Add Follow Button on a post

Hi,

Just wrote up a tutorial on this:
https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/wiki/Add-a-follow-button-on-a-regular-WP-page

See if it works for you.

You rock, @r-a-y!

Works perfectly. I got it to work outside the loop as well with the following:

$temp_post = get_post($post_id);
	$user_id = $temp_post->post_author;
	$author_bp = get_the_author_meta('ID' , $user_id );

Then I replaced both get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) in your code with $author_bp.

Thanks a million! Great plugin!

Cool! Glad it worked for you.

hello, I’m looking for this as well.

I would like to put the ‘folow’ button under my ‘author page’

I tried to put the code from here
https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/wiki/Add-a-follow-button-on-a-regular-WP-page

However, it doesmt work, may you please help wih this?
Thanks so much!

You’re probably using the code outside the loop, so follow what operapreneur posted above.

If that doesn’t work for you, you’ll need to find another way to get the author user ID.

For other alternatives to get the author user ID outside the loop, try:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/77325

got it thanks so much!

Where do you put the code? Somewhere in the editor? Sorry, I’m newbi.

<?php
if ( function_exists( ‘bp_follow_add_follow_button’ ) ) :
if ( bp_loggedin_user_id() && bp_loggedin_user_id() != get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) {
bp_follow_add_follow_button( array(
‘leader_id’ => get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ),
‘follower_id’ => bp_loggedin_user_id()
) );
}
endif;
?>