Badges for junior members

#1 · January 28, 2018, 11:54 pm

Hi, our forum members can be 1. annual, 2. lifetime, 3. junior (children age 13-16). I’d like to badge the members, in particular to make it obvious to someone that they are talking with a junior member, so for example all junior members have a “J” badge as well as their avatar photo. How can I achieve this?

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#2 · January 30, 2018, 6:05 am

I was curious about badges for our forum also. I do know that Asgaros is known for being a light forum. Meaning not a lot of fancy features, maybe that’s why we don’t see badges?

The feature would be awesome though. Maybe in the future?
They’re good about responding too.

I was hoping for a “Top Member” widget, to show the most active users… 🙂

#3 · January 30, 2018, 12:39 pm

Hello,

I am not actually sure how you maintain your roles (annual, lifetime, junior). But if you use the implemented user groups-feature to group your users by those roles, it would be relatively easy to display the user group-name of a user below his avatar with the following code which has to be added to your themes functions.php-file:

function show_forum_role($user_id, $post_counter) {
  // Show user groups.
  $userGroups = AsgarosForumUserGroups::getUserGroupsOfUser($user_id, 'names');

  if (!empty($userGroups)) {
    foreach ($userGroups as $value) {
      echo '<br>'.$value;
    }
  }
}
add_action('asgarosforum_after_post_author', 'show_forum_role', 10, 2);

I also plan to add an user group-option with a future update which allows you to activate a checkbox for individual groups to show it to the public.

A “Top Member”-widget is not planned at the moment because this information is basically already available when you have a look at your members list (the members are sorted by the number of posts).

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#4 · February 4, 2018, 1:25 am

Thanks for answering. A bit more explanation; I’ve used the cimy extra fields plugin to add an extra field called MEMBERSHIP_BADGE of the type image url to every user and that image url links to one of three images (badges) I’ve created and uploaded to my media library (e.g.

“http://vlms.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Life_member_badge_sm.png”

So how would I adapt the code above to show the MEMBERSHIP_BADGE field (which contains an image URL) on the left below the avatar, name and postcount fields? See uploaded picture.

Our forum is at http://vlms.ca/forum/

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