Buddypress in child theme template

[bhavya]

Hi,
I want to use certain buddypress functionality while displaying the wordpress posts.
Specifically – I am trying to use bp_displayed_user_id/$bp->displayed_user->id inside content.php (in my child theme). But bp_displayed_user_id returns 0 inside content.php
Can you please let me know how i could do this?
Thanks.

[sharmstr]

have you declared

global $bp;

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[sharmstr]

Wait. bp_displayed_user_id is for use within a profile. Basically its what user is being displayed. Do you need something like logged in user instead?

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[bhavya]

Yes I have declared global $bp.
Basically, I want to display buddypress follow button in the author meta.
So I need both displayed user id & logged in user. And i want bp_displayed_user_id to be set correctly at this stage (to enable follow button) but it is not.
I am able to use bp_loggedin_user_id to get the logged in user.

[sharmstr]

You cant use bp_displayed_user_id to return the author id from a post because as I said before, you’re not in a buddypress profile.. You need to use https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_author_meta

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[bhavya]

But I am able to use bp_displayed_user_id inside post-content-small.php which basically lists all the posts. That is why I am wondering if I am missing something while displaying the individual posts?
Can I somehow extend buddypress profile to use in content.php?
Thanks!

PS: If i use the author meta i will have to make a lot of changes in my existing function so keeping it as a last resort.

[sharmstr]

I dont understand why you’d have to make a bunch of changes. All you’re looking to get is the userid of the author. Once you have that, you can use it in any buddypress function call.

So instead of $bp->displayed_user->id, use get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ );

If you look at the Kleo author meta functions, it uses get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) to call buddypress functions as well. That’s because you cant use $bp->displayed_user->id to get the author id.

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[bhavya]

hmmm..Inside my function am actually using bp_displayed_user_id in some places to perform certain checks as to display the follow button or not & the same function is called from different places.
Anyway, I will just work around that.
Thanks for your help! 🙂

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