Fenton Digital Badges WordPress Plugin

Q: What CSV format is required?

Columns: email (required), name , evidence , expires (YYYY-MM-DD). A header row is optional — a single line like you@example.com,Your Name works.

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About Fenton Digital Badges

Issue, manage, and display Open Badges 1.0 credentials from your WordPress site.

Fenton Digital Badges lets you issue Open Badges 1.0 credentials from WordPress. Define an issuing organization, create badge classes, award them in bulk via CSV, and give earners public attestation pages they can share or add to LinkedIn.

Features

Configure an issuing organization
Create badges
Issue badges, with email notifications to the recipient
Public attestation pages show the badge and links to share it
Admin views over the list of badges, assertions, and basic statistics

You can add templates for the badge pages using /wp-admin/site-editor.php?p=%2Ftemplate on your site.

Click “Add Template”
Select “Single item: Badge” or “Archive: Badge”

To control the layout of /badges/assertion/{uid}/, create a Page, optionally add [fendigibadge_attestation], then choose that page under Badges Settings. Edit the page’s template in the Site Editor. Themes can also override the markup with fendigibadge/attestation.php.

Shortcodes

[fendigibadge_attestation] — certificate markup on /badges/assertion/{uid}/ when using a page template

Public endpoints

Issuer JSON: /ob/issuer.json
Badge class JSON: /ob/badges/{id}.json
Assertion JSON: /ob/assertions/{uid}.json
Attestation page: /badges/assertion/{uid}/
Claim name: /badges/claim-name/{token}/
Unsubscribe: /badges/unsubscribe/{token}/

Screenshots

Badges settings — configure your issuing organization.

Issue badges — award credentials from a CSV upload.

Attestation page — public certificate view for earners.

Frequently Asked Questions

What CSV format is required?

Columns: email (required), name, evidence, expires (YYYY-MM-DD). A header row is optional — a single line like [email protected],Your Name works.

Are recipient emails stored?

No, not on assertions. Emails are salted and hashed for the assertion identity and looked up via a separate HMAC. The only plaintext emails kept are addresses that opted out of badge notifications via the unsubscribe link.

How does an earner add their name to a badge?

If a badge is issued without a name, the issue email includes a one-time link to add it. The link asks the earner to confirm the name before saving, then stops working. The attestation page still verifies the badge even if no name is ever added, showing a generic completion message instead.

How do I stop badge notification emails?

Each issue email ends with a “Stop all future notifications” link. Using it adds that address to an unsubscribe list (only when the address still matches at least one badge). Later issue notifications for that address are ignored.

Does this support Open Badges 2.0 / 3.0?

This release implements Open Badges 1.0 JSON endpoints and assertions.

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Changelog

0.1.37

Added assertion filters to Badges Assertions — filter by badge type, search by recipient email (hashed lookup; no email is sent or stored), and choose items per page.
Added Badges Stats with issued, claimed, and claimed % summary boxes and a per–badge-type breakdown table.

0.1.36

Removed the public “find my badges” email lookup form and its /badges/find/ endpoint, [fendigibadge_find] shortcode, and Find badges page setting. This was the only public, unauthenticated endpoint that could trigger an email; badge notification emails are now only sent when a WordPress user issues a badge. The one-time name-claim link and unsubscribe link are unaffected.
Added an Earn URL field to badges (the page where someone can go to earn the badge). It’s shown as a link wherever [fendigibadge] renders the badge, and as a button on the public attestation page.