WordPress · Free · Points, badges, leagues

Members show up once, then never come back.

WB Gamification gives them a reason to return: points for what they already do, badges worth earning, and a weekly league they can climb. It reads your stack and starts scoring on its own.

Version 1.6.4. Every integration and every mechanic is in the free plugin. There are no paid add-ons.

Scores activity in

  • WordPress
  • BuddyPress
  • WooCommerce
  • LearnDash
  • bbPress
  • LifterLMS
  • MemberPress
  • GiveWP
  • and 13 more

21 integrations, none of them paid

It scores what your site already does.

Each integration loads on its own when the plugin it belongs to is active. You do not pick them, and you do not buy them separately.

Third-party

  • WordPress core
  • BuddyPress
  • bbPress
  • WooCommerce
  • LearnDash
  • LifterLMS
  • MemberPress
  • GiveWP
  • The Events Calendar

Wbcom products

  • BuddyNext
  • Jetonomy
  • Learnomy
  • Eventonomy
  • Listora
  • WP Career Board
  • WPMediaVerse

Free and Pro editions of our own plugins each have their own manifest, which is why the count is higher than the product count.

The mechanics

Points on their own do not bring anyone back.

Three jobs, and the plugin ships all of them. Nothing here is an add-on.

Come back tomorrow

Streaks
Daily activity with grace periods and milestones at 7, 30, 100 and 365 days.
Daily bonus
A reason to open the site that is not a notification.
Weekly recap email
What they earned last week, opt out per member.

Compete without it turning nasty

Cohort leagues
Weekly promotion and demotion in small groups, so a new member competes with peers instead of the all-time leader.
Leaderboards
All-time, monthly, weekly and daily, scopeable to a BuddyPress group.
Community challenges
One shared counter everyone contributes to, and everyone earns when it is hit.

Make the points worth something

Redemption store
Members spend points on rewards you define, or WooCommerce coupons.
Badges worth showing
Public share pages with OpenBadges 3.0 credentials and LinkedIn deep links.
Peer kudos
Members award each other, with daily limits and moderation.

Pricing

Free, with no add-ons to buy.

There is no paid edition and no add-on store. Every integration and every mechanic below is in the free plugin.

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No licence key. Version 1.6.4.

  • 21 integrations, loaded automatically
  • 19 Gutenberg blocks and 17 shortcodes
  • Points, badges, levels and leaderboards
  • Cohort leagues with weekly promotion
  • Community challenges with a shared goal
  • Redemption store for spending points
  • Streaks, daily bonus and peer kudos
  • Badge sharing with OpenBadges 3.0 credentials
  • Webhooks for Zapier, Make and n8n
  • REST API, WP-CLI and 142 developer hooks
  • Five starter templates, so setup is a choice not a project
  • GDPR export and erasure built in

Questions before you install.

  1. 01

    What do members actually earn points for?

    Whatever your site already does. Publishing, commenting, buying, completing a lesson, joining a group, giving kudos. Each integration ships its own set of scored actions and you set the value of each one.

  2. 02

    Which plugins does it work with?

    Twenty-one integrations load on their own when the matching plugin is active: WordPress core, BuddyPress, bbPress, WooCommerce, LearnDash, LifterLMS, MemberPress, GiveWP and The Events Calendar, plus our own BuddyNext, Jetonomy, Learnomy, Eventonomy, Listora, WP Career Board and WPMediaVerse. Free and Pro editions of ours each have their own, which is why the number is higher than the product count.

  3. 03

    Do I have to buy add-ons for the good parts?

    No, and this is the main difference from the alternatives. Cohort leagues, community challenges, the redemption store, badge sharing, webhooks and every integration are in the free plugin. There is no Pro edition and no add-on store.

  4. 04

    How long does setup take?

    Pick one of five starter templates and it is configured. Everything is editable afterwards, but you do not have to design a points economy before you can switch it on.

  5. 05

    Will a new member ever catch the top of the leaderboard?

    That is what cohort leagues are for. Members compete in small groups with weekly promotion and demotion, so someone who joined last week competes with peers rather than with your all-time leader.

  6. 06

    Can members spend the points, or only collect them?

    Spend them. The redemption store lets them exchange points for rewards you define, or for WooCommerce coupons.

  7. 07

    Are badges public?

    Only if the member shares them. Every badge is private until they press Share, and a shared badge gets a public page with an OpenBadges 3.0 credential and a LinkedIn deep link.

  8. 08

    Where does it show on the site?

    Nineteen Gutenberg blocks and seventeen shortcodes, so it works in the block editor and in Elementor, Beaver Builder or Bricks.

  9. 09

    Can I connect it to other tools?

    Yes. HMAC-signed outbound webhooks fire on the events you subscribe to, for Zapier, Make or n8n, and there is a REST API and a set of WP-CLI commands.

  10. 10

    Will it hold up on a large site?

    It is built for it: awards run through an async pipeline, leaderboards are snapshot-cached, and a badge is only re-evaluated when something that could change its answer has happened.

Free download

Give members a reason to come back tomorrow.

Pick a starter template, and the site starts scoring what your members already do.