Community Challenges

Community Challenges let your entire membership work toward a shared goal — similar to Pokémon GO’s community events. Every member’s qualifying actions contribute to a single global progress bar. When the community hits the target, everyone earns bonus points.

How It Differs from Individual Challenges

Individual challenges are per-member: each person has their own progress bar and wins or loses independently. Community challenges have one progress bar shared across all participants. No member can complete it alone.

Creating a Community Challenge

1. Go to WB Gamification → Community Challenges → Add New.
2. Set a title and description visible to members.
3. Choose the action that contributes to progress (any registered gamification action, e.g., bp_activity_update).
4. Set the target count — total number of qualifying actions needed.
5. Set a deadline (date and time).
6. Set the bonus points awarded to every member on completion.
7. Click Publish.

The CommunityChallengeEngine hooks into the event bus. Each time the chosen action fires, it increments the global counter by one.

What Members See

Members see the challenge title, description, current global progress, target, and time remaining. You can display this with the [wb_gam_community_challenge] shortcode or the Challenges Gutenberg block.

On Completion

When the global counter reaches the target before the deadline, every member who made at least one contributing action receives the bonus points. The challenge status changes to Completed.

If the deadline passes before the target is reached, the challenge expires without awarding bonus points.

Community Challenges are enabled by default. To turn the feature off site-wide, set the community_challenges key to false in the wb_gam_features option.