How to remove Follow buttons based on user capabilities

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(@nurdanucergmailcom)

13 years, 1 month ago
Hello,

I would like to limit the option of being ‘followable’ to authors (members of a certain group in Buddypress happen to be WP authors), so I am using the following snippet to remove follow buttons from other users (subscribers mostly):
```
if ( ! user_can( bp_displayed_user_id(), 'delete_posts' )  )
remove_action( 'bp_group_members_list_item_action', 'bp_follow_add_group_member_follow_button' );
```
Is there a smarter way of doing this without messing with the plugin files?

Thank you!

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

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Plugin Author r-a-y
(@r-a-y)

13 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

You can try adding your snippet to your theme’s functions.php or wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file.

Let me know if that works for you.
Thread Starter inactive
(@nurdanucergmailcom)

13 years, 1 month ago
Thanks for the quick response, and thank you for making your work and time available for the community.

Unfortunately it didn’t work from the functions.php or the bp-custom.php. It appears not to be reading the user capabilities and removes the buttons for everyone regardless of their caps.

Only when I edit the bp-follow-hooks.php in the plugin folder I got it to work properly:
```
function bp_follow_add_profile_follow_button() {

	// customization to remove button from subscribers
	if ( user_can( bp_displayed_user_id(), 'delete_posts' )  )

		bp_follow_add_follow_button();
}
add_action( 'bp_member_header_actions', 'bp_follow_add_profile_follow_button' );
```
Do you think this needs to be wrapped in a function to work from elsewhere?

Your help is much appreciated.
Plugin Author r-a-y
(@r-a-y)

13 years, 1 month ago
Gotcha.

Thanks for posting your example.

What you need to do is remove the default button and run your function after BP Follow’s.

Try the following:
```
// remove the default BP Follow button
remove_action( 'bp_member_header_actions', 'bp_follow_add_profile_follow_button' );

// add custom button
function my_follow_add_profile_follow_button() {

	// customization to remove button from subscribers
	if ( user_can( bp_displayed_user_id(), 'delete_posts' )  )

		bp_follow_add_follow_button();
}
add_action( 'bp_member_header_actions', 'my_follow_add_profile_follow_button' );
```
Thread Starter inactive
(@nurdanucergmailcom)

13 years, 1 month ago
Worked like a charm! Thank you!

But why couldn’t I get this one (member listing buttons) to work in the same way? It removed the button from all users:
```
// remove the default BP Follow button
remove_action( 'bp_directory_members_actions', 'bp_follow_add_listing_follow_button' );

// add custom button
function my_follow_add_listing_follow_button() {
    global $members_template;

	if ( $members_template->member->id == bp_loggedin_user_id() ||  ! user_can( bp_displayed_user_id(), 'delete_posts' )  )
		return false;

		bp_follow_add_follow_button( 'leader_id=' . $members_template->member->id );
}
add_action( 'bp_directory_members_actions', 'my_follow_add_listing_follow_button' );
```
Thread Starter inactive
(@nurdanucergmailcom)

13 years, 1 month ago

Silly me, I got it. Changing the conditional from:

! user_can( bp_displayed_user_id(), 'delete_posts' )

to

! user_can( $members_template->member->id, 'delete_posts' )

fixed the problem. 🙂

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