Ryan Imel

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.
Simple Badges provides two ways to award badges:
<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>
Note: Only the manual badges are functional in this alpha release. Automatic badges are coming in the first public release.
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.
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!
<h4>Kudos</h4>
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.

Simple Badges

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

J.D. Grimes

<h4>Features</h4>
This plugin lets you create one or multiple types of points which you can use to reward your users when certain events occur on your site. It also includes a Ranks component, which lets you create ranks for your users based on how many points they have.
You can currently award points to users for:
<ul>
<li>Registration</li>
<li>Posts – You can be selective in which post types get awarded points, and award different amounts for different types. Points will automatically be removed when a post is removed.</li>
<li>Comments – You can award points to a user when they leave a comment, and also to post authors when they receive a comment. As with posts, you can award different amounts for comments on different post types, and points will automatically be removed if you delete a user’s comment or mark it as spam.</li>
<li>Visiting your site – You can award points to a user when they visit your site at least once in a time period; once per day, for example.</li>
</ul>
You can also conditionally award points based on a post’s tags, a comment’s text, a user’s role, and more!
All points transactions are logged and can be reviewed by administrators from the WordPoints » Points Logs admin screen. The logs can be displayed on the front end of your site using the <a href="https://wordpoints.org/user-guide/shortcodes/wordpoints_points_logs/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>[wordpoints_points_logs]</code></a> shortcode.
You can show how many points a user has using the <a href="https://wordpoints.org/user-guide/shortcodes/wordpoints_points/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>[wordpoints_points]</code></a> shortcode. You can also display a list of the top users with the most points using the <a href="https://wordpoints.org/user-guide/shortcodes/wordpoints_points_top/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>[wordpoints_points_top]</code></a> shortcode.
You can display a list of ways that your users can earn points using the <a href="https://wordpoints.org/user-guide/shortcodes/wordpoints_how_to_get_points/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>[wordpoints_how_to_get_points]</code></a> shortcode.
The plugin also provides <a href="https://wordpoints.org/user-guide/widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">several widgets</a> you can use for the same things as the shortcodes.
More features are always being planned, and you can check out the roadmap on the plugin website, <a href="https://wordpoints.org/roadmap/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPoints.org</a>.
Also on the plugin’s website, you can <a href="https://wordpoints.org/extensions/" rel="nofollow ugc">browse the available extensions</a>. There’s <a href="https://wordpoints.org/extensions/importer/" rel="nofollow ugc">an extension that imports from CubePoints to WordPoints</a>, one that <a href="https://wordpoints.org/extensions/woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">integrates with WooCommerce</a>, one that <a href="https://wordpoints.org/extensions/buddypress/" rel="nofollow ugc">integrates with BuddyPress</a>, and another that let’s you <a href="https://wordpoints.org/extensions/reset-points/" rel="nofollow ugc">reset your users’ points</a>. More are being added regularly, so take a look to see what is new.
<h4>Developers</h4>
If you are a developer, designer, or accessibility expert, and you’d like to give back to this plugin, you should visit the <a href="https://github.com/WordPoints/wordpoints/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s repo on GitHub</a>, where active development takes place.
If you are interested in integrating or extending the plugin, you’ll want to read the <a href="https://wordpoints.org/developer-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">developer docs</a>.
If you are a security researcher you can report vulnerabilities through our <a href="https://hackerone.com/wordpoints" rel="nofollow ugc">bug bounty program on HackerOne</a>.
<h4>Privacy Policy</h4>
WordPoints does not communicate with any remote services by default. However, when you install extensions from WordPoints.org or other servers, WordPoints may communicate with those services in order to provide you updates for the extensions. Check the privacy policy of the extension server in question to learn more about what information is shared with it, though generally only the ID and version of the extension will be sent to the update service.

WordPoints

Gamify your site, track user rep, or run a rewards program. WordPoints has a powerful core, infinitely extendable via add-ons.

Simple Badges vs WordPoints