NOTE: This page is for SE v4, if you are looking for SE v3, please visit Badge Plugin for SocialEngine v3 page. If you have Badge plugin license for SE v3, and would like to upgrade to v4, please visit Badge Plugin – Version Upgrade v4 page

The Badge plugin allows members to be assigned ‘badges’ which can be displayed as a series of iconic images. These badges can be manually assigned to each members, or automatically assigned to members who met badge’s requirements that specified / customized by the admin.

Sample Use-Cases

Auto-Assigning Badge (Member Mapping)

• Administrator can config a badge so that it would requires members with Paid Membership Level, who have been a member for at least 2 months, and last logged in within a week, and have Business Profile type to have “[PREMIUM ACTIVE BUSINESS]” badge show up on their profiles.
• You can also create a badge which list members who have the most “profile page views” with minimum of 100 views in total, belong to “Europe” and “United States” networks, and must sent out 10 invites with profile photo uploaded. So any members who meet requirements listed would have this “[HOT MEMBER PROFILE]” (just a sample name) badge.
• Another simplest usage case would be to assign each badge to corresponding member level (or profile type), so that Administrators would have “[ADMINISTRATOR]” badge; Moderators would have “[MODERATOR]” badge; and “Regular” members would have “[MEMBER]” badge, and so on etc..

Manual-Assigning Badge (Award)

• You can create a special badge for contributors, let’s name it “[DONORS]” badge, and manually give it to members who donated to your site.
• Depending on your needs, you may even create a “[MEMBER OF THE YEAR]” badge, and give it to your best member whom you think deserve it.
• Basically, you can create an “Award” type of badge, and assign to any member(s) to recognize them, or simply for a elite group/team of members such as “[V.I.P]“

Members can also make request to have certain badges. Request can be reject / approve by administrator, and can be turn on/off anytime, or just for members who meet badge’s requirement. Administrator can also put message notes to requester why such request was rejected etc..

Key Features

• Badge Landing Home Page can be controlled / manage via Admin :: Layout Editor
• Support 2 members assignment mode
• Ability to include / exclude members from the member-list
• Many built-in requirements/filters to build a wide range of conditions to give badge to different set of members
• Various of sorting members in badge profile member browse page
• Award can be given to member
• Awarded badge can have expiration date
• Full detail award view page with WYSIWYG editor, comment-able etc..
• Member can made request with approval from admin
• Badge / Award can be manually sorted in whatever order you like
• Built-in widgets with different settings that let you control different result / display mode.

Supported Badge’s Membership Requirements Check:

You can use any combination of filters below to build condition for member to have certain badges

• Profile photo upload
• Minimum profile view count
• Minimum invites used
• Minimum Account/Signup days
• Last member login days
• Member Levels
• Profile Types
• Member Networks
• Forum Moderator (require official SE Forum plugin)

Widgets

• Categories (settings: photo, details, description)
• Featured Award/Member (randomized)
• List Awards (settings: limit # awards, badge, user, featured, photo, details, display wide/narrow mode)
• List Badges (settings: limit # badges, category, assignment type, sorting, photo, details, display wide/narrow mode)
• Top Menu
• Search Form
• Member Profile Badges (settings: limit # badges, toggle badge title )
• Member Profile Awards (settings: limit # awards, toggle title/description/meta info, optional link to badge profile page)

Demo

For demonstration purposes, we have turned off some options / features on purpose to prevent abuse. Some features may require you to log in or special permissions, please feel free to create an account for full test-drive experience.

• Badges Landing Home Page
• Badges browse page
• Awards browse page
• Sample Badge: Business profile type members joined America / Europe networks
• Sample Badge: Top List of members
• Sample Badge: Donators (click on learn more)
• Sample Badge by Member Level: Administrator | Moderator | Member (required photo profile upload)
• Sample Awarded Badge – Member of The Month
• Sample award – recognition page
• Sample profile with badge / award integration

Screenshots

Below are screenshots in admin control panel. For user front-end screenshot, please check out the live demo section above.

• Admin – Global Settings
• Admin – Member Level Settings
• Admin – Manage Categories
• Admin – Manage Badges
• Create Badge – Mapping/Automatic Assignment Type
• Create Badge – Award/Manual Assignment Type
• Admin – Manage Awards
• Create/Post New Award
• Admin – Manage Requests
• Update Member Request
• Layout Editor – Badge Home Page
• Widget – List Badges
• Widget – List Awards
• Widget – Profile Badges
• Widget – Profile Awards
• Widget – Categories

Note: This upgrade is for existing Badge Plugin purchasers. If you do not have a license for it yet, you can purchase one on Badge / Award / Special Members Plugin for SocialEngine v4 page. This is plugin’s files version upgrade purchase only, not an upgrade/migration script. There is no migration tool/script available for 3rd-party plugins, and SE migration tool only support official plugins.

NOTE: This page is for SE v3, if you are looking for SE v4, please visit Badge / Award / Special Members Plugin for SocialEngine v4 page.

The plugin allows each user to be assigned badges which can be displayed as a series of iconic images on their profiles. Users can optionally pay to have badges. Admin can also use this to build pages for special members, award pages for members with detailed review and recognition etc.. Badges can also be assigned across various of system user groupings like user-level, subnetwork, profile type.

This plugin is very flexity and allows you to run it in combination of different modes. A common use will probably be to display the badges on user’s profile. These badges can be assigned individually by the administrator or attached to a user-level, subnetwork, or even profile type so that, for example, all users in the ‘Super User’ level will show the ‘Super User’ badge which could display as a graphic icon/image.

Badges can also be assigned, chosen or even purchase (PAID badge) by user themselves if administrator turn on that option. This would generate some nice extra income for your site if you have some incentive for your user to get special badges on their profile. An example would be to have those of badge member pages listed under “Special Members” menu, like “Charter Member”, “Premium Supporters”, “Donators”, “VIP” etc.. If user want to be listed on that page, they would have to pay (or not .. up to you :-)

Key Features

• Details user-level control / setting
• Support both FREE / PAID badges
• Admin approval process
• Run on both user, and admin assignment mode.
• Allow to control limit number of badge user can have
• Support system-wide assignment for user level, subnetwork, profile type.
• Can be used to built special / featured member pages.
• Can be used to award users, review members with special recognition or achievement.
• Integrated on profile page, home page, and other pages.
• Different linking option, and running mode
• Detailed permission controls for each badge
• Full member review page.
• many more ..

Requirements

• SocialEngine v3
• ePayment Module (FREE in account area)

Demo

Note: you may have to sign up for an account and log in to use all of its functionality.

1) On header, top menu, you should see “Badges”, and “Special Members” (can easily change the language to anything you like). You can config exactly what should be listed under “Special Members” menu, for demonstration purposes, I listed “Charter Members”, and “VIP” pages, for members who actually paid to get listed there.

http://se3.radcodes.net/home.php

2) Member Recognition page (review/description written by admin). You can use this feature for anything from “founder”, “about xxx”, “learn more ..”, maybe full page advertisement for “special/featured” members/companies etc…

http://se3.radcodes.net/badgeassignment/1/

http://se3.radcodes.net/badgeassignment/2/

3) Browse Badges page: unlimited category, admin can also control what badge should go on this page. A badge can be marked as private so that only admin can have access to and assign to user.

http://se3.radcodes.net/browse_badges.php

4) Single badge page view: list all users who has this badge.

http://se3.radcodes.net/badge/9/

5) Badges by User-Level, Subnetwork, Profile Type: basically admin can easily set assign a badge for any of these system group. All users who belong to that group will get the badge. For example, you can assign “special gold badge” for users who belong to “PAID Premium” user-level, so that they stand out. Perhaps, if you have Guy / Girl subnetworks, you can do Mars and Venus sign badges for them as well.

http://se3.radcodes.net/badgeusers/level/2/

http://se3.radcodes.net/badgeusers/subnet/2/

I did not config the system to have badge for Profile-Type so there is no demo for it.

6) Profile integration: show on side, tab, or manual integrated

http://se3.radcodes.net/pgtop/