Well, here I am almost a year later, and I still haven’t found my WordPress follow button. I tried changing themes/templates, I tried searching all the help and WordPress how to and forums I could find, and nothing suggested has worked, to date.
I have found a workaround, fingers crossed. There is a ‘SUBSCRIBE’ block. I found a theme/template that offers a sidebar widget that allowed me to add that block to my sidebar. I have not tested it for non-WordPress users, yet, but hope that it will allow even those folks to follow my blog.
If it works, I will start posting more often again.