First up I see that while the myCred points are displayed in the topic view user section (i.e., beside a post) on a mobile display they are actually missing from the Reboot Desktop topic view template and this will be rectified in our next update. If you wanted to add that, however, the default code would be:

if (function_exists('sp_PostIndexMyCred')) sp_PostIndexMyCred('tagClass=spPostUserMyCred spCenter', __sp('MyCred '), __sp('MyCred'));

and the recommended location would be just after the equivalent template tag to display CubePoints – the display function sp_PostIndexCubePoints().

If you want to display MyCred points elsewhere then I believe the MyCred WP plugin does come with some options but we also supply a simple tag that can be used elsewhere in the forum pages – which is a function named sp_MyCred() 0 and full details on it’s use is in our codex at – https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/plugins/our-plugins/available-plugins/mycred-integration/

Not sure why you would be contemplating trying to use a user name to work with a user. The correct way is to use their user ID which will be common on any table that holds user data including, if I recall correctly, the myCred data.

If you wanted to add that, however, the default code would be:

Awesome. Worked like a charm.

Not sure why you would be contemplating trying to use a user name to work with a user. The correct way is to use their user ID which will be common on any table that holds user data including, if I recall correctly, the myCred data.

Yea, I saw that earlier when digging around with MyCred. It does show ID:# for each user.

However, even if we use that (and we really should since it’s a static value), we still have to figure out how to associate the MyCred ID with a Minecraft UUID in a secure and simple manner.

I was thinking of perhaps having a randomized alphanumeric secret key generated somewhere on the user’s SP profile, which they can then use to sync their Minecraft UUID to, so that our Minecraft plugin (this isn’t a SP or WP plugin, it’s completely different) knows whose WP profile to pull points from.

This is probably outside the scope of SP, but since SP is acting as a user’s main profile area, I figured I would throw this out there to see if there’s any decent solutions that would be easy to use by our players and users.

Afraid I am not a gamer but is there a reason not to collect your users game ID in the profile?

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Yellow Swordfish said
Afraid I am not a gamer but is there a reason not to collect your users game ID in the profile?

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It’s funny how you can come up with a solution to something just by talking it out and putting ideas on ‘paper’

Initially, my concern was that, while yes, we could just let our users input their Minecraft username in a custom field and collect that, but, that would leave it open to anyone putting in someone else’s username and syncing their profile to someone else’s Minecraft user. 

But then I realized that we COULD do that, and by performing a two-way check, it would be secure.

Here’s the solution:

Step 1: A user logs into the forums. They visit their profile and inputs their Minecraft username into a custom field. (Is there a way to retrieve information from a custom field remotely?)

Step 2: The user logs into our Minecraft server using the account which holds the username that they placed into that custom field. 

Step 3: The user types a command in the in-game chat. The command must include their forum/website username. For example: /sync Tim_Burton

At this point, our Minecraft plugin does a few things. First of all, it takes note of the UUID that the command was ran from. It also takes note of the Minecraft username that is currently associated with that UUID.

Then, it checks the custom field attached to the username that was typed in the command. If the username in the custom field matches the username attached to the UUID that ran the command, then it syncs that UUID to the associated myCred ID.

This of course would depend on a few things, like actually being able to retrieve the myCred ID remotely, as well as being able to retrieve SP custom field info remotely. If so, then this should work pretty well, will be secure, and will be easy to use by our members.

You are in control of your WordPress site database – it’s name, host, username and password. So no reason you can not write external code to access that,