WordPress currently drives 40 million websites, accounting for 40% of the world's total.
Although WordPress has a lot of imitators, the ecosystem of the platform has been very large and occupies an absolute dominant position. By 2021, there are 58000 plug-ins and 8000 sets of templates providing services on the platform, which is widely favored by SMEs, especially knowledge payment enterprises.
After the completion of the gamification design based on user research, enterprises need to implement it through existing tools. Here are some practical and experienced WordPress plug-ins, so that colleagues who build websites based on the WordPress framework can quickly practice gamification design.
Free gaming plug-in is one of the early plug-ins in the WordPress market. It allows the creation of medals and the creation of steps related to these achievements. Through this plug-in, enterprises can track the progress of users in achieving goals and create ranking lists. The plug-in experience is very intuitive.
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A free point management plug-in. It allows enterprises to create a comprehensive virtual economy and freely design the integral system required by enterprises. The plug-in allows users to buy and sell in website currency. It also has the unlocking function, that is, once a user reaches a specific point/level, the plug-in allows the user to unlock the next level of content. Add ons also allow businesses to add badges, leaderboards, and even payment integration. The gamification plug-in can help enterprises launch online campaign marketing (such as scratch cards, lottery games and other mini games, and can guide users to pay for redemption. The development documents of the plug-in are also relatively complete.
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One of the older paid plug-ins. The plug-in includes task, ranking, ranking, level and point design, which has a good reputation after being used by enterprises. The plug-in has been active so far, enjoying function updates in the form of subscription.
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CaptainUp It has always been considered as one of the most comprehensive plug-ins for gamification components on WordPress. It can be considered that it is no longer a plug-in but a gamification platform. The plug-in includes:
Gamification components: medals, levels, trophies, points, multi currencies, rewards Social components: user profile, user homepage, activity overview, sharing, leaderboard communication components: email, messages, notifications, custom pop ups, message data analysis components: game mechanism, user management, A/B test, rule engine, segmentation
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This is a plug-in only applicable to knowledge payment, and it is a closed source plug-in (API integration is not open). If your enterprise is looking for out of the box solutions in the market and does not want to spend time configuring, this is a good choice. The plug-in includes three modules: course presentation, gamification, and knowledge payment.
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It is a game based curriculum solution, which won the "Excellent Game based Platform" award of Gamification Europe in 2019. This plug-in is an excellent solution to assist enterprises in landing hybrid learning (gamification+education). If enterprises want to combine classroom or webinar courses in real life with tasks, online learning and specific tasks related to topics, they can consider using it. The plug-in comes with some preset achievements and suggestions to help enterprises start business faster. Through this plug-in, enterprises can also encourage team cooperation, set specific "homework" or tasks, and conventional game mechanisms related to progress and achievement.
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Gamipress The core plug-ins of are free, and only a few value-added add ons are charged, such as: progress tracking, restricted content, point purchase allowed, notification, progress correlation (task system), etc. When enterprises need more gamification design options, it is strongly recommended that enterprises (employees) study them. The service support of this plug-in is very rapid, and it is worth studying in depth.
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Before adding gamification components to our own WordPress website, we still need to start with reliable strategies and matching gamification designs. Again, only valuable game design and application on tools can really attract users to participate in it, and metaphysics is forbidden.
