Not Roles, not types, but something else?

  • Hi Friends

    sorry about the title or any confusion, its hard to sum up in a sentence ??

    I’m hoping someone with a bit more experience with WP structure, and available plugins, might be able to point me in the right direction.

    I need to be able to add various ‘awards’ to site members, that are not really connected to their online behaviours. Things like “SEO Champ” or “Fund Raiser” and things like that. I want to add badges to user profiles to reward people for the various bits they do.

    I’m probably going to have something built, and I am putting together a spec. But before I go running down the wrong road – is there a much easier way to do this with the existing system or plugins?

    I have had a good look through all available badges, roles, awards etc type plugins. Most are tied quite tightly to the system core and set behaviours.

    If anyone has any good pointers or advice for this feature I would appreciate your input. If not I will go ahead and get something built.

    Thanks for your help ??

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  • That can be achieve by some custom development, which allows you to set badges and titles from backend and can show on front end on their profile pages. I believe you need to hire developer to achieve that.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    When writing a spec, unless you have a clear understanding of what you want and exactly how it would be implemented within the WP schema, you should focus solely on performance metrics. Let the dev figure out how to best implement it. Include in your spec that they need to explain in their proposal precisely how they would implement this. That way you or someone knowledgeable can evaluate if they know what they are talking about.

    I would personally add settings to the user profile that users can view but not modify. The settings can be in the form of a multi-select dropdown or a set of check box fields. Then find a hook to whatever outputs user data on an author’s archive page (or anywhere else appropriate) and add in the extra data displayed in some pleasing manner. The selections to display are saved as an array in user meta under a single meta key.

    If you want to be able to manage the output with shortcodes and/or widgets as well as standard output, be sure to include them in your spec.

    Thread Starter manm0untain

    (@manm0untain)

    Hi thanks for your input that’s great.

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