I guess I’m on my own with this then. Would you guys suggest me concentrating my efforts on MyCred or My Achievements? I can hire a freelancer to do this for me.

So, long topic…   and wandering a bit…  what do you want to do?  modify one of our plugins (achievements, my cred or cubepoints)? 

if so, we might be able to work up a custom quote if you like… 

Andy actually wrote all three, but I believe he favors MyCred as being the most customizable…

Steve is correct. MyCred is much easier to work with and build on. It has better documentation and a much better and easier API to work with. And to be brutally honest, the guy who wrote the Achievements plugin made it clear he has no time or wish to support Simple:Press as he thinks bbPress is far superior. And the guy who wrote myCred has been extremely helpful!

I realise they work differently and offer completely different approaches by for me myCred wins hands down.

If you are familiar with my site, we have players that video themselves and share it with others. We also have projects, and so called “Parties”. With the projects, they send me the videos and I put them all together for a virtual international group youtube performance. With the parties, a person will choose a piece or a genre and post their performance of that piece and others will post theirs on the same thread.

We want to offer badges that will display on their profiles that can only be earned. Gives a type of motivation for the users to get more involved, practice more, have something to look forward too ….etc.
I call them badges but you guys might call them something else. Some kind of cool graphic reward, metal, trophy, gamify….

All of the WordPress plugins of this type that I am personally familiar with (and I am sure there are others I am not) tend to reply on a specific event to trigger the award. It sounds very much from your description, that you would be making these awards manually on merit and on events that can not be automatically listened for by the code.

Would that be a fair assumption? If it is then it probably doesn’t really matter what plugin you use. If it caters for ‘badges’ and has an API we can call then doing a little custom work to enable things to show up on the profile and in, perhaps, forum posts, would not be that much of a problem.

Cool. You guys can choose which plugin. I’m not that excited over the point system from MyCred but I can disable that. I’ll await your proposal. I’m sure I can find volunteers on my site to make the badges….

You can PM me to discuss the cost.

But I do not know what other plugins might work for you. I have no knowledge of them…?

Any suggestions anyone?

Either of the two will be fine.

Well – as said – myCred it much simpler and easier to work with. Does it have a ‘badges’ setup and do what you want/

MyCred has badges but I don’t think it does what I want. If so, I haven’t been able to figure it out.

I tried to assign a test badge that I added (Manual Adjustment by Admin) but I get that no user has yet earned this badge.

Perhaps you would be best off looking into the available options in the WP plugin repository,

Obviously I have and this is why I said above that I don’t believe that badges are supported for SP. I usually only ask for help after doing my best to figure things out for myself.

Seems like the “Badges” only work with BuddyPress and bbPress.

Below, instructions from the plugin: (https://mycred.me/add-ons/badges/) See no. 2

Setup

1. Enable the “Badges” add-on on the “Add-ons” sub-menu page in the “myCRED” menu.
2. Visit the “Settings” sub-menu page and click on “Badges” to view the default settings. Note that if you do not have BuddyPress AND bbPress enabled, no settings will be available.
3. Select if you want badges to be shown in a users Buddypress or bbPress profile.
4. Save.

In post #72 I was meaning other third party plugin options.

If the WP Cred plugin explicitly only allows these to be created if you are using bbPress or BuddyPress then there is probably very little we can do about it… although the author could be asked – perhaps – to extend this to SP as well.

I am not trying to be difficult but I can not possibly have knowledge of all of the thousands of WP plugins available and when it comes to the sort of plugin you are looking for I have absolutely none as I have never needed to look for one. But – as we said – if it does what you need and we can tap into the APi of the plugin then we should be able to expose things within the SP boundary for you fairly easily.

How hard would it be for you guys to develop a plugin that could add badges/awards/trophies/icons to the users profile. My needs are simple. It could show up anywhere as far as I’m concerned.

I didn’t feel that you were being difficult. I always appreciate all you guys do for us. I figured that developers at BuddyPress AND bbPress worked on the badges. I didn’t realize it would need to happen at the mycred back end.

Is there another way to do this? Perhaps additional signatures like your yellow swordfish but controlled strictly by the administrator?