Paul Wong-Gibbs

Hi

Not all of the shortcodes are meant to be able to be used everywhere. I am generally not keen on shortcodes, but posted a list elsewhere on this support forum sometime ago, which is where I guess you found them.

The “dpa-user-achievements-index” shortcode is probably not working because it can’t find a user ID to look up the list of the user’s achievements. It’s used internally when on the /author/paulgibbs/achievements/ -type pages and it has special detection to grab the right user ID.

I would have to add some kind of user ID parameter for the shortcode to get it to work, which I’ll consider adding to the next version. However… things like pagination wouldn’t work if people used the shortcode multiple times for different users on the same page — which would probably just end up giving me more support quests — so that’s kind of why I haven’t done it already.

Correct. And I don’t intend to ever implement it as a form of virtual currency for anything, so if that’s specifically what you had in mind, you’ll need to find another plugin.

Not super easily. You’ll need to duplicate any templates that contain that label and rename them.

There is no technical reason why the plugin wouldn’t be “mobile accessible”. I have an iPhone, so I’ll spin up a test site and check everything’s working. Do you know if you have any special mobile theme or mobile-specific plugins or tweaks enabled? If you’re not sure, let me know what theme you’re using, and please give me your WordPress and Achievements version numbers, as well as a full list of all the plugins active on your site.

And categories don’t show on the .com/achievements/ page, yes. That’s to be expected. They show up in WordPress’ regular category archive pages, e.g. http://buddypress.org/category/community/ — I think from memory they may need custom templates or some code tweaks for the achievements to actually show up. Category support was added as a request by someone who wanted the functionality on their site; they used it well, but it’s not something I’ve specifically exposed in the default plugin.

However, there seems to be no point right now, because on the site all achievement both mens and womens are clustered together.

Where you are looking? .com/achievements/ ?

If you want the same event to only give points but not a new achievement, you’ll need to find something else or customise the code. Achievements intentionally doesn’t work like this.

If there is, you’re the first person to say anything.

* What version of WordPress did you upgrade from?
* Did you make ANY other changes when you upgraded WordPress?
* What template files did you override in your theme — can you give me the exact path in your theme, please?

Hmm, Achievements does support categories out of the box. Do you not have the regular category picker on the new/edit achievement screens in wp-admin?