Searching for the best WordPress gamification plugins to boost your site’s engagement?
WordPress gamification is the idea of applying elements of game playing to your WordPress site, such as point scoring, leaderboards, awards, quiz results sharing, and so on.
Obviously, WordPress doesn’t include these types of features in the core. But with the help of a WordPress gamification plugin, you can easily gamify WordPress and encourage your users to engage more with your site.
In this post, we’ve curated our picks for the six best gamification plugins for WordPress.
This list includes plugins that will work for pretty much any WordPress site, along with some plugins that offer dedicated integrations for specific use cases such as BuddyPress gamification or LearnPress gamification.
Let’s dig in!
Six Best Gamification Plugins for WordPress
- GamiPress – General WordPress Gamification
- myCred – General WordPress Gamification
- MyRewards – WooCommerce Gamification
- Quiz and Survey Master – Gamified Quizzes and Leaderboards
- BadgeOS – General WordPress Gamification
- WP Optin Wheel – Gamified Email Optin Forms
GamiPress – General WordPress Gamification
GamiPress is one of the most popular and well-rated plugins for gamification in WordPress, with a 4.9-star rating on over 330 reviews at WordPress.org.
In a nutshell, it lets you award users with digital points for performing different types of actions on your site (with integrations for pretty much every popular plugin – more on that in a second).
Based on these points, you can further reward users with gamified elements such as the following:
You can also use these points to unlock more tangible rewards. For example, you could give someone a discount at your WooCommerce store if they have a certain number of points.
GamiPress also has dedicated integration plugins for most popular WordPress plugins where you might want to add gamification. Here’s a list of some relevant integrations (but this is not the complete list):
- Social community plugins – BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, and PeepSo.
- LMS plugins – LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, LearnPress, MasterStudy LMS, and more.
- Membership plugins – MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro, Ultimate Member, and more.
- Forum plugins – bbPress, wpForo, Simple:Press, and more.
- eCommerce plugins – WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads (EDD).
- Form plugins – Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Fluent Forms, Formidable Forms, Forminator, and more.
- Event plugins – The Event Calendar, Modern Events Calendar, and more.
Again, that is not the complete list – you can view that here. And even if GamiPress lacks a dedicated
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This article was written by Colin Newcomer and originally published on WPKube.