GAMIFYING
WORDPRESS
Bronson Quick
sennza | (07) 3040-1545 | bronson@sennza.com.au | http://www.sennza.com.au/ | Twitter: @sennza @bronsonquick

OVERVIEW
 Who Am I?
 Why WordPress?
 What Excites Me About WordPress
 The Brief
 Examples Of Challenges
 Core Plugins
 The Theme
 BuddyPress
 Achievements
 Moderator Roles
 Stats
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I love talking about our WordPress projects!

WHO AM I?
 WordPress Developer @ Sennza
 Corporate WP design, theme and plugin development
 Google, News Corp, Lorna Jane, Qld Govt & Meerkats ;)
 Die hard Smashing Pumpkins fan!
Just a guy who is obsessed with WordPress!
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WHY WORDPRESS?
 Frequent release cycle
 Easy to theme
 Easy to extend – over 26,000 plugins
 Powers 20% of the internet
 Modern tools for future releases – unit tests, grunt, CSS pre-processors
TLDR: Because it’s awesome!
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http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/08/06/a-new-frontier-for-core-development/

WHAT EXCITES ME ABOUT WORDPRESS?
 Google App Engine
 HelloBar
 Compare The Meerkat
 WordPress As An Application Framework
 Gamifying WordPress
Unusual uses of WordPress!
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THE BRIEF
 University of Chicago
 Create a blog for a fictional 17 year-old African American girl living in Chicago
 Her mother is overburdening her with extracurricular activities and keeping her from
having a real social life
 Uses her site to post blogs and vlogs
 She crowd sources challenges (online & offline) to teams of students created by the
university
 Players are rewarded for completing challenges with points and badges
 4 weeks of challenges
Sounds fun to me!
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EXAMPLES OF CHALLENGES
 Logging in each day
 Commenting on a post
 Updating avatar & user profile
 Uploading images
 Treasure hunts
 Decoding puzzles
 Attending classes
 Completing assignments
 Liking an image post
Just to name a few!
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CORE PLUGINS
 BuddyPress - http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/
 Achievements - http://wordpress.org/plugins/achievements/
 Gravity Forms - http://www.gravityforms.com/
 28 plugins in total
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THE THEME
 Broke our normal workflow due to time constraints
 Dispatch theme from ThemeForest
 Recoded from scratch
 Made responsive
 The theme has since been removed from ThemeForest
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THE THEME

BUDDYPRESS
 Social network plugin
 Used Groups to create “Teams” of players
 Extended profiles
 Used a language file to change terminology
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http://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

TEAMS

TEAMS

TEAMS

PROFILES

PROFILES

PROFILES

ACHIEVEMENTS
 Written by Paul Gibbs – WordPress VIP
 Earn points by triggering events or receiving an award
 Hidden Achievements
 Team Achievements
 Limited Achievements (both time & number based)
 Leaderboard
 Pull requests back to the plugin for bug fixes/new features
One of the most maintained WordPress plugins!
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ACHIEVEMENTS

ACHIEVEMENTS

ACHIEVEMENTS

ACHIEVEMENTS

LEADERBOARD

MODERATOR ROLES
 Add users
 Moderate comments
 Moderate images
 Create challenges/achievements
 Award challenges/achievements to players
These guys keep everything ticking over!
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STATS
 147 Players
 17 Admins/Moderators
 82 Challenges/Achievements
 1141 Comments
 464 Images Uploaded
The students loved it!
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THANKS ALOT
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