Ryan Imel

<p>Achievements for BuddyPress is fantastic if you want to integrate badges into a BuddyPress-driven social environment. CubePoints works if you want to award points to your users that are redeemable for things. This plugin focuses on a different kind of situation: awarding badges manually by admin approval, and automatically when specific events are triggered — and to do so as simply as possible.</p>
<p>Simple Badges provides two ways to award badges:</p>
<ol>
<li>manually by an admin granting the badge to a user, and</li>
<li>automatically based on a single condition a user meets.</li>
</ol>
<p><em>Note:</em> Only the manual badges are functional in this alpha release. Automatic badges are coming in the first public release.</p>
<p>Badges can be managed under Tools > Badges, the same way you add and edit posts and pages. Set badge icons by assigning a featured image, and control whether a badge is hidden to users by default or whether the badge is manually or automatically awarded.</p>
<p>Only a handful of automatic badge conditions will be available with the first public release, though the goal is to have an extensible list that any plugin can support and add conditions for. More on this, along with documentation for it, real soon!</p>
<h4>Kudos</h4>
<p>Thanks to Andrew Norcross and his (Quick Vote)[https://github.com/norcross/quick-vote] plugin for inspiring me to dive in and improve my plugin coding standards a bit.</p>


Simple Badges

Create and award badges to your users manually, or based on what they accomplish.

Poletto 1976

<p><strong>CartTrigger – BAG</strong> (Brand · Awards · Gallery) extends the WooCommerce native brand taxonomy with three powerful modules:</p>
<h4>Custom Fields</h4>
<p>Attach unlimited key–value pairs to any brand. Output them anywhere via shortcode or PHP helper function. CSS classes are fully customisable, including Tailwind arbitrary-value classes (e.g. <code>text-[11px]</code>).</p>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<p>Manage a list of awards and recognitions for each brand — with optional logo, award name, event name, and year. Display them as a styled list using the <code>[ctbag_awards]</code> shortcode.</p>
<h4>Gallery</h4>
<p>Upload a curated image gallery per brand. Display it as a responsive grid with the <code>[ctbag_gallery]</code> shortcode. Optional native WooCommerce lightbox (PhotoSwipe) via <code>lightbox="1"</code>.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p><strong><code>[ctbag_custom_fields]</code></strong><br />
Outputs brand custom fields as a <code><dl></code> list.</p>
<pre><code>[ctbag_custom_fields brand="slug" wrapper_class="..." dt_class="..." dd_class="..."]
</code></pre>
<p><strong><code>[ctbag_awards]</code></strong><br />
Outputs brand awards as a styled card list.</p>
<pre><code>[ctbag_awards brand="slug" title="Awards" wrapper_class="..." card_class="..."]
</code></pre>
<p><strong><code>[ctbag_gallery]</code></strong><br />
Outputs brand gallery as a responsive image grid.</p>
<pre><code>[ctbag_gallery brand="slug" title="Gallery" wrapper_class="..." lightbox="1"]
</code></pre>
<h4>PHP Helper Functions</h4>
<p>All shortcodes are also available as direct PHP functions that bypass WordPress’ shortcode parser — useful when Tailwind arbitrary-value classes (e.g. <code>text-[11px]</code>) would otherwise be mangled:</p>
<pre><code>echo ctbag_custom_fields(['wrapper_class' => 'grid grid-cols-2 gap-4']);
echo ctbag_awards(['title' => __('Awards', 'your-textdomain')]);
echo ctbag_gallery(['title' => __('Gallery', 'your-textdomain'), 'lightbox' => '1']);
</code></pre>
<h4>Professional Admin UI</h4>
<p>All brand meta fields are presented in a clean, card-based admin interface grouped by module (HTML Description, Custom Fields, Awards, Gallery), with collapsible shortcode reference built in. Custom fields and awards support drag & drop reordering. Gallery images can be removed individually (× button on hover) and reordered by dragging.</p>


CartTrigger – BAG

Enhance WooCommerce brands with custom fields, awards badges, and lifestyle galleries with native lightbox support.

Simple Badges vs CartTrigger – BAG