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Using Achievements plugin to create more posts, get members to a form and send them a gift…

RP Robert Provencher
Robert Provencher
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Dec 27, 2015 · 10:20 am · Edited

I have this idea.

I want to incentivize my members to post more. (we just moved over from an old forum software to simple-press….getting loads of flak….:)….)

I was thinking, can I not use the Achievements plugin?

1-Set it up to activate or give them access to a form after X amount of posts.

2-That form will simply be a fill-in-the address sort of thing, so I can then mail them a free gift…(small booklet I wrote and some swag…)

Make sense?

How about this twist….

the Achievements will only count posts that get “Thanks” (you know, the Thank member plugin I believe) from other members or moderators….

meaning, only quality posts with proof and approval from other members (via Thanks button) will count….

make sense?

thanks

 

Rob

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Dec 27, 2015 · 5:37 pm

I guess the first thing to ask is does the WP Achievements plugin cater for your 1 and 2 items?

RP Robert Provencher
Robert Provencher
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Member since Nov 2012
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Dec 28, 2015 · 10:38 am

Yellow Swordfish said
I guess the first thing to ask is does the WP Achievements plugin cater for your 1 and 2 items?

Not to sound like a four year old, which is about where Im at with this, the two items in question, is exactly what I’m asking….

can I do this?

I’ve not used that plugin yet. Is this a typical strategy for using it?

sorry about the confusion….R

YS Yellow Swordfish
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Dec 28, 2015 · 11:03 am

Ah – but I do not know I am afraid. Don’t forget the WP Achievements plugin is not one of ours. It is just a plugin that we have supported with an extension. The ‘thanks’ part is not in our extension but could, I would think, probably be added by us if needed. It is not a great plugin to extend to be honest

I have remembered, however, that I do recall someone posting on the forum suggesting that the achievements plugin had been abandoned. Perhaps it would be worth your while looking at the myCred plugin instead (also a WP plugin) to see of that does your 1 and 2. It already has some support in out extension for our thanks plugin.