﻿=== Ultimate Member - Followers ===
Author URI: https://ultimatemember.com/
Plugin URI: https://ultimatemember.com/extensions/followers/
Contributors: ultimatemember, champsupertramp, nsinelnikov
Tags: followers, community, discussion
Requires at least: 5.5
Tested up to: 6.7
Stable tag: 2.3.4
License: GNU Version 2 or Any Later Version
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
Requires UM core at least: 2.9.0

With the followers extension you can increase user interaction on your site by allowing users to follow each other.

== Description ==

With the followers extension you can increase user interaction on your site by allowing users to follow each other.

= Key Features: =

* Adds a follow/unfollow button to user profiles
* Displays followers/following stats on their profile
* Adds a follow/unfollow button to profile cards on member directories
* Shows follower/following stats on profile card on member directories
* Allow users to restrict their profile to their followers only
* Allow users to restrict their profile to only people they follow
* Users receive an email notification when someone follows them
* Users can turn off receiving email notifications from their account page
* Show a user’s followers and/or who they are following in siderbar with widgets
* Decide whether a user role can follow other users
* Restrict which roles a user role can follow

= Integrations with other extensions: =

* Notifications – Users can receive a notification when someone follows them
* Private Messages – Adds follow restrictions to pivate messages giving users more control over who can send them a private message

Read about all of the plugin's features at [Ultimate Member - Followers](https://ultimatemember.com/extensions/followers/)

= Development * Translations =

Want to add a new language to Ultimate Member? Great! You can contribute via [translate.wordpress.org](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ultimate-member).

If you are a developer and you need to know the list of UM Hooks, make this via our [Hooks Documentation](https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/1324-hooks-list).

= Documentation & Support =

Got a problem or need help with Ultimate Member? Head over to our [documentation](http://docs.ultimatemember.com/) and perform a search of the knowledge base. If you can’t find a solution to your issue then you can create a topic on the [support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-member).

== Installation ==

1. Activate the plugin
2. That's it. Go to Ultimate Member > Settings > Extensions > Followers to customize plugin options
3. For more details, please visit the official [Documentation](http://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/231-followers-setup) page.

== Changelog ==

= 2.3.4: November 14, 2024 =

* Added: Compatibility with Ultimate Member 2.9.0 and Action Scheduler for email sending
* Fixed: "Load textdomain just in time" issue

= 2.3.3: May 22, 2024 =

* Fixed: Loading assets in block builder
* Fixed: Using wp.template Underscore.js templates in block themes
* Tweak: Added Ultimate Member as required plugins

= 2.3.2: February 21, 2024 =

* Updated: User Photos access to actions for visible for followers and following users' albums and photos in them

= 2.3.1: December 20, 2023 =

* Fixed: Note and Album privacy settings. Performance for Activity wall loading.

= 2.3.0: December 11, 2023 =

* Tweak: Using enqueue scripts suffix from UM core class. Dependency from UM core 2.7.0
* Fixed: 'um_user_permissions_filter' hook attributes

= 2.2.9: October 11, 2023 =

* Fixed: Displaying "Notifications Account Tab" setting
* Fixed: User mentions suggestions and parse while posting
* Fixed: Case when extension isn't active based on dependency, but we can provide the license key field

= 2.2.8: August 28, 2023 =

* Added: Extra-validation in AJAX actions
* Fixed: Removed `extract()`
* Fixed: Hide "Hide followers stats" and "Hide follow button" settings on the "Edit Member Directory" page

= 2.2.7: May 29, 2023 =

* Tweak: Template overwrite versioning

= 2.2.6: August 17, 2022 =

* Fixed: Update followers|following counters on the user profile after follow|un-follow actions

= 2.2.5: February 9, 2022 =

* Fixed: Extension settings structure

= 2.2.4: July 20, 2021 =

* Tweak: WP5.8 widgets screen compatibility

= 2.2.3: May 7, 2021 =

* Added: Profile tab privacy for friends and followers only

= 2.2.2: March 29, 2021 =

* Added: PHP template for the profile followers bar
* Fixed: PHP notices when a user is mentioned in the Social Wall

= 2.2.1: December 10, 2020 =

* Added: AJAX loading of followers/following widgets
* Fixed: Widget load more users
* Fixed: Using "max" attribute in the widget

= 2.2.0: August 11, 2020 =

* Added: Fields privacy setting 'Only followers'.
* Added: *.pot file for the translations
* Fixed: Redirect after login on follow button click
* Fixed: Change the followers count on the member directory for the logged in user
* Fixed: Security issue with user IDs in data attribute
* Tweak: apply_shortcodes() function support

= 2.1.9: April 1, 2020 =

* Added: Change followers count after AJAX request
* Tweak: Optimized UM:Notifications integration

= 2.1.8: February 25, 2020 =

* Added: Filters for the additional attributes in the widgets' shortcodes
* Fixed: Follower & Following user links
* Fixed: Default shortcode's attributes

= 2.1.7: January 13, 2020 =

* Tweak: Integration with Ultimate Member 2.1.3 and UM metadata table
* Changed: Account notifications layout

= 2.1.6: November 11, 2019 =

* Optimized usermeta for Account submit security
* Added: Sanitize functions for request variables
* Added: esc_attr functions to avoid XSS vulnerabilities
* Added: ability to change templates in theme via universal method UM()->get_template()
* Fixed: replace placeholders

= 2.1.5: July 22, 2019 =

* Fixed: Profile Tabs privacy

= 2.1.4: July 16, 2019 =

* Added: Ability to rewrite templates via themes
* Fixed: Profile Tabs
* Fixed: Uninstall process

= 2.1.3: May 1, 2019 =

* Fixed: Member Directory following button

= 2.1.2: May 1, 2019 =

* Tweak: Wordpress.com compatibility

= 2.1.1: March 28, 2019 =

* Tweak: AJAX user suggestions integrations

= 2.1.0: November 27, 2018 =

* Fixed: AJAX vulnerabilities

= 2.0.9: November 12, 2018 =

* Fixed: Wall Mentions
* Optimized: JS/CSS enqueue

= 2.0.8: October 2, 2018 =

* Added: Groups integration
* Fixed: Wall Privacy

= 2.0.7: August 13, 2018 =

* Fixed: WP native AJAX handlers

= 2.0.6: August 10, 2018 =

* Fixed: Backward compatibility for Privacy Settings

= 2.0.5: August 10, 2018 =

* Fixed: Privacy account settings for sites with different languages

= 2.0.4: August 9, 2018 =

* Fixed: Limits of the followers displaying

= 2.0.3: June 18, 2018 =

* Added: GDPR compatibility on delete users

= 2.0.2: April 27, 2018 =

* Added: Loading translation from wp-content/languages/plugins/ directory

= 2.0.1: April 9, 2018 =

* Tweak: UM2.0 compatibility

= 1.2.1: March 10, 2017 =

* Tweak: update EDD plugin updater
* Added: 'um_followers_hide_button' filter hook to modify the follow button visibility.
* Added: 'um_followers_button_redirect_url' filter hook to modify follow button redirect url
* Fixed: Grammatical errors

= 1.2.0: October 10, 2016 =

* Tweak: update EDD plugin updater
* Added: Hide followers stats and tabs for non-followers
* Added: Deutch translation .mo and .po files
* Fixed: saving of privacy settings

= 1.1.9: January 25, 2016 =

* Fixed: exclude deleted users

= 1.1.8: January 5, 2016 =

* New: order members by followers
* New: adds a "follows you" text in profile header

= 1.1.7: December 11, 2015 =

* Initial Release
