Weekly/Monthly/Yearly/Overall Leaderboards

Okay, I understand. Thank you, Gabriel!

A quick question: now that it’s a new month, I need to reset the leaderboard for this month (not deleting the points earned in July – just showing points earned in August instead). How do I do this?

Do I check Reset Leaderboard in the widget area? Or will the widget automatically show points earned in August?

Thank you very much!

That’s the same thing we’ll want to do. We’ll want to be able to have monthly leaderboards for a specific time period. For example, July 1 to July 31, and then have a new leaderboard for August 1 to August 30 but still retaining the leaderboard for July and the overall leaderboard.

This will make awarding prizes for monthly point winners tracked by a specific period of time much easier.

The leaderboard should switch over on a new month since the database query will only request the log entries from the start of this month and to now. If this does not happen, the Reset Leaderboard is the way to go. It will not delete anything but instead force the widget to do a new db query.

Yes, I understand. I used Reset Leaderboard and that worked very well. The leaderboard did reset automatically later that day as well. Thank you very much for your help!

When the leaderboard resets, does it still keep the records of the previous month’s results? For example, if we run a contest and the winner has the most points at the end of the month but we don’t check until after it resets, will we be able to see the previous month’s leaderboard or will that disappear?

Unless you have deleted log entries for last month the results should be the same.

The reset function basically deletes the transient which is used to save the results to prevent a new SQL query to run on each and every page load. Depending on your log size this could slow your site down considerably so the results (which is for last month / week and should not change) are saved until the end of the month / week at which point WordPress deletes it forcing us to make a new SQL query.

This is something I really need to implement right now. I pasted the code you provided for a monthly leaderboard into my theme’s functions.php file, but the widget isn’t showing up for me. Would it be possible to get some help?

MyCred has been awesome – this is the only thing that has given me trouble so far.

@datguyian – Try removing lines 10 and 169 and then replace the following:

register_widget( 'myCRED_Widget_This_Weeks_Leaderboard' );

with:

if ( function_exists( 'mycred' ) )
	register_widget( 'myCRED_Widget_This_Weeks_Leaderboard' );

How do I add the ranking number (%ranking%) to this?

Thanks