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Follow / Followers Plugin update

  • Keymaster
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    Brajesh Singh on February 12, 2022 at 11:40 pm #43151

    Hi Nitin,
    This plugin was dropped in favour of relationship API for BuddyPress. I do have that plugin partially available. I will most probably do a release sometimes in future.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Tosin on February 13, 2022 at 12:02 pm #43158

    Hello Brajesh,

    1. Since some of your plugins support the follow plugin, when the relationship api is available, what will happen to sites that still use the follow plugin or is there any code similarity between the relationship api and follow plugin. Im just wondering if some of the custom code you provided for the follow plugin will break when the new relationship api is available.

    2. What will happen to site that use the follow plugin and the relationship data created by the follow plugin. will there be some kind of data import or synchronization.

    3. What is the estimated time of arrival for the reationship api

    Thanks

  • Keymaster
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    Brajesh Singh on February 15, 2022 at 11:50 pm #43231

    Hi Tosin,
    Thank you for the questions.

    1. I am unable to say much on this. The relationship API is at the core and The BuddyPress follow will use it. I can tell that the relationship API is different.

    The follow plugin will be written using this API and it may have the same hooks. I am not sure how this will play out.

    2. You can keep using the old. If there is a migration path in future, you can migrate the users from old follow to the follow using relationship API.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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