Output user achievements using php or shortcode.

Given that I gave a fairly detailed explanation and have received no reply after 3 weeks is annoying. I found a fix, and it was fairly simple, another reason why someone could have responded.

Basically the shortcode attributes don’t work with this code, not sure why, it just means I had to create two instances of the same code for the two times I will use this in my site and define the attributes in the code itself.

Here’s the code I used for the profile page: http://pastebin.com/DDnd93Dm < this goes in your functions.php file. You change the “Parse our attributes” section to suit your needs.

I’ve used bp_displayed_user_id() for the user attribute because I wanted to get the username of the profile the person is viewing.

I output this code in the profile tab in Buddypress, so I used the “do_shortcode” function from WordPress to activate the shortcode through PHP.

<?php echo do_shortcode('[custom_badgeos_user_achievements]' ); ?>

Obviously you can play with the styles and add / change things, I’ve removed the name of the achievements as I just want the pictures to show up, by all means use the original code in my post above if that better suits your needs. Below is a link to the code I used for the forum loop (loop-single-reply.php). Oh and make sure if you’re editing Buddypress/Bbpress plugin files to copy the template into your theme folder. Otherwise you’ll loose your changes when you update, but I assume you know this if you’ve searched for this in the first place! Hope this helps those with the same problem. Happy coding!

http://pastebin.com/75ncvFbP

Also sort out your support, it’s terrible. – I did buy your plugin in the end also, maybe you could use the money to pay someone for the few hours it takes to help your customers.

Sorry for the seemingly angry response, it was only out of frustration as you said. Aside from that I really do love this plugin.

While you’re here I’d like to let you know that it doesn’t play nice with the plugin WP Awesome Support. I just purchased that plugin also and I had to disable it because it was preventing the nomination shortcode from showing up entirely. I can write up a more detailed diagnostics of the bug and email it to both parties if that’s be more useful to you. But I really wish they’d work together as I have paid for both. It’s usually a simple fix with these things.

I’d also like to know if there’s a way to change the nomination user selector dropdown to an input for the username. I will have thousands of users after launch and it’s getting crowded with just 40 beta users. Plus it uses the display name rather than the username, which is confusing when users have the same name.

I hope you can help me with these last things, I do respect how you’ve gone back and replied to all the unresolved support queries. Let me know if you can fix it here, or if I should email BadgeOS support.

Thanks for your fast reply Michael 🙂

Here’s the link: http://codecanyon.net/item/wp-awesome-support-responsive-ticket-system/4619686

If you need to investigate it’s code, I can email you admin login credentials to my website. I’ve just realised that the shortcode does show up, but it’s the approve/disapprove feature that disappears. Narrows the problem down a bit. Here’s a screenshot: http://cl.ly/Yiys

Obviously it’s impossible to guarantee support for everything, but if you could work out some form of a quick fix for me, that’d be great.

Were you suggesting that I make an enhancement ticket on GitHub? I’ve not done that before and wouldn’t know how. But it is a useful feature if you’re interested in looking into that, I can imagine a lot of people benefiting from having the option to type the username rather than choosing from a drop down of 10,000 people with similar names.

I was also wondering if there’s an option to make the approve / disapprove thing disappear once it’s approved? Obviously this is possible with the nomination list shortcode as you can choose to display pending / approved nominations, but it also appears above the nomination form without a choice. Not sure if I’m missing an option somewhere or it’s just something that hasn’t been added. But it’s annoying when there’s a massive list of nominations that have already been approved / denied. An effective quick fix would be to output the status of the nomination as a css class that I could set to “display:none” if approved. So for example:

<div class="badgeos-nomination badgeos-feedback badgeos-feedback-1840">
could be
<div class="badgeos-nomination badgeos-feedback badgeos-feedback-1840 approved">

Then I’d add the css:
`.badgeos-submissions .approved {display: none;}’

I mean that’d be a simple fix, unless you want to add that in as a feature or work out a solid hot fix.

Thanks again for your help!

For the login go to http://b.jamiepine.com (b for beta) and just create an account, I can then make you an administrator to have a poke around with the code. Don’t worry about putting in a real email if you don’t want. I can just approve it anyway. I would give you preset login credentials right here, but that’d be foolish, haha.

The JS options sounds a little too complicated for me, but I could probably work out how to make the filter, it seems relatively straight forward. Although it would take me probably 5 times as long as it would take you, would you be able to add in the get_post_meta( $nomination->ID, '_badgeos_nomination_status', true ) part to a filter that I could add? I actually just gave writing it a shot, wasn’t going to well for me at all, could you help create it for me?

Thanks for adding that Select2 idea to github for me also, would be good to see this implemented at some point.

Gotcha, made you an administrator 🙂

I’ve added the code (http://cl.ly/YlIj just so you can see where it is in the functions.php file), it breaks the nomination form for some reason.. I tested it several times, with the code there it just doesn’t show, and without the code it’s there again. Same thing that happened to me when I tried it.

Without code: http://cl.ly/YkXt With code: http://cl.ly/YlCH

You can test by clicking on awards in the top nav, if you need ftp details, message me on the site i’m @jamie

Note if you make changes in the code they often don’t show until you press “flush cache” on the wordpress admin bar.

Appreciate your time with this, I do apologise.

That’s weird, the one time I use cl.ly in months, is the time it fails, here they are on hopefully a working site

#1 http://pbrd.co/1v8rkbg
#2 http://pbrd.co/1v8rA9W
#3 http://pbrd.co/1v8raQU

The awards link is just to show you how to get to the awards (achievements), click on say, the “beta tester” award, the nomination form is there.

Awesome! Yeah that works a treat, thanks for that.

Let me know if you find the issue with the WP Awesome Support, it can’t be anything too major I’m sure.