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[Muhammad Ali]

I will attempt to write a plugin myself first, fingers crossed. :p

On 18 February 2012 02:07, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:

> BuddyPress has a friend feature and I believe you can view activity from
> those subscriptions.
>
>
> On 02/15/2012 05:06 PM, Muhammad Ali wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions on how I could create a plugin or integrate a function in
>> place of the loop to follow users, much like is done in micro-blogging
>> sites.
>>
>> Any suggestions on the functions that will be used etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated and code examples would be awesome!
>> :)
>>
>> Here is a suggestion from Stack Overflow: Thoughts?
>>
>>   Just a plugin concept …
>>>
>>>    1.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Add a form with a button to each user profile, post or wherever you
>>>    want it named *Follow* or*Unfollow*. Show the button only if
>>>    is_user_logged_in()<http://**codex.wordpress.org/Function_**
>>> Reference/is_user_logged_in<http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in>
>>> >.
>>>
>>>    You may use a widget for the form.
>>>    2.
>>>
>>>    On form submit update a user meta<http://codex.wordpress.**
>>> org/Function_Reference/update_**user_meta<http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta>
>>> >
>>>
>>>     named follows for the user who clicked the button and another one
>>>    named followers for … well … the user who just got a new follower. Use
>>>    the user IDs as a serialized array (yes, ugly, I know).
>>>    3.
>>>
>>>    Create a dashboard widget or a whole page where the access is
>>>    restricted to users who can follow or be followed. Query for the user
>>>    meta<http://codex.wordpress.**org/Function_Reference/get_**user_meta<http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta>
>>> >
>>>
>>>    follows to get a list of all authors the current user has subscribed
>>>    to and then query for the posts from these users<
>>> http://codex.wordpress.**org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#**
>>> Author_Parameters<http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Author_Parameters>
>>> >
>>>    .
>>>
>>>    4.
>>>
>>>>    Get the user meta followers and print a nice list of her followers.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  E.g.
>> https://wordpress.org/support/**topic/does-it-exist-follow-**
>> authors-in-separate-stream<https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-exist-follow-authors-in-separate-stream>
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