GamiPress – The most flexible and powerful gamification plugin for WordPress

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GamiPress is the easiest way to gamify your WordPress website in just a few minutes, letting you award your users with digital rewards for interacting with your site.

Easily define the achievements, organize requirements, and choose from a range of assessment options to determine whether each task or requirement has been successfully achieved.

GamiPress is extremely powerful and infinitely extensible. Check out some of the built in features:

3 powerful ways to award your users

GamiPress combines three of the most powerful award systems you could add to your site:

• Points to automatically award your users for interacting with your site.
• Achievements to award users for completing all the requirements, sequentially or otherwise.
• Ranks to let your users climb through the ranks by completing all the rank requirements.

Unlimited ways to define how to award the different points, achievements and ranks

• Site activity (events based on publishing posts and pages, commenting, daily visits or logging in to your site).
• Completing specific other achievements, once or a specified number of times.
• Completing one or all achievements of a specified type.
• Points thresholds.
• Admin awarded achievements.
• Reaching a specific rank.
• Expending an amount of points.

Features

• Points Types: Configure as many types of points as you like (Credits, Gems, Coins, etc).
• Achievement Types: Configure as many types of achievement as you like (Quests, Badges, etc).
• Rank Types: Configure as many types of rank as you like (Level, Grade, etc).
• Automatic points awards and deductions: Easily configure automatic ways to award or deduct points to your users.
• Custom requirements: Define conditional requirements the user needs to meet for unlock any achievement or rank.
• Time limit requirements: Limit by time period when the user can complete a specific requirement (minutely, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly).
• Drag and drop controls: Powerful controls to setup your gamification environment in minutes.
• Social sharing: Users can share the achievements and ranks they have earned on any social network of their choice.
• Unlock achievements and ranks using points: Let users to optionally unlock any achievement or rank by expending an amount of points without meet the requirements.
• Emails: Your users will get notified automatically about new awards.
• Logs: Flexible log system with support for public and private logs.
• Open Badges compatible: Connect your site achievements with Badgr or Credly to issue open badges as an official recognition of the skills of your users.
• Blocks, Shortcodes & Widgets: WordPress-friendly blocks, shortcodes and widgets to show the user points wallet, earned achievements, latest logs, and more.
• Live shortcode editor: Missing a shortcode parameter? Just press the “GamiPress Shortcode” button and set up any shortcode without a worry.
• GDPR Support: Support for WordPress personal data exports and deletions.
• Theme Agnostic: GamiPress works with just about any standard WordPress theme. No special hooks or theme updates are needed.
• Templates System: Overwritable templates system to allow you customize everything you want through your GamiPress theme folder.
• Data centralization on Multisite: Centralize all the data on multisite installs and show anything you want on any sub-site.
• Rest API: Full support to WordPress rest API brings you new ways to connect GamiPress with external applications.
• Developer-friendly: GamiPress is extremely flexible with plenty of hooks to add custom features and functionalities.

Integrated with your favorites WordPress plugins

GamiPress integrates with a large number of plugins allowing you to add gamification in any environment.

LMS integrations

• LearnDash
• H5P
• LearnPress
• LifterLMS
• Tutor LMS

Other integrations

• AutomatorWP
• WooCommerce
• Easy Digital Downloads
• AffiliateWP
• BuddyBoss
• BuddyPress
• bbPress
• Youtube & Vimeo
• Ultimate Member
• The Events Calendar
• Gravity Forms
• Contact Form 7

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Powerful add-ons to extend GamiPress

WordPress.org is home to some amazing extensions for GamiPress, including:

• Button & Link
• Transfers Notes
• Leaderboards Include/Exclude Users
• LearnDash Group Leaderboard
• BuddyPress Group Leaderboard
• Block Users
• Notifications By Type
• Multimedia Content
• Activity by Category

View all plugins on wordpress.org

If you’re looking for something endorsed and maintained by the developers who built GamiPress, there are a plethora of premium add-ons, the most popular of which include:

• Leaderboards
• Notifications
• Social Share
• Progress Map
• Restrict Content
• Reports & Frontend Reports
• Daily Login Rewards
• Time-based Rewards
• Referrals
• Transfers
• Zapier

View all add-ons

From WordPress backend

1. Navigate to Plugins -> Add new.
2. Click the button “Upload Plugin” next to “Add plugins” title.
3. Upload the downloaded zip file and activate it.

Direct upload

1. Upload the downloaded zip file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder.
2. Unzip the uploaded zip file.
3. Navigate to Plugins menu on your WordPress admin area.
4. Activate this plugin.

Is GamiPress compatible with any theme?

We built GamiPress so that it will work with modern WordPress themes. GamiPress just adds positional styles which will allow you to better customize everything for your specific needs.

Can GamiPress be easily translated?

Yes, GamiPress is stored in the official WordPress plugins repository where you (and anyone) are able to submit your own translations.

Does GamiPress work with WordPress multisite?

Yes. You can use GamiPress on a WordPress multisite network.

In addition, GamiPress has the ability to centralize all the data when is network wide active.

Does GamiPress work with WordPress rest API?

Yes. GamiPress includes full built-in support to the WordPress rest API.

You can find all information about rest API on this page.

Where can I find documentation about GamiPress?

Check the Getting Started docs where you can start getting familiarized with GamiPress.

Also, we have the tutorials sections where you can find step-by-step guides to accomplish some common task to start working with GamiPress.

Where can I find code snippets to customize GamiPress?

Check our customize section where you can find a huge number of code snippets to help you customize GamiPress.

Where can I find images to customize the GamiPress elements?

Check our assets section where you can find a huge number of resources to decorate your gamification elements to take the design of them to the next level.

Which shortcodes come bundled with GamiPress?

GamiPress comes with the following shortcodes:

• [gamipress_achievement] to display a desired achievement.
• [gamipress_achievements] to display a list of achievements.
• [gamipress_last_achievements_earned] to display the last achievements earned.
• [gamipress_earnings] to display a list of user earnings.
• [gamipress_logs] to display a list of logs.
• [gamipress_points_types] to display a list of points types with their points awards and deducts.
• [gamipress_user_points] to display current or specific user points balance.
• [gamipress_site_points] to display current or specific site points balance.
• [gamipress_points] to display current or specific user or site points balance.
• [gamipress_rank] to display a desired rank.
• [gamipress_ranks] to display a list of ranks.
• [gamipress_user_rank] to display previous, current and/or next rank of a user.
• [gamipress_email_settings] to display the user email notifications preferences for the GamiPress emails.
• [gamipress_inline_achievement] to display a desired achievement inline.
• [gamipress_inline_last_achievements_earned] to display the last achievements earned inline.
• [gamipress_inline_rank] to display a desired rank inline.
• [gamipress_inline_user_rank] to display previous, current and/or next rank of a user inline.

In your WordPress admin area, navigate to the GamiPress Help/Support menu where you can find the full list of available shortcodes, including descriptions of all parameters each shortcode supports.

Which blocks and widgets come bundled with GamiPress?

GamiPress comes with the following blocks and widgets:

• Achievement: to display a desired achievement.
• Achievements: to display a list of achievements.
• Last Achievements Earned: to display a list of the latest achievements earned.
• User Earnings: to display a list of user earnings.
• Logs: to display a list of logs.
• Points Types: to display a list of points types with their points awards and deducts.
• User Points: to display current or specific user points balance.
• Rank: to display a desired rank.
• Ranks: to display a list of ranks.
• User Rank: to display previous, current and/or next rank of a user.
• Email Settings: to display the user email notifications preferences for the GamiPress emails.
• Inline Achievement: to display a desired achievement inline.
• Inline Last Achievements Earned: to display a list of the latest achievements earned inline.
• Inline Rank: to display a desired rank inline.
• Inline User Rank: to display previous, current and/or next rank of a user inline.

Do you offer custom development services?

No, We’re unable to provide custom development services, as our focus is developing the core GamiPress plugin, and the official GamiPress add-ons. If you need customization services check our customizations page.

Also, you can check our customize section where you can find a huge number of code snippets to help you customize GamiPress!

2.3.9.2

• Improvements
• Reduced the number of elements used per database query to prevent exceed the server resources limit.

2.3.9.1

• Improvements
• Reduced the number of entries to process per loop in 2.3.7 upgrade for large databases.

2.3.9

• Improvements
• Improved the upgrade 2.3.7 to prevent collapse the server database.
• Added a small delay between upgrade runs, now upgrades will run slower but this prevents to overload the server.

2.3.8

• Improvements
• Reduced the number of items to process in upgrade 2.3.7 to prevent exceed the PHP max execution time on large databases.

2.3.7

• Improvements
• Added a new upgrade process to append information to user earnings for filtering in User Earnings block, shortcode and widget.
• Bug Fixes
• Ensure to correctly display achievement steps of the types allowed in User Earnings block, shortcode and widget (requires run upgrade process).
• Prevent PHP warning about undefined index in emails.
• Prevent to query P2P table on new installs.

2.3.6

• New Features
• Added the ability to change log title from the log edit screen.
• Improvements
• Prevent PHP warnings during activation caused by CMB2 library.

2.3.5

• Bug Fixes
• Prevent PHP warnings during activation caused by checking the existent database tables during activation.
• Developer Notes
• Added the filter “gamipress_get_user_points” to let extend the way that points are displayed (thanks to @gkipouros).

2.3.4

• Improvements
• Performance improvement reducing the database queries to check if a table exists.

2.3.3

• Improvements
• Style improvements for the admin area forms.
• Tested with WordPress 6.0.

2.3.2

• New Features
• Added the email tag {points_image} with the points type featured image on points awards/deducts email templates.
• Bug Fixes
• Prevent to lost sequential steps option when saving the achievement through the quick edit form.

2.3.1

• New Features
• New options for several blocks, shortcodes and widgets:
• • Option to set the title text size.
• • Option to set the thumbnail size.
• • Option to show/hide the heading text on steps, requirements, points awards and deducts.
• • Option to set the heading text size.
• New block and widget: Inline Achievement.
• New shortcode: [gamipress_inline_achievement].
• New block and widget: Inline Last Achievements Earned.
• New shortcode: [gamipress_inline_last_achievements_earned].
• New block and widget: Inline Rank.
• New shortcode: [gamipress_inline_rank].
• New block and widget: Inline User Rank.
• New shortcode: [gamipress_inline_user_rank].
• New event: Get a specific achievement revoked.
• New event: Get any achievement of type revoked.
• New event: Get a rank revoked.
• Improvements
• Removed the word “Required” from the achievement steps heading.
• Style improvements in some form components.
• Added new CSS classes to headings when listing steps, requirements, points awards and deducts.
• Developer Notes
• Added a new points inline template to make it overridable through the template system.
• Added an achievement inline template.
• Added an achievements inline template.
• Added a rank inline template.
• Added a ranks inline template.

2.3.0

• Improvements
• Improved database query for the user earnings shortcode, block and widget.

2.2.9

• Bug Fixes
• Prevent PHP notices for undefined array keys.

2.2.8

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed the post selector result processing.
• Developer Notes
• Updated CMB2 library to 2.10.1.

2.2.7

• New Features
• Added the ability to define achievement and rank requirements as optional to allow unlock achievements and ranks without complete all its requirements.
• New URL field on requirements to allow define a custom URL to the requirement.
• Improvements
• Full style rework of the requirements UI.
• Style improvements in several areas.
• Added the ability to search users and posts by ID in selectors by just typing the ID number.
• Developer Notes
• Updated CMB2 library to 2.10.

2.2.6

• Improvements
• Improved rank earners heading title.
• Developer Notes
• Added new filters to extend the achievement and rank heading titles.
• Localize some script texts.
• Added new filters to extend the usage of points, achievement and rank selectors.
• Added new filters to extend the usage of post type and user role selectors (thanks to @pryley).

2.2.5

• New Features
• Added the “Dashboard” page.
• Improvements
• Improved the Help/Support page display.
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed incorrect redirections to the Clear Cache action.

2.2.4

• Developer Notes
• Tested with WordPress 5.9.

2.2.3

• Developer Notes
• Added support for CMB2 fields data removal if field has “multiple” set to “true”.

2.2.2

• Developer Notes
• Make use of the min() function when defining length of the table keys (thanks to @mholubowski).

2.2.1

• New Features
• Added user email preferences support to meet the EU GDPR requirements.
• Added the shortcode [gamipress_email_settings] to display the user email notifications preferences for the GamiPress emails.
• Added the block and widget Email Settings to display the user email notifications preferences for the GamiPress emails.
• Developer Notes
• Quote all fields and indexes during database creation to improve compatibility with some database servers.

2.2.0

• New Features
• Added to the “Last Achievement Earned” block, shortcode and widget support to display multiples achievements.
• Renamed the block, shortcode and widget “Last Achievement Earned” to “Last Achievements Earned”.
• Developer Notes
• Keep backward compatibility with the shortcode [gamipress_last_achievement_earned] and its new version [gamipress_last_achievements_earned].

2.1.9

• Improvements
• Prevent the use of the deprecated “block_categories” hook for WP installs on 5.8 or higher (thanks to @martatorre and @omhabibal).

2.1.8

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed wrong check that causes an infinite loop in the export personal data tool.

2.1.7

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed issue during database tables creation for numeric keys.

2.1.6

• Improvements
• Ensure to provide a key length during database indexes creation to avoid issues with databases that requires key length.

2.1.5

• Improvements
• Multisite: Ensure to load users only from the current site in all tools or fields who query users.

2.1.4

• Improvements
• Improved database indexes creation to ensure maximum performance on the GamiPress tables.
• Ensure the creation of table indexes during installation.
• Updated GamiPress table versions to force table indexes creation on already installed websites.
• Updated Custom Tables library.

2.1.3

• Improvements
• Ensure to deduct points when a user earning gets revoked.

2.1.2

• New Features
• Added the points type image in the achievement points awarded.
• Added the attribute “points_awarded_thumbnail” in all achievement related shortcodes.
• Added the option “Show Points Awarded Thumbnail” in all achievement related block and widgets.
• New shortcode: [gamipress_last_achievement_earned].
• New block and widget: GamiPress: Last Achievement Earned.
• Added a helper link to clear the GamiPress cache directly from the GamiPress menus.
• Improvements
• Improved several shortcodes, blocks and widgets fields descriptions.
• Improved shortcodes descriptions.
• Developer Notes
• Added new utility functions to make more easy to work with logs and user earnings metas.
• Added new utility functions to query user earnings efficiently.

2.1.1

• Improvements
• Added new checks when revoking a rank from user earnings to update the user rank to the previous one.

2.1.0

• Improvements
• Performance in database table structure adding more new keys for speed up all database queries.
• Order registered types alphabetically.
• Multisite: Ensure to only display achievement or rank earners from the current site.

2.0.9

• Improvements
• Added required parameters in the ‘get_the_excerpt’ filter to avoid compatibility issues.
• Multisite: Added extra check when exporting data to ensure that only users from the current site gets exported when GamiPress is not active network wide.

2.0.8

• New Features
• Tested GamiPress with WordPress 5.8.
• Improvements
• Improved styles for the new widgets area.

2.0.7

• Developer Notes
• Added new filters to extend the GamiPress Earnings block.

2.0.6

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed typo causing an incorrect earned status display for time limited requirements.

2.0.5

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed post type based events count.
• Fixed role based events count.

2.0.4

• Developer Notes
• Added the activity count wheres filter on activity count limited to match in the same result for both functions.
• Added new filters to extend the gamipress_send_email() function.

2.0.3

• New Features
• New Tool: Export User Earnings.
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed “Show Achievements Without Points” field visibility on User Earnings block.
• Developer Notes
• Added new hooks to override the insufficient points message when unlocking achievements and ranks using points.
• Added several helper functions to reduce the plugin code.
• Moved the register image sizes outside the core class.

2.0.2

• Bug Fixes
• Fixed incorrect display of time limited steps that are displayed as completed when the user has not earned them.
• Fixed incorrect new rank assignment on the Bulk Revokes tool.

2.0.1

• Improvements
• Style improvements on the admin area.
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed cache clean up for “Unlock all achievements of type” event.

2.0.0

• New Features
• Added the conditions equal to, greater than and less than to the “Reach a points balance” event.
• Support for HTML content on requirements labels.
• Added the shortcodes [gamipress_user_points] and [gamipress_site_points].
• Added the blocks and widgets GamiPress: User Points and GamiPress: Site Points.
• New settings to display the times a user has earned an achievement on the single template.
• New settings to display the number of users who have earned an achievement on the single template.
• New shortcode, block and widget settings to display the times a user has earned an achievement.
• New shortcode, block and widget settings to display the number of users who have earned an achievement on the single template.
• Added new alignment options to all shortcodes, blocks and widgets.
• Added new alignment options to achievements and ranks template options.
• Improvements
• Added installation instructions on the Licenses page.
• Extended custom tables permissions functionality to allow full access to users that meet the “Minimum role to access GamiPress” setting.
• Improved the display of the achievement max. earnings column on the admin area.
• Prevent trashed types to get listed.
• Style improvements on several areas.
• Bug Fixes
• Fixed warning array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array on scripts.
• Developer Notes
• Updated Custom Tables library.
• Added new hooks to extend the display of achievements.
• Added the gamipress_get_renderer() function to easily access to the current renderer (shortcode, block or widget).
• Moved old changelog to changelog.txt file.
• Set GamiPress 2.0.0 as new stable release! 🙂