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Hi starbanter, sorry for the slight delay in response. Just so I’m following along properly, which specific video were you not seeing the same results for? That way I could make sure I’m helping understand the right part and offer more information.

Its the Getting Started video, and right about 5:36 in.

Ok, it looks like you’re getting 404 issues when you try to view the single achievement. Just to be sure it’s been done, could you go re-visit your permalinks settings page, but don’t change any settings. Just visit the url once, and then try to view the achievement again.

Just as a note, all of the created achievement types are custom post types, which will hopefully clarify things in the future as you get questions.

Once you’ve done the permalinks settings page and confirmed if that cleared the 404, let me know and we can proceed

I opened the Permalinks page, yes … but I think maybe I was also not understanding the hierarchy of the achievements. I can see the posts now, and have tried a few different options to see what resulted.

But – I cannot find any of this on the front end. I still feel like I am missing a basic setup function. I see the achievements in the Menus page, but I didn’t build the site using menus and am not sure how to incorporate them now. I realize this is not a plugin issue, but if you know a way…. ?

Take for example the “Badges” achievement type that comes out of the box.

When you navigate to BadgeOS > Badges you see a blank list of badge achievements. But you can add new ones at the top. You click that, fill in the title, content, requirements for it etc, and hit publish. Correct? Then you can go back to that Badges list and click “view” when hovering over the one you just created. When you hit view, you should be lead to a frontend page that shows all of the badge content that you entered.

This will be the same for any custom ones you add under BadgeOS > Achievements.

However, they’re not automatically listed anywhere out of the box that I can recall. That’s where things like any widgets/shortcodes come in. Those allow you to display the available achievement types somewhere, say on a page named “Available Achievements”.

Not sure if they’re available to display in menus, that may be your theme doing its own thing or falling back to a different function to populate a menu.

I understand a little better – thank you. You are a kind and benevolent plugin developer… I am going to mark this as resolved as my initial question has been answered. I still have work to do but that’s up to me. I appreciate your attentiveness and sorry for my delay in responding.

I see how to award a badge, and the sidebar link showing “people who have earned this” seems to show only the avatar – no user name. Is there a way to add the username?

And the shortcode [badgeos_achievements_list] has this line showing up on the page:

No to display at this time.

A typo I assume. So that’s two different new topics I know –

Not sure the sidebar part is set to display user ID by default. For that part, you have 2 filters available

badgeos_earners_heading

For the headline aka “People who have earned this” etc. Then you also have

badgeos_get_achievement_earners_list_user

which is inside a foreach loop. It’s going to pass in this:

$user_content = '<li><a href="' . get_author_posts_url( $user->ID ) . '">' . get_avatar( $user->ID ) . '</a></li>';

It’ll be as a string, so it won’t be the easiest thing to manipulate, but it’d be something. The filter will pass in that $user_content variable and the $user->ID int.

Feel free to start a new thread about the other part. I wager it’s not so much a typo but part of the sentence is controlled by a variable that was strangely empty at the time you saw it. From the following:

$achievements .= '<p>' . sprintf( __( 'No %s to display at this time.', 'badgeos' ), strtolower( $post_type_plural ) ) . '</p>';

$post_type_plural was somehow empty.