Displaying Points and Badges Beyond The Sidebar

Getting the user’s points is really straightforward, just need to pass in the user ID to the following function:

badgeos_get_users_points( $user_id );

It returns the value if I recall right, so you’d need to echo, but also finding a way to get the displayed user’s ID will depend on the platform you’re showing in. In this case, BuddyPress, so bp_displayed_user_id()

Would be easy enough to turn that into a shortcode, but finding a way to get the displayed user’s ID via shortcode would be notably harder to accomplish.

Put together:

echo badgeos_get_user_points( bp_displayed_user_id() );

Where you provide that would depend on the hooks available in the area you want.

How do I make these shortcodes then? I apologize, I have no idea where to place this. Are there an plugins that allow shortcodes or html fields to be placed around the user profile?

Thanks,

Justin

At least based on my original suggestion of a hook from around the profile area, making it a shortcode would be extra, needless work. You would be able to use the code above as is to get it onto the profile page at that point.

I don’t know of any 3rd party plugins that help customize BuddyPress profile areas, to be honest. I’m one who’d much more likely dive into the BuddyPress template files and work out how to best handle that way. Wish I could be better help there.

Not a chance there’s a plugin for this? I don’t know what I”m doing with the files.

None I know of that do this all out of the box with a few clicks. It’s all circumstantial with where you want to have things displayed and everything as well as your active theme/layout. Plenty of variables that need considered.

Could one of these fields be the points / achievement field and one tab be the Leaderboard field? https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/#add-new-xprofile-field

Not sure if that is possible at all. The BuddyPress XProfile fields, I do believe, use their own tables and not the wp_usermeta table. No idea offhand if you can hotwire those functions to set the source that it fetches its data from.

For the Leaderboard part, do you mean a tab in the BuddyPress user profile area on the frontend showing one of the leaderboards? This one I wager can be done, just a matter of creating the custom tab and echoing the leaderboard shortcode.

Both would take custom development work to do.

Sorry for the delay. Yes for leaderboards. Front end tab somewhere visible in the community or main buddypress links.

I managed to figure out close to what I want. I’ve had two custom short codes made. One for points and one for badges. However, I cannot get the badges code to render. I just get that little loading wheel.

If you want to check it out, I can give you a login. It’s right on the member’s home page.

P.S. Is there a direct link for the general BP profile link? For placing in the nav menu? It always creates one based on the logged in user.

The spinning wheel sounds like a javascript conflict somewhere. Also the [badgeos_achievements_list] shortcode only works for one per page, due to the ajax involved.

I’d have to comb BuddyPress’ api functions for any sort of link fetching function.

Only one short code per page?

Correct, due to how the ajax is done at the moment, multiple shortcodes result in js errors for subsequent and only the first one working.

This may help, and conveniently timed

https://webdevstudios.com/2016/03/17/buddypress-custom-pages/

That is really conveniently timed. How do I add the code? Lol

Oh, there’s a plugin at the bottom. Now that’s my kind of programming. ??