Learndash Integration: Badges not showing up in the Widget

For the sake of helping debug, the widget you’re using is the Earned User Achievements widget from the core BadgeOS plugin, correct?

In what way were you thinking about notifying? Some sort of visual popup? Sent email?

The Auto-Messages addon wasn’t meant to be used after every single achievement earned, but more milestone moments like “50 badges” or perhaps in your case, 15 courses. Bigger moments like that.

Hello Michael,

Thanks for your help!

That’s correct. The Earned User Achievements sidebar widget. Only two of my eight earned badges are showing up. ??

With regards to badge notification, I am wondering what my options are. I understand that I can either:

1) have a user click on a link I’ve made, which will direct them to the page displaying their newly earned badge

OR,

2) purchase the Auto-messages add-on and have badge notifications pop up when lessons/courses have been completed.

Would that be right?

Gracias.

What settings are you using for the widget? Are you limiting to only certain types of achievements?

We do natively display congrats messages on the achievement pages themselves, if a user who has earned it, navigates there. We don’t natively offer some sort of popup after a user achieves any sort of achievement. We do have the Auto Messages extension but it is $55 at https://badgeos.org/downloads/auto-messages/ . However, like I said, it wasn’t originally created for every single achievement earned, but more milestone.

Option 1 sounds more readily viable, at this point. If your lessons/courses are more than just individual achievements, then it sounds like a viable option as well, like if each lesson/course is a group of achievements.

Thanks Michael.

My current widget settings:

number to display = 10
display user’s total points= yes (the points aren’t right either ?? )
display only the following achievement type= badges (I only have ‘badges’ as an achievement type.

The badges were added after the learndash courses and only the ‘course’ badge (not any of the 5 lesson badges) would show for my admin account after I completed all the lessons etc.

I made a ‘testing’ account and took the test dummy through 6 lessons (all with associated badges) and 1 course. In the end, the widget only displayed the last lesson badge, and the overall course badge, but not the other 5 lesson badges.

mystery mystery!

Thanks Michael.

My current widget settings:

number to display = 10
display user’s total points= yes (the points aren’t right either ?? )
display only the following achievement type= badges (I only have ‘badges’ as an achievement type.

The badges were added after the learndash courses and only the ‘course’ badge (not any of the 5 lesson badges) would show for my admin account after I completed all the lessons etc.

I made a ‘testing’ account and took the test dummy through 6 lessons (all with associated badges) and 1 course. In the end, the widget only displayed the last lesson badge, and the overall course badge, but not the other 5 lesson badges.

mystery mystery!

Thanks Michael.

My current widget settings:

number to display = 10
display user’s total points= yes (the points aren’t right either ?? )
display only the following achievement type= badges (I only have ‘badges’ as an achievement type.

The badges were added after the learndash courses and only the ‘course’ badge (not any of the 5 lesson badges) would show for my admin account after I completed all the lessons etc.

I made a ‘testing’ account and took the test dummy through 6 lessons (all with associated badges) and 1 course. In the end, the widget only displayed the last lesson badge, and the overall course badge, but not the other 5 lesson badges.

mystery mystery!

Hmm, correct me if I’m wrong, but based on the reply above, it sounds like the badges you created within your WP install are showing, but all provided by learndash are not?

Michael,

All the badges are for learndash.

One course, six lessons. Only the course badge is showing (none of the lessons). (That’s with my admin account)

If I sign in as a test user and progress through the lessons and course, only the course badge, and a single lesson badge display.

Here’s a link to a completed lesson page. You can see in the widget only a single badge is displayed, where this user in particular should have been awarded 6 total badges.

https://narrativepracticesonline.com/topic/fkc-lesson-1-congratulations/

I’ve asked the original dev of the Learndash integration for some help debugging this, as I’m not well versed with Learndash myself. I’m very much a front lines guy. ??

Sweet, thanks so much Michael.

One clue:

When I view the badges, the steps aren’t being crossed out. Even though I have completed the lesson.

The badge associated with the lesson doesn’t seem to register that I have completed the lesson, even though the progress bar, and your new lesson sidebar widget do.

Also, it doesn’t say ‘congratulations’ with the fancy green banner like it does for the completed course.

E.g. https://narrativepracticesonline.com/badges/foundations-and-key-concepts-4/ethical-considerations-guiding-a-narrative-approach/

This is just isolated to the widget, correct? Or are these not showing up in the user profile as well? We’re trying to trace the possible source of the issue right now.

Heya,

They all come up when prompted by this shortcode, [badgeos_achievements_list], if that’s what you mean?

Yes, that’s an example of what I meant, thanks. Starting to believe it’s something going on in the widget code.

Cool,

Let me know how your investigations go and if you need anything else from me which will help you figure it out.

I really hope we can get this working ??

Hey guys,

Any word on this? I have almost ten courses ready to upload onto my site, and it would be amazing if I could have the badges widget working!

How’s the spy work going?

Thanks,

Sarah.