---
title: Badges
description: Create badges that members earn automatically, with optional points.
url: "https://truecommunitypro.com/docs/badges/"
updated: "2026-10-09"
category: "Pro: Gamification"
---

# Badges

**Pro feature:** This page needs TrueCommunity Pro.

Go to **Gamification Pro → Badges** and click **Add New Badge**.

## Set up the badge

1. Enter the **badge name** as the title, and a short description.
2. Optional: set a **featured image** as the badge picture.
3. In **Badge settings**, fill in:

| Field | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Icon** | An emoji shown when the badge has no image |
| **Reward** | Points paid when a member earns the badge. Use 0 if the badge itself is the reward. |
| **Secret badge** | Hide the badge until someone earns it — a nice surprise |

[![Badge settings](https://truecommunitypro.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tc-admin-badge-edit.webp)](https://truecommunitypro.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tc-admin-badge-edit.webp)
Badge settings

## Decide how it is earned

Under **Earn this badge if…** there are two boxes:

- **ALL of these must happen** — every condition here must be met
- **ANY one of these happens** — just one condition here is enough

The badge is given when **all** conditions in the first box are met, **or** any one in the second box. Leave a box empty to skip it.

For each condition, choose **What must happen?** (an activity), and where needed **how many times** and **which** course, lesson or group.

Click **+ Add condition** to add more, then **Publish**.

### Examples

| Badge | Conditions |
| --- | --- |
| First Steps | ALL: Completed a lesson × 1 |
| Social Butterfly | ALL: Published a post × 10 **and** Left a comment × 25 |
| Graduate | ANY: Completed a course "Design 101" **or** Completed a course "Design 201" |

Members earn badges automatically. They get a notification, and the points are added to their balance.

## See who has a badge

Go to **Gamification Pro → Badge Participants**. Choose a badge to see everyone who earned it and when. You can take a badge back — the points it paid are removed too.