Badge Expire or auto expiry of badges

Hmm, I don’t know of anything out of the box for this, but I can imagine it being at least somewhat possible with a bit of coding handling. Not sure what your comfort level is with coding though, before I try and go into greater details on how I’d approach the topic.

I’m not a coder but I do dabble and I can find my way around .php files.

I just worked this script out:
https://jsfiddle.net/robinhind/5fzt6aqt/1/
really simple, it uses an event listener to unhide a button when the video is finished.

Not very fancy but that’s about the level i’m at if it helps?

as i mentioned, this plugin https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/post-auto-expire-control/

promises to do exactly what i need, set an expiry date for X time after the badge has been awarded, email the user when it’s about to expire, etc but is no longer supported, dunno if it may give a good starting point for you though?

Thanks for the help

Rob

Can’t say that was the direction my mind was going in.

Essentially part of the meta data saved with a user’s earned achievements is a timestamp for when they earned the achievement. My thoughts were to set up some sort of regularly running cron job to check each user’s achievements for the specified achievement and earned time. If it hadn’t been a year yet, leave alone, if it has been a year revoke the achievement via a helper function available in the code. It wouldn’t need to be a constantly running thing, just once a day or whatever interval someone wants.

That sounds perfect in theory……

I have limited knowledge of cron jobs, but i do have a site set up that we could test on with sensei, Badgeos etc.

Is this something we could do? i’m willing to help in any way i can but as i said i’m not much of a coder.

Thanks for your help though

Rob

I don’t see why my notes couldn’t be done by someone with enough time and knowledge. However, I know I don’t have the time at the moment to do any actual implementation and testing.

Okay, time constraints appreciated.

I’ve got a bit of time, space to test and i’m quite keen to do this, I’m light on knowledge though but if you could give me some notes, pointers and a kick in the right direction then i have no problem sharing whatever comes of it so you can integrate it into future versions?

Would this be of interest?

[email protected]

Thanks
Rob

I’d check the includes/user.php file from BadgeOS for some helper functions with regards to fetching and updating the user achievements, and also WP’s Cron API.

The since parameter is saved in a UTC timestamp, which is seconds since a date I can’t recall, but you can use it to do your math calculations and time elapsed, to determine if it’s been a year or not. In your cron callbacks, you’ll want to query for users, loop over their achievements, compare the since value to the current time in seconds and see if the math gives more than 1 year and remove the achievement index if so. After that, update with their new achievement array and move to the next person.

Feel free to ask questions and provide code you have going in your attempt, and I’ll help answer questions the best I can.

Wondering if there are any updates here.

I have a request that has come in for badge expiration based on issue date along with email notifications on expiration…have you have any luck @robinhind ?

Just need some sort of php starting point and where to implement if someone has already begun working on this I’d love the headstart!

Thanks guys!

I see this is resolved, so, thats why I ask–or was this closed based on above input?

It got marked as resolved due to no new feedback after 10 months.