I’m happy to announce the newest release of my Achievements for BuddyPress plugin. Available immediately, Achievements gives your BuddyPress community fresh impetus by promoting and rewarding social interaction with challenges, badges and points.
Be sure to visit its own website at achievementsapp.com. I’ve included an introductory video into the below post, so you can learn about the plugin and see it in action.
As if the release of BuddyPress 1.2.6 wasn’t exciting enough by itself, John James Jacoby has today announced that Boone B. Gorges and I have joined the BuddyPress core team; this basically means we get the keys to the car! I am extremely thankful to Andy Peatling and John for this honour, and I am excited beyond words to be working with them on the next versions of BuddyPress.
I consider this to be one of my highest personal achievements this year, in addition to presenting at WordCamp Ireland and WordCamp UK. If any of you are attending WordCamp New York this week, I’d love to say hi. I am also attending WordCamp Netherlands in November.
This brings the BuddyPress core team up to five people — Andy, John, Marshall, Boone and I — and puts the project into fifth gear. I’m humbled, honoured and hugely happy. Let’s rock!
EDIT: I can’t make WC NL. Have a great time those attending!
Congratulations, Paul! It’s excellent to see BuddyPress in such capable hands, and it was wonderful to meet you this weekend at #wcnyc. Keep up the great work!
Congratulations! I must admit that I’m not that into BuddyPress yet, but I need to make some time to jump into it. Let’s talk about it at WordCamp Netherlands! 
Congratulations! Really looking forward to 1.2.6!
Congrats on joining the BuddyPress core team, Paul!
Congratulations Paul
Time to dip into buddy press me thinks
Looking forward to the good things ahead
Thank you everyone
You are THE man Paul.. well done mate!
Glad you’re on the team. Well done and well-deserved.
Congratulations Paul.
You really deserve it.
Thanks!
I realize this is late, but is very well deserved and will be a boon (excuse the pun) to the BP community. I can’t wait to see the progress that’s made with the extra core developers.
The first version of Achievements is almost ready for release. However, BuddyPress 1.2.6, which Achievements requires, isn’t. I will not be releasing Achievements until BuddyPress 1.2.6 has been.
Consider this a private beta period. If you want your hands on Achievements now, and know how to use SVN and how to obtain the BuddyPress 1.2 branch (this will become the 1.2.6 release), leave a reply here and I’ll send you the details.
I apologise for any inconvenience this delay will cause your projects, but I’ll be using this extra time to continue improving Achievements.
Yes please!!
Email en route!
Great, keep up the good work!
Yes, por favor! =)
Email sent!
Yes, please! btw Great work!
I’ve sent you an email, thanks
Please.
James — I think I’ve sent the details to you previously; those same details still apply. Let me know if you never got it previously (a few weeks ago), and I’ll re-send. Cheers.
D’oh. I did get it but missed it in my inbox. Thanks. Looking forward to trying it out.
Yes please!
Hi Linus
I’ve just emailed you the details, thanks.
I would love to try this out. Looks like exactly what I need. Great work!
Sounds great! May I try it out?!
I’ve sent an email to you
Sure why not, send me a copy.
Hi – I think you were already on my mailing list. If you haven’t received my previous emails, let me know and I’ll resend. Thanks.
I checked my email. There wasn’t any previous email.
I’ve just sent the details to the email address which you left on your comment.
Thanks received it.
Why is it you are unable to create new achievements in Version 1.23, but you are able to create additional categories? This seems to be a bug- maybe it didn’t install correctly on my wordpress install? Doesn’t look like there’s a support forum for this plugin version that’s active to ask others if they’ve run into the same problem, which is why I’m posting here.
As for Achievements 2.0 – can one create their own achievements? Example: I have a founder’s club for the first 1,000 users on my site, along with other special achievements and awards related to polls and quizzes. I would also like to create custom badges/award achievements for special posts/forum topics that are really outstanding. There should be a way for the website owner to add custom achievements. Thank you.
oh, never mind. I see it’s going to happen in 2.0.
I would very much love to try this, thank you.
Please send me details when you can!
I’d love to try it.
Just a feature request. Can we have external triggers? I plan to use this in my wordpress flash arcade. I would like to trigger an achievement from the flash game. I can run any php, database code through it. So any ways to have custom triggers for achievements?
All you need to do would be to build a function in WordPress that intercepts an appropriate AJAX request generated by your external app, and it’d work. Email me if you need a pointer how to do this.
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nahum 9:44 pm on October 21, 2010 Permalink |
Nice job, Paul. This is the best.
Arthur Freitas 5:15 am on October 23, 2010 Permalink |
This is great, Paul!
Congratulations.
Hachi 12:36 pm on October 23, 2010 Permalink |
Spanish translation will be done soon