For those people using Welcome Pack, please be aware there is a new release of BuddyPress, version 1.2.4, out at the end of this week. The email feature of Welcome Pack might stop working until I get an update out, which I shall endeavour to do as soon as possible; might not be until after the first weekend.
Current version of the Create Achievements screen.
Looks sweet!
Will we be able to assign an image to be used for each achievement through the new admin panel too?
Cheers,
John
Hi John, thanks for writing.
Yes; after an Achievement is created (per screenshot), it redirects to that Achievement’s “Detail view” page. There will be an option in the nav on this page to select an image, from the WordPress Media Library; currently working on this at the moment.
Thanks for the update, I’m looking forward to the new version!
It looks like you are using Chrome….Good Man! A handy little extension you might want to use for Chrome is called “Webpage Screenshot” it has two options to “Capture the Whole Page” or “Capture Visible Screen”
It might come in handy for you when creating screen shots for the blog etc as it can display the whole page.
You can check it out here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ckibcdccnfeookdmbahgiakhnjcddpki?hl=en
Keep up the awesome work.
Cheers,
John
Thanks for the tip!
Hi Paul,
Love the plugin and looking forward to the updates you hint at above. If you need a hand testing the plugin at all, please let me know!
Also, did you manage to find a fix for this query?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/379133
Keep up the great work!
Ben
Oops, hadn’t seen those. I’ll go there now. Thanks for the heads-up, Ben.
Looks good. Would it be possible to have an option to factor in a time variable that will trigger removal of a badge…thinking in terms of a “Active Member” badge for example, it is removed when Member hasn’t been active in more than X time. wouldn’t do this for all badges but thinking more for a settting the option on a set of badges that carry a diminishing value after you earn it.
Hi Nahum, thanks for writing.
I hadn’t thought of that. It won’t make the first release, but it might after that. I’ll have to think through how it’d work.
When is this AWESOME plugin coming out! I cant wait!
Is there support for upgrade from v1.0 or import already finished achievements?
You’ll be able to hit a button and it will check if anyone has already met the criteria for an achievement, and grant it if appropriate. I can’t promise this make the first release. Timeline/eta coming soon
Hi Paul, if U need help in localization, I can translate it to spanish. Lemme know.
Hi JoSe,
Thanks! I’ll be in contact in a few weeks
Just a quick heads-up that I’m moving this blog to the latest version of WordPress and am changing the theme at the same time, so I apologise for any downtime or inconvenience you may find over the next few days.
I have had a few questions recently about what exactly will be in the next release of my Achievements plugin for BuddyPress, so thought I’d post the list here.
Are there any features you’d like to see in sequential releases?
OH EM GEEZ I’m really excited for this plugin. Custom achievements?! You’ve made my wildest dreams come true (well… almost 
Any timeline you can share with us, Paul?
When will you be releasing 2.0?
This is very exciting! One feature that I know some people have been asking about is an avatar overlay that would put a tiny little badge on the corner of their avatar (kind of like the BuddyPress twitter ribbon) …would this be difficult? Also, since users would be racking up lots of achievements, would it be possible to show on the user’s page the achievement avatars of the last 5 that they’ve earned right under their BP avatar? Just another idea. When is the next version coming? Sometime this month maybe?
No, not too hard re: avatar overlay 
http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/612. I’m going to ensure I get the core of the plugin out in the next release, and extra bits will follow in sequential release; once I get 2.0 out, I’ll probably do a poll and ask for community feedback on things that people want to see.
Hi all, thanks for writing.
Might be a beta out this month. I’m mentally targeting this for BuddyPress 1.3, which AFAIK will be in little over a month’s time. Trying to fit this in between Real Life, Work (x2) and contributing to BuddyPress, but Achievements definitely has full focus now.
Very cool. I will check out that orange hats plugin and find out how you do it Thanks for the update!
This sound exactly like what I Googled for. BuddyPress badge plugin ala Foursquare. 
Looking forward to it.
Does your plugin use a table to track achievements/badges? I’m curious if I could trigger the adding/removal of badges when certain custom database events occur after I run a cron job. So instead of manually selecting a “competition winner”, for example, it would be set via a query. Do you think that would be possible?
Hi balebond
Yes it does/will use a table. Yes you could add records via a cron job; the only problem I immediately see is that people won’t get the notification email/link in the “buddybar” alerting them that they have an Achievement. To solve, you’ll just have to add an entry into the BuddyPress activity database tables. Maybe once Achievements is out, we can have a look at figuring out how to do this?
Sounds like a plan. Having earned badges listed in the activity stream would actually be sufficient for my needs in most cases. But having the choice to have those trigger the emails would be cool too.
I see that you did a search for all the BP actions for this plugin. Will what you’re building also grab the actions that are added by plugin authors so that you users can provide Achievements based on the plugin’s actions? Or I guess you could let plugin authors hook into something in Achievements so they can define what’s worth having listed in your list of actions.
Not all BP actions are suitable for Achievements. I will be going through the major BuddyPress actions and implementing those if possible. Will try to let other plugins register their own Achievements but I’m not sure if that will get into the 2.0 release.
my blogs use the same account list, meaning if you sign up for one, you sign up for all of them. can you please make some way for me to share the points through all the different blogs?
Hi Chris, thanks for writing.
I certainly will try to do handle this. Assume you’re using the network features in WordPress 3 (aka WPMU). Do you know if your wp_usermeta table is shared between all sites?
Can the points be integrated towards the CubePoints plugin?
I have not considered any integration with CubePoints, as the softwares compete with each other in some key areas. What exactly do you have in mind? A user’s points total, or? Thanks for the idea.
Would be cool to carry your badges Sitewide in to an individual blog by way of a widget. Example, My Badges Widget with thumb versions of the badges in a grid with see more link to go “new area on profile” (I’m opting for this type of display instead of traditional since I’m out of room in the profile nav for any more components – so moving forward it would be great for new components to start out with a At-a-Glance widget for the profile page sidebar with “View All” link that will open the component page instead of the nav link)
Cool idea! I’ll add it to the todo list. Thanks for writing.
Thanks for the consideration. Had another idea but didn’t want to get ahead of even the first release, but then I saw Membership levels come thru from wpmudev (http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership) and was thinking that would compliment achievements very well, that by acheivement you could unlock access to subblogs or any special content as defined by the membership level plugin. maybe something to keep in mind as well.
Hi,
this sounds like THE plugin i’m looking for for about one year. ….sadly it’s for BuddyPress, and i’m using WP.
Is there a way to use it anyway ? I guess not. Do you know if the same kind of stuff exists for WP ?
thanks for this great job, anyway !
CubePoints has a slightly different focus, but it works with WordPress. Check it out
Thanks for your answer. I know Cube point but it’s not made in the same way. I want just something for people commenting my blog : Cubepoints is just working for registered users. Sad for me.
regards, and sorry for my frenchy english
Paul Gibbs, 
User, 
Duck 10:02 pm on May 22, 2010 Permalink |
Ahhhh…that explains it. Custom welcome not working after I installed 1.2.4.
Rats! And i was taking the site live this weekend.
Paul Gibbs 11:28 pm on May 22, 2010 Permalink |
Will try to get it tomorrow, but can’t promise; lots of client work to do.
Duck 4:05 am on May 23, 2010 Permalink
Appreciate it.
Paul Gibbs 7:04 pm on May 23, 2010 Permalink |
Duck
I’ve just checked it out, tested it on a clean WP 3.0 + BP 1.2.4 install, and both email and the welcome messages/groups etc work fine with this release.
Can you give me some details of your problem, perhaps? paul at byotos.com. Thanks.
User 10:12 pm on October 4, 2010 Permalink
No its not working. As you were expecting it is giving some error related to admin.js. Firstly I thought it might be some internet explorer problem but firefox is also not giving any different result.
Custom email option is not working. Please help!
Paul Gibbs 10:44 pm on October 4, 2010 Permalink
Have a look at http://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/forum/topic/couple-of-issues-with-2-1/
zlamczyk 11:01 pm on June 6, 2010 Permalink |
Welcome Pack works fine on my WPMU 2.9.2 + BP 1.2.4 install. YES!
I do, however, have another request. Please refer to the following forum posts. I could really use your help. I’m aiming for admins to moderate user registration on my “closed” website.
BuddyPress
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/moderate-signup-restrict-registration/
WPMU
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/18235
WP Plugins and Hacks
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/407338?replies=1
WP
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/406195