action(‘bp_init’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_setup_nav, do_action(‘bp_setup_nav’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, BP_Component->setup_nav, do_action(‘bp_follow_setup_nav’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_follow_user_setup_nav, bp_follow_get_the_following_count, BP_Follow::get_following_count

Can this plugin be used to allow non group members to follow a group? I would like to restrict group membership, but allow observers/followers who a non group members.

Followers and the following tab can see only logged users. How can I do it?

Also, I need Followers and following’s PHP hooks

Thank you
Jahid

Hello,

this plugin is really helpfull and works well so far, even after such a long time without any update.

Could you help me to rename the output on activity?
I want to set “Follows” instead of “Following”.

I tried it with this snippet – do you see my mistake?

/* Following */
function bp_translate_following_link( $translated_text ) {

    switch ( $translated_text ) {
        case 'Following %s' :
            $translated_text = sprintf( __( 'Follows %s', 'buddypress-followers' ), '<span>' . bp_follow_user_activity_following_count() . '</span>' );
            break;
    }
    
    return $translated_text;
}

add_filter( 'gettext', 'bp_translate_following_link', 20 );

Thank you,
Chris

• This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by vuture.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by vuture.

Hi is this plugin supported?

My Q was closed without receiving any reply at all.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/pointer-code-to-auto-follow-author-when-buying-via-product-post-woocommerce/

Thanks

Hi @apeatling ??

Any chance there will be a update of this now three year old plugin or will it be left to rot in the plugin graveyard?

It’s a great plugin, so it would be be shame if it was abandoned…

Thanks a lot in advance for your kind answer.

Kind regards
AngryWarior.

Just thought I’d write this for anyone who’s still looking at this plugin or thinking of using it for new websites.

The author/maintainer of the plugin seems to still be updating on github and made a number of fixes there: https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers

You can install it by following this: https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/install-wordpress-plugins-from-github/

Or by using wp-cli: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/cli/commands/plugin/install/#examples

I used this command with wp-cli: wp plugin install https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/archive/master.zip

I would like to add a follow button on my site. This plugin is no longer maintained.
Can someone please recommend a ‘follow’ ‘unfollow’ option for Buddypress?

This might be a useless query as it looks like this plugin has lost its support. When a user first ‘follows’ someone, the page transitions to a blank ‘error’ page. Returning back using the left button on browser gets back the previous page and when the ‘follow’ button is reused, the page properly refreshes and the button changes to ‘unfollow’ correctly. Please rectify.

To translate theme, we are using Loco Translate (also a WP plugin) and plugins and everything worked great so far. Then, we installed BP Follow for new theme and we can’t translate “following” button to Turkish now.

The entire translation file works great but when we tried to translate “following” to Turkish, nothing gets translated. Is there anyway to fix this issue?

Hello,

Please can you add this feature to the plugin for this instance, When I am on the profile of a user that is following me but I am not following the user, the button text displayed should be (follow back) instead of (follow). This is similar to how instagram’s follow button works.

Thanks

Hello,

I found this error in my debug.log file I am using the latest plugin version from github 1.3.0 and I am also using php 7.3

PHP Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-followers-master/_inc/users/widgets.php on line 113

thanks

Hi team,

Is BuddyPress Follow prepared to run properly on PHP Version 7.2.15?
I’m getting next PHP Errors with those settings:

WP Multisite 5.1.1
BuddyPress: 4.3.0
BuddyBoss Wall: 1.3.7
BuddyPress Follow: 1.2.2

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

…..\wp-includes\plugin.php(465): WP_Hook->do_action(A [CRITICAL] : Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in …..\wp-content\plugins\buddypress-followers\_inc\bp-follow-notifications.php:308

…..\wp-content\plugins\buddypress-followers\_inc\bp-follow-notifications.php(122): bp_follow_new_follow_email_notification(Array)

…..\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(286): bp_follow_notifications_add_on_follow(Object(BP_Follow))
…..\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(”, Array)
…..\wp-includes\plugin.php(531): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
…..\wp-content\plugins\buddypress-followers\_inc\bp-follow-functions.php(43): do_action_ref_array(‘bp_follow_start…’, Array)
…..\wp-content\plugins\buddypress-followers\_inc\bp-follow-actions.php(143): bp_follow_start_following(Array)
…..\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(286): bp_follow_ajax_action_start(”)
…..\wp-includes\class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Ho [CRITICAL] : Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in …..\wp-content\plugins\buddypress-followers\_inc\bp-follow-notifications.php:308

Thanks.