User Badges is a WordPress Plugin that allows you to gamify your blog and give out badges and awards for users on your blog. Gamification and badges are proven to drive more engagement and users will interact with your blog more, just to earn the shiny next badge.
User badges comes with 11 automatically assigned badges. Users get points for reading articles, posting comments and even just visiting your site. And they get gold, silver and bronze medals for achievements in each category.
Badges will can be shown on the comments page or under user profile etc. Like this
You can also create custom badges and assign it to users. Good examples are for people who answer other people’s questions can be awarded a star for helping the community.
Another example is, you can award a “Cake” to people who win some contest you run.
The possibilities are limitless!
By enabling User Badges, you are encouraging users who visit your page to register, read more and post.
A bonus hidden badge, which will give users points for consequently visiting your website everyday will be unlocked in a few weeks!
Future versions will also have widgets that will update in real time.