BuddyPress

BuddyPress Followers v1.1 is out! Tell your friends!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/

This release brings full BP 1.5 compatiblity and also addresses a few other things:

* Adds WP Admin Bar support.
* Adds localization support.
* Adds AJAX functionality to all follow buttons.
* Adds follow button to group members page.
* Fixes following count when a user is deleted.
* Fixes dropdown activity filter for following tabs.
* Fixes member profile following pagination
* Fixes BuddyBar issues when a logged-in user is on another member’s page.

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Upgrading from v1.0
For those still sticking with BP 1.2.x, I’ve tried to make this release backwards-compatible all the way back to BP 1.2.6. For BP 1.2.x users, you’ll probably notice that the parentheses are missing from the navigation tabs. You can add them back by downloading these language files and placing them in your /wp-content/languages/ folder.

For those of you who have modified the bundled templates from v1.0, you might need to compare your modified templates with the bundled ones in v1.1.

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A big thank you to mrjarbenne for supporting this release. If you’re trying out this version, you should thank him!

Also, uber-props to apeatling for the original core code and for allowing me to maintain the plugin.

Good on you for updating this ray!

great news!

Thanks! This is excellent!

Thanx a lot …very very thankful..

Thumb up to u @r-a-y

Three cheers!!! Thank you @r-a-y

Woop woop! This is huge. Thanks so much for taking this over.

Few things I noticed:
* If a member has 0 followers or is following 0 people, the nav tabs don’t appear.
* Same with the subnav in Activity. Seems like it should just say “This user is not following anyone.” instead.
* “Users following me” and “Users I’m following” makes me think too much
* The toolbar top level menu feels out of place
* If you want to keep the “Follow” top level menu, maybe try to position it under “Friends” so it stays in the same order as the tabs
* Maybe add “Followers” and “Following” as children of activity
* The activity stream query seems a bit slow. I haven’t looked at this code in months, but maybe there are some optimizations that can be made to the query.
* Notifications don’t seem to want to clear.

All-in-all, I’m excited to be able to use this on the .org’s going forward.

This is great, one thing… When I click on the “Stop following user” button it takes me to an 404 page. Any idea how I can fix that?

Awesome! Thanks. One thing I noticed was the subnav not evident on the Following tab… probably because there aren’t any subnav menu items but I think having an empty one there would make the “theme” consistent with the other main navigation tabs. Thanks again, @r-a-y!

Thank you for your time and effort, @r-a-y! This is a happy day.

An idea for next version: Privacy.

Make an option for people to hide their account untill the person allows you to follow it, a bit like twitter.

@r-a-y,

Just a suggestion:

1. Screen real estate for the tabs is precious. “Following” and “Followers” each have its own tab. Is it possible to consolidate under one tab, and just use a legend (color, specified by the developer through CSS?) as a visual indicator to the user to identify the difference between the two? Maybe a dropdown to select which one to view?

2. If that’s possible, then the count of each type could be shown in tab label next to each other?

Just ideas… anyway, thanks again. This really does increase the social networking aspects by maintaining connections through, what is essentially a digital portfolio.

You will need to add this to your themes style.css to fix overlapping follow/unfollow buttons on the members directory page.

ul.item-list li div.action {
    top: 18px;
}
ul.item-list li div.action .follow, .unfollow {
    position: relative;
    top: 18px;
}

This is the sweetest thing since BP1.5, thanks , @r-a-y , one more thing to ask — some BP functions(or plugins) can choose to be “Friends Only” or ” if has friends…” , can we have “Followers Only” to replace this “Friends” componence completely?