WPBadger
WPBadger is a simple WordPress plugin for issuing badges and adding them to a user’s Open Badges backpack. Consider it Open Badger‘s lighter-weight cousin.
See the WPBadger wiki for details on the plugin’s roadmap, a list of early adopters and examples, and contact information. If you run into a problem, share your problem on the issue tracker.
Instructions For Use
By now you’ve successfully installed WPBadger. Congrats!
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Next, you need to add a badge. Click the “Badges” link on the left side of the WordPress admin, and add a new badge. The title is the name of your badge, the main textarea is where you describe your badge, there’s a field for a badge version (just make it something numerical, like 1.0), and you can set a badge image. Note that Open Badges requires you use a PNG image, but you can use any png image as your badge that you like.
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Once a badge has been added, you can “award” it to individuals. Click the “Awards” link on the left side of the WordPress admin, entering the reason an individual was awarded the badge in the main textarea, using the drop-down menu to select the specific badge, and entering their email. Upon awarding a badge, an email is sent to the user’s email address notifying them of the award.
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A user receiving an award can then click the link in their email, and on that page choose to accept or decline the badge they have been awarded. If they choose to accept, they are shown a lightbox for the Mozilla OpenBadges backpack, which manages the process of storing badges.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.