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!