{"id":90,"date":"2021-03-08T05:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/documentation.userswp.io\/article\/followers-setup-guide\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:39:33","slug":"followers-setup-guide","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/followers\/followers-setup-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Followers Setup Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t This article will guide you through the process of setting up the Followers extension for UsersWP.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<h2>Getting Started<\/h2>\n<section class=\"alert alert-info\">\n<p>\t You need to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/downloads\/followers\/\">Followers<\/a> extension for UsersWP installed and activated in order to access these options.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>\n\t Followers extension for UsersWP lets your website&#8217;s users follow each other, just like Twitter.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis extension does not have a Settings page per se. When installed and activated, it adds two new profile tabs &#8212; <strong>Followers <\/strong>and <strong>Following.&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Followers <\/strong>displays the list of users who follow the current profile owner.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Following <\/strong>displays the list of users followed by the current profile owner.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tYou can easily add or remove these tabs by heading to <strong>UsersWP &gt; Form Builder &gt; Profile Tabs. <\/strong>Note that you need to install and activate the extension before accessing the Form Builder.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img width=\"920\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-YwYeKBty2m-1024x464-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-YwYeKBty2m-1024x464-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-YwYeKBty2m-1024x464-1-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-YwYeKBty2m-1024x464-1-768x348.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIf used in assonance with the <strong>Real-Time Notifications <\/strong>extension, you can send users notifications when a new user follows them. Find details in the <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/article\/realtime-notifications-setup-guide\/\">Real-Time Notifications Setup Guide<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOutput\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Profile tab displaying list of followers of current user:&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img width=\"920\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_followers-1-1024x643-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_followers-1-1024x643-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_followers-1-1024x643-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_followers-1-1024x643-1-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProfile tab displaying list of users followed by the current user:&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img width=\"920\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_following-1024x647-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_following-1024x647-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_following-1024x647-1-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/uwp_following-1024x647-1-768x485.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2>\nFollowers Shortcode<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n\tThe Followers addon provides the&nbsp;[uwp_follow_user] shortcode. Youn can use the shortcode builder to set the author ID, but it will work on an GD Listing or the UWP list item or profile page automatically for the post author.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img width=\"773\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-VDiAv8B7Pi-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-VDiAv8B7Pi-1.png 773w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-VDiAv8B7Pi-1-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/file-VDiAv8B7Pi-1-768x330.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article will guide you through the process of setting up the Followers extension for UsersWP.&nbsp; Getting Started You need to have the Followers extension for UsersWP installed and activated in order to access these options.&nbsp; Followers extension for UsersWP lets your website&#8217;s users follow each other, just like Twitter.&nbsp; This extension does not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[111,130,158,159,100],"article\/categories":[5,28],"class_list":["post-90","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-setup-guide","gd_place_tags-twitter","gd_place_tags-followers","gd_place_tags-following","gd_place_tags-userswp-extensions","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userswp.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}