How to add events to Achievements

I have a custom action ‘bm_new_animation‘ and I want to add a new event with the same name.

Thanks for any help you can give

In case you’re interested this is for https://brushninja.com

Hi,

I think I know what the root cause is, so let’s try that first. I’ll explain in detail the problem if the fix works. This is written in the context of the plugin not working on the production server.

The $this->actions should be automatically added. This also assume the custom events do not appear in the “choose actions” dropdown box on the Add New Achievement screen.

1) Assuming you aren’t running this in multisite with the plugin activated network-wide, go into the wp_options database table and find an record with option_name = “_dpa_extension_versions”

2) The option_value is a serialised array. It’s probably easiest to write a test script somewhere that de-serialises this string. It contains an array; one of the array keys will be the name of your extension – remove that particular item from the array, then re-serialise and overwrite the option value.

3) Then visit a page in your site’s wp-admin

4) And then go and see if the event types appear on the create achievement screen.

That did it – thanks! ??

Looks like the animate key isn’t in the _dpa_extension_versions record anymore though. I guess that means it’s pulling it through the filter?

I have a new question that is related to this I guess.

In dev I deleted the event that I had added manually since it’s now in the code – but it doesn’t show. Some new events/ actions I added are displaying fine.

I wondered if changing the version number would allow the actions to be updated but that didn’t seem to change anything.

For reference I stripped out a bunch of properties that didn’t seem to make any difference (since this is all private) and I am now left with the following (I added some new actions too).

/**
	 * Extension to add Brush Ninja support to Achievements
	 *
	 * @since Achievements (3.0)
	 */
	class DPA_Animate_Extension extends DPA_Extension {

		public function __construct() {
			$this->actions = array(
				'bm_new_animation'	=> __( 'Submit a new Animation', 'dpa' ),
				'bm_subscribe'		=> __( 'Subscribe to the site', 'dpa' ),
				'bm_scumbag'		=> __( 'An animation has been deleted', 'dpa' ),
				'bm_police'			=> __( 'Reported a bad animation', 'dpa' ),
			);

			$this->id = 'Animate';
			$this->name = __( 'Animate', 'dpa' );
			$this->version = 1.1;
		}

	}

> Looks like the animate key isn’t in the _dpa_extension_versions record anymore though. I guess that means it’s pulling it through the filter?

Why guess? Look at the Achievements code and see what’s happening. Achievements should see your extension as ‘new’ and re-add the item. See the dpa_maybe_update_extensions() function.