Sigilet - Open Badges Issuer & Digital Certificates

Issue digital badges from the WordPress site you already run. Your recipients get a credential they can add to LinkedIn, download, and show an employer, and anyone can check it on your domain. Sigilet suits training providers, membership associations, universities and employers who award certificates or recognition and need those awards to be verifiable. No badge platform sits in the middle, there is no fee per badge, and your recipients never create an account. Badges follow Open Badges 2.0 (OB 2.0), so any conformant wallet or verifier can read them. Sigilet Pro integrates with both LifterLMS and Tutor LMS. How it works

1. Create a badge type: a title, what it is awarded for, and an image.
2. Award it to an email address. Issue it now, email the recipient, or hold it as a draft until launch day.
3. The recipient gets a public verification page on your domain, a LinkedIn share button, and a download.

What you get Badge types and a three-mode award workflow, twelve ready-made badge emblems to pick from, hosted verification on your own domain, one-click revoke and un-revoke, optional expiry dates, Badge Issuer and Badge Viewer roles so you can let someone award badges without handing over the rest of WordPress, an "Award a badge" link beside each person on your Users screen, a [sigilet_badges] shortcode so recipients can show their own badges, and a private sharing panel for each recipient. Downloaded badges carry their own proof inside the image file, so they work in any OB 2.0 wallet rather than being just a picture. Sigilet never stores a recipient's email address. Each award keeps a one-way hash instead, so two badges held by the same person cannot be linked from the public record. Works with your LMS (Sigilet Pro) Sigilet Pro awards a badge automatically when a student completes a course in LifterLMS or Tutor LMS. Map a course to a badge once on the badge screen, and every completion after that issues a verifiable Open Badge rather than a PDF certificate. Re-completing a course does not issue a second badge, and un-completing one does not revoke a badge already earned. This plugin ships no part of that code. Installing it will not add anything to your LMS. Screenshots are below. The Sigilet for WordPress page carries the technical detail: the OB 2.0 JSON Sigilet publishes, how badge baking works, how the privacy hashing works, and the server requirements. Pro Two features are part of a separate Sigilet Pro package and are not part of this download:

• CSV bulk award, which imports a spreadsheet of recipients and sends the awards through a paced background email queue.
• Automatic awards on LMS course completion, for LifterLMS and Tutor LMS.

1.7.0

• Pro only: badges are now awarded automatically when a student completes a course in LifterLMS or Tutor LMS. Map one or more courses to a badge on the badge edit screen, and every completion after that issues that badge to the student's account email. Re-completing a course does not issue a second badge; un-completing one does not revoke a badge already earned, because revoking a credential is a statement that it was wrongly issued and stays a deliberate action. Courses finished before the mapping was switched on are not awarded automatically - a separate counted action backfills them, and shows the number of people it will award before it does anything.
• The course-completion awarding above is Pro only: the WordPress.org build carries no part of it, no metabox, no course mapping and no disabled control. The three items below it are in the free build.
• Twelve ready-made badge emblems you can pick in the badge builder, instead of uploading your own artwork. Free.
• A new [sigilet_badges] shortcode that shows a logged-in recipient every badge they hold on your site, with a link to each verification page. Free.
• An "Award a badge" link beside each person on the Users screen, so you no longer retype the address of someone who already has an account. Free.

1.6.7

• Renamed so people looking for an Open Badges issuer can find it. The plugin is now listed as "Sigilet - Open Badges Issuer & Digital Certificates" instead of just "Sigilet". No functional change: same code, same settings, same badges, and the same plugin folder, so nothing needs reconfiguring. Earlier releases are listed in changelog.txt, bundled with the plugin.