Badges are a great way of visually linking related content to help your users find what they need. Here's how to set them up.
First, head to the cog in the top right hand corner of the page and select Settings. On this page, scroll down to the Structure header where you will find the Badges tile.
Associate a badge to a group
In the editor, you will also find the option to link the badge to a specific group on your community. Note that this will cause the badge to appear on all content posted by members of the group you have selected.
Moreover, it will be greyed out in the authoring edit page when members of the group are creating content, showing them that their content will be badged but stopping the user from disabling the badge. Make sure that you’re happy for this to happen before you save the badge.
Reordering
It is possible to add as many badges as you like to your site. If your list of badges is getting rather long, you may wish to reorganise them to ensure that certain badges appear at the top of the Badges tab in the authoring sidebar.
To do this, drag the badges up or down using the slider icon to the left of the badge name. This will reorder them automatically so no need to worry about remembering to hit save!
The Premium badge
The Premium badge will always appear at the top of the Badges Settings page, where you will be presented with the same configuration options as the regular custom badges.
This badge will be added to all content that is marked as premium, which means that users must be signed-in to your site in order to be able to access it and is an effective means of driving registration to your site.
If you would prefer the premium badge not to be displayed on content that is marked as premium on your site, you can configure this from your Authoring Settings.
To see the badge in action, head to an item of content and select the 'Quick Edit' button at the top of the page, where you will find the option to mark the content as premium.
Any questions? Let us know as support@zapnito.com or drop a comment below this article.
Comments
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Is there a way to create walled-off premium content on a site that already requires every user to be logged in to access any content?
Hey Bob. You can achieve this by configuring the groups on your site to restrict access to premium content to solely those that you wish to be able to view it, using the 'Access premium content' ability.
Let me know if you have any questions around how to set this up?
Got it. This is VERY helpful. It is appreciated. Is there any way to "wall-off" a premium post to a small subset of users and then "wall-off" a different premium post to a different subset of users?
Unfortunately it's not possible to do this on a post-by-post basis. A group can either access all of the premium content on the site or none of the premium content on the site.
You could instead utilise private rooms to wall-off content, and invite the users that you would like to be able to view the content to the room as members/contributors.
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