As you might have heard badges were released with a BLAST. Today badges got even better. We started showing badges next to avatars on posts, comments and replies!
This makes badges even more powerful when differentiating the members of your community that deserve recognition! Badges are another way to motivate and engage your community to continue interacting with your forum. They also make your forum look more exciting.
You can award members for being the best or doing the most of something, or use them to give thanks and signal a member's positive participation in a community.
Forum Admins can assign badges to members in 2 ways:
1. From your Dashboard > Customer Management > Site Members
2. From your Live Site > Member Profile > Three dots on a member > Assign Badges
For other related questions head to:
https://support.wix.com/en/site-members/creating-member-badges
Don’t wait. Let a forum member know that their involvement in your forum is appreciated by sharing a status symbol - give them a badge!
Are badges automatically applied to users? Like if a user makes so many posts or comments the badge is applied? Or is it manual.
Not yet, but soon!
trying right now to figure it out using backend. the pseudo code would be. if visitor just sign up then assign default badge IDs. Not so hard, now is to make it work in code
@Domas Sabockis That's great news!
@Domas Sabockis This is awesome! Is there a way though to turn off the badges that say Admin, Moderator, or Blog Writer? I just want to display badges that we have created. Lastly, is this site going to give members, badges?
This was exactly what we were discussing with colleagues yesterday, because I would love too have a badge instead of "Admin" :) Yeah, we're giving out badges here :)
@Domas Sabockis Ok thank you. I hope I can get a badge :)
Excellent news.
Thank you, @Domas Sabockis ... much appreciated Wix team!
Does anyone have a list of badge names / requirements that would be good to use? It would be nice if there were templates or default badges for us less creative folk lol.
Found quite a few creative sets just a couple Google searches away :)
@Domas Sabockis 😂
Hey @Domas Sabockis, can there be a option to add the badge icon to the forum feed so it’s seen before clicking on the post? That’d be great!
wouldn't that make the list a bit messy?
I have a martial arts school and I made up badges for the different age groups and skill level. Is there anyway I can have my younger signup through their parents email / no email?
I have a martial arts school and I made up badges for the different age groups and skill level. Is there anyway I can have my younger signup through their parents email / no email?
there should be a 'badge trophy case' so when a badge is removed (for badges that are temporary) it'll say somewhere on the profile all the previous badges the user had.
agreed
Cool!
I'd like to edit the icon of each badge and put an image I designed, but now I can only use the images that Wix provide. Please, consider adding this feature. It'd be great.
I'm pretty sure this exists already.
In the wix Dashboard click on customer manegement > Site Members
In the white rectangle to the top of the page click on Manage Badges
Click on New Badge
Click on the box to the bottom right that is labled Icon (Optional)
In the image browser that opens, click on Upload image.
@haggiben הגיבן Yes, you can add an image, but not ANYONE, only Wix images. I have tried a minute ago, and there's no way I can use an image I upload. Just vector art from Wix.
Hi there @Laura Romero so what you can do is actually when you are in the badge creation screen, click on the box Icon (optional), you will get this media upload manager:
Now if you want to upload your custom image you just need to click the Upload Media button in the top left. From here you are able to actually upload from your Computer or just drag & drop a file into the box.
(Note that specifically for badges, images are only supported in a vector format, for example .svg)
Just an example that I've uploaded a custom image which is a search icon, that is a .svg file format:
Is there a way to have member badges show up on an individual's comments? For example, if they're a dedicated fan of the site, have that badge show up next to their name when they post comments on the blog?
That's possible for Forum. You can scroll a few comments up in this post and you will see that next "Mantas Peldžius" it says "Product Designer". Unfortunately that's not available for Blog. You can ask about it more in their forum: https://www.wix-blog-community.com/blog/discussions
This is nice.