Is It Just Me, Or Does BadgeOS Take People ALL OVER a Website?

  • jrunfitpro

    (@jrunfitpro)


    8 years ago

    I know there’s many good things about this plugin, but one of the really unusual and bad things about BadgeOS is that it’s unorganized.

    I get more complaints from members about our Achievements System (BadgeOS) than any other feature. In large part, they get lost. If one clicks on a badge, it takes them to a whole new part of our site, and away from the main member’s content. Then, it’s not really for certain whether or not they’ve earned the badge?

    I have BuddyPress installed, and there’s never a notification about earning a badge. In addition, when one receives an email, it’s bland and ugly.

    I realize I can buy more add-ons, but at this point, I already have five plugins just for BadgeOs. It’s really not realistic to have a plethora of plugins for one function.

    If all points and badges were localized under the user profile (in the top right WP User Profile) and wherever the profile is on site, that would rock.

    Is there anyone that can help customize this into a way more organized unit? Or someone that can make a better recommendation of an on site points system?

    Thanks,

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos/

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  • Thread Starter jrunfitpro

    (@jrunfitpro)

    8 years ago

    Here’s the solution. Making everything automatic like the YouTube community : https://www.youtube-creatorcommunity.com

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    One thing to keep in mind is that achievements are post types and posts in post types. So they behave as such if providing links to the permalink for them, which does occur by out-of-box design in some cases.

    There are no BuddyPress-based notifications set up in the community addon that are related to having earned an achievement. It is a known request and there are open enhancement issues on the topic. There are addons available for BadgeOS in general that are meant to provide a popup-based notification upon achievement.

    The Community Addon should already be able to display a displayed user’s achievements list, and out of the box with BadgeOS there is the widget and shortcode for display current achievements for the logged in user.

    I wasn’t around for a lot of the design decisions, but I know that it was all meant to be extensible by others to add functionality as needed rather than all out-of-box and having people need to scale back and “trim” features they didn’t need. Selective addition than selective removal.

    Thread Starter jrunfitpro

    (@jrunfitpro)

    8 years ago

    Thank you Michael. I always appreciate your feedback. I apologize, it’s just a little frustrating to have members frustrated with stuff that’s out of my control.

    What would be your best suggestion to avoid sending the members to the achievement post types? The Pop-up? Is there a way I can hide the achievement type posts? When I use the short code to display all achievement or obtainable badges, this is where they go once clicked on.

    What’s the best short code for displaying badges, but not on the sidebar? I’m trying to remove stuff from the sidebar for a better mobile experience.

    Is there anyway to modify the emails?

    Thanks for the help!

    Justin

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    The biggest frustration is going to be that there’s no point and click UI for modifying all of this.

    A lot of our content output is run through a WordPress filter so that it can be customized at the last moment for users, or at least technically the coding savvy ones. It’s there that you’d be able to copy/modify the output, while modifying enough to remove the permalinks from being included as <a> tags.

    the [badgeos_achievements_list] one is best for showing achievements, should be able to be used anywhere that a shortcode can be displayed. Do note that due to the ajax involved in it, there is a limit of 1 per page. Multiple instances will have the 2nd+ not changing like expected.

    I’ve only ended up doing 2 articles at the moment, but both are fairly related here. Both are also code based since I wrote them from a developer POV. You can find them at my site at https://trexthepirate.com/badgeos/articles/

    I know there are filters for the wp_mail() function, but I would need to look them up. This one is not necessarily so much a BadgeOS thing than a WordPress in general thing.

    Thread Starter jrunfitpro

    (@jrunfitpro)

    8 years ago

    Thank you Michael. Good blog. So, would I just add the code from the blog to my theme file?

    Also, do you know of any good developers who could streamline and organize this for me? Ideally for a reasonable rate?

    Thanks Michael,

    Justin

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    I wouldn’t copy/paste the examples from my blog posts as is, I’d look them over to see how they were used so you or someone else could tailor the use for your own needs.

    I lack contacts for any sort of referral work, sorry.

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