There’s a special kind of satisfaction in seeing your progress add up.
The first post you publish. The first comment that turns into a conversation. The day you realize you’ve shown up all week—not because you had to, but because you wanted to.
Now WordPress.com has a place to celebrate those moments: Achievements.
Achievements are about making the small acts of building, publishing, reading, and connecting on WordPress.com visible.
You can find your Achievements page in your Reader profile, or go straight there:
A new home for your milestones
Your Achievements page is a record that celebrates your efforts on WordPress.com, from publishing posts to joining conversations, helping you feel recognized for your ongoing activity.
You’ll see:
- Unlocked achievements for milestones you’ve already reached.
- Locked achievements you can work toward next.
- Progress indicators for achievements that build over time.
- Activity streaks for showing up day after day.
Some achievements are simple milestones. Others are a little more unexpected. We won’t spoil all the surprises, but if you enjoy small quests, secret badges, and oddly specific internet accomplishments, you may want to poke around.
Meet your activity streak
Your activity streak grows when you do things that help make WordPress.com feel alive: publish a post, leave a comment, like a post or a comment, or follow a site.
Keep it going day after day, and your streak grows with you. After seven consecutive days, you’ll earn a streak freeze. If you miss a day, your freeze will automatically protect your streak.
Tiny bit of magic. Tiny bit of mercy.
You’re in control
Your Achievements page is private by default. If you want to share it, you can make it visible to other logged-in WordPress.com users from the settings menu on the page.
You can turn off achievement notifications if you prefer to unlock things quietly; you’ll still earn achievements and maintain your activity streak, just without the alerts.
Start exploring your achievements
WordPress.com has always been about showing up: writing, reading, commenting, following, liking, sharing, and building a little corner of the web that feels like yours.
Achievements are a fun way to recognize that effort. They’re not homework. They’re not a leaderboard. They’re just a friendly nudge, a little confetti, and a reminder that the small things you do here add up.
It’s another way WordPress.com helps turn publishing and participation into a habit you can build in your own corner of the web.
So go take a look. You may have already unlocked more than you think.
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Thanks! This is a surprise, a wonderful surprise!
These flipped my lid. 😂 I posted a picture of those in my feed asking the community, “what are these?” 😜
I wondered what these were, when a bunch of notifications appeared yesterday in the Jetpack app!
This explains a lot… 😝
These remind me of achievements that I get on Xbox. Definitely a nudge to go farther in a game, same with a blog.
This is a fun feature, thank you. But some of the Achievements are locked, when I know that I have accomplished them, for example mapping a custom domain and using custom CSS. How to resolve?
Thank you for the kind words!
Most achievements are not applied retroactively, so if you completed the actions required to unlock one before its release, those actions don’t count toward unlocking or progressing it.
The effort required to calculate all the new achievements for all WordPress.com users and sites would be massive, and there are also inherent risks of mistakes when running large tasks on huge amounts of data, something we preferred to avoid for what is ultimately a lighthearted feature.
Thanks Jacopo for your prompt reply and explanation. Sure thing, no worries. At least my 17 years with WordPress is acknowledged 🙂
Thank you. Good for posterity.
Thank you! Unlocking achievements adds such a lovely layer of motivation. There is a lot of negativity about these achievements on WP. I personally think it’s a wonderful way to keep track of progress, assuming that people are interested in progress.
I wrote this post. I am personally committed to spread the word and celebrate any kind of achievement https://shortprose.blog/2026/05/21/the-un-has-nothing-on-poetry-a-note-on-world-domination-literary-revelations/
How funny!
Love the new feature.
This is a nice added feature. Thanks.
somehow i can add only one site to the recommended blogs list.
This is a silly feature, and I would have preferred to be opted out rather than opted in. I’ve had a WordPress site for 14 years. Why would I suddenly need it to be gamified? Also, when I click on one of the pointless notifications in the Jetpack iOS app, there is a link to “See all of your achievements.” When I click on that, I get “Error Loading Post.”
Hi there! I’m sorry to hear the new achievements weren’t a positive experience for you. It certainly wasn’t our intention to make things frustrating.
We tried to strike a balance between visibility and noise, especially for existing users. Achievements themselves are a long-standing WordPress.com feature, with per-site notification settings that have been available for a long time. With the new achievements, we also added a global setting to turn all achievement notifications off at once.
At the moment, the Achievements page and its settings are only available in the browser, which doesn’t share login sessions with the app. That may be why you ran into that error.
A nice idea, but not quite complete for me: I’ve been featured (twice) in Freshly Pressed but that achievement isn’t unlocked for me. It would be good to have it added, please!
Hi there!
Most achievements are not applied retroactively, so if you completed the actions required to unlock one before its release, those actions don’t count toward unlocking or progressing it.
The effort required to calculate all the new achievements for all WordPress.com users and sites would be massive, and there are also inherent risks of mistakes when running large tasks on huge amounts of data, something we preferred to avoid for what is ultimately a lighthearted feature.
Thank you for your quick response.
I understand what you say, but it does feel a little illogical to me. My ‘achievements’ as marked cover the whole thirteen year period during which I have been blogging with WordPress, so these are clearly being applied retrospectively. I guess I’ll have to hope that I get featured again for Freshly Pressed!
I love it. The achievements page is like a video game to earn badges (if that make sense). My 12 “Years of service” badge is nice!
I will likely get a beating for this, as I seem to be the only one here having a not so positive opinion, but seriously, some of those achievements make no sense, like the Necromancer achievement. If I do write a blog entry, why shall I keep it as a draft for over one year (!), before I do finally publish it? I mean, if I have written something that I want to publish then I do publish it, end of story, but I am not going to wait for more than a year. Some other achievements are also IMPOSSIBLE to achieve, for example the Grase-Free achievement. Right, as if a small website owner like myself would ever have one of their blog entries published on WordPress’ own Freshly Pressed, I mean, this is reserved only for the really big guys, you know, websites owned by big companies that have a lot of influence. Or the World Domination achievement, where you need to have accumulated visitors from 150+ countries. Don’t you know that in many countries the people are either too poor to even have a daily supply of food or that WordPress is even blocked in their countries? There are 195 nations in the world today and many of those have people that are happy if they can just find food for one day or their governments do not even allow them to enter WordPress at all, except if they maybe have the ability to use a VPN, but those VPN’s do not give you their true nation from which they come from, so mostly those VPN’s will say that your visitors are coming from the USA or any other big nation of which you likely have already received visitors. The proof? Well, I’ve had my share of visitors from the Republic of Korea already, but since the existence of my website, talking about more than nine years now, not a single visitor from their neighbors in the north, go figure. Many of my Chinese friends also can just enter my website by using a VPN, as WordPress is officially banned there as well.
The system can also be easily misused. Accumulate more than 500.000 words with all of your blog posts, to achieve the Librarian achievement? Theoretically, I could just copy the text of one of my stories that I do publish on my website for free and put that into one of my blog entries. With my largest epic having already accumulated more than 1.9 million words (no joke!) I could just take 1-2 chapters, copy the text inside a blog entry, post that and I got that achievement. Or the Clean Slate achievement. No problem, just create 21 drafts and then delete them all, without even publishing them, as for this one published and even deleted drafts count. And if I am not mistaken, to achieve the Vanity Plate achievement I would need to have a paid subscription first, due to the fact that I need a custom domain to achieve that, as if there is a secret interest of WordPress behind this one. You are more than welcome to correct me if I am wrong in this.
Hello there! No beating necessary, we received plenty of critical feedback already. 🙂
We wrote the new achievements to be primarily humorous, and give our users some levity during the heavy times we are living.
We are well aware that some achievements are hard to achieve, some nearly impossible, and some easily unlockable by “cheating”. But then again, unlocking an achievement doesn’t give anything more than bragging rights. There’s no reward, no advantage, they are just little notifications to acknowledge weird actions, that we hope will surprise or even delight our users.
As you said, it’s really easy to unlock the Librarian achievement by pasting any (very) long content into your blog, but… what would be the point? Wouldn’t it be more interesting if at some point you received an unexpected notification telling you that you wrote 500,000 words on your blog?
Hello and thank you for not beating me up. 😊
Sure, you are correct, if I would achieve one of those achievements via cheating it would be quite stupid indeed and would not feel special. I guess hunting those down feels nice for some people. I, for instance, have already achieved the Early Bird and am close of getting my Night Owl achievement, as well as the Marathon Blogger, while I received the Time Traveler achievement by accident. Sure, it can be funny, but I personally do not really hunt for those. I am happy though that WordPress is well aware of the fact that some of those achievements are almost impossible to get. Yet, to be fair, this is also the case with some of the achievements in some video games, like an achievement in Tropico 3 from 2008, which can only be achieved while playing multiplayer, yet if you play this on a computer with no internet connection at all…
Anyway, there is just one thing I am wondering about: Those achievements are “new”, alright, but actually, some of the achievements have already been there for a long time, just now WordPress decided to add a lot of more, right? Because the achievement of having 1337 posts, which I did achieve already quite some time ago, as I am normally posting daily, has been popping up a long time ago, so there have already been a few achievements in the past and it is nothing really “new” for WordPress in its actual meaning. Anyway, we’ll see where this is heading to, I guess, especially when it comes to all of those secret achievements, where nobody knows actually about how to get them, so this can only happen by accident.
You are correct: achievements on WordPress.com have been around for many years. We added over 50 new ones on top of the original handful. The “new” feature is the Achievements screen as well as the activity streak that includes a broader range of actions compared to the original daily post streak (which remains available).
Almost all achievements are achievable by everyone. The difficulty is relative, some users might find some easier to unlock than other users, but we think we have been fair. Achievement hunters might need to work hard to get them all, regular folks like me might just be happy to get a funny one every once in a while, and everyone else can just turn notifications off entirely and never be bothered by them again.
Speaking of Tropico, videogames were (obviously!) a big inspiration. I really wanted to add a viral achievement like “Six Degrees of Schafer” from Brütal Legend, which unlocked by playing against legendary game developer Tim Schafer, or against someone who played against him. Ultimately we decided against it because, well, we are not really legendary game developers, are we? 😅
To answer your question: No, you are not legendary game developers. 😊 You know, I do have a suggestion how to make the achievements better: You see, there is something that I have witnessed at the Vampire Blogger achievement. It says that one can get it by publishing 25 posts in a row, but they must be posted all in the dark. Yet, what does that mean? Is there a certain time during which the counter for this achievement is active, like starting from 10 PM or something like this? Because during summer the sun goes down much later than in winter, where it is already completely dark at 5 PM where I live (Berlin, Germany). So, I think some of the descriptions of some achievements could maybe rewritten, to make it clearer what one needs to achieve. The same goes for the Necromancer achievement: It says “over one year”. So, not just 365 days, which would be an exact year, but at least 366 days, because of the word “over”? You see, this is not entirely clear, so WordPress might update some of the achievements’ descriptions, to make users better understand what they need to do to accomplish those. 😊