The WordPress.com Reader profile shows your activity, including earned achievements, in-progress goals, your activity streak, and any streak freezes you’ve earned. This guide explains how to view your achievements, manage privacy, and control notifications.
Achievements are badges you earn by taking actions on WordPress.com, such as publishing posts, liking posts, commenting, and following blogs. Your Reader profile collects every achievement you’ve earned in one place.
Achievements are enabled automatically for all WordPress.com users. No plan or platform restrictions apply, and there is no setup required.
You access your achievements from the Reader sidebar.
- Log in to your WordPress.com account.
- In the admin bar at the top of your screen, click the reading glasses icon at the top right to open the Reader.
- In the Reader sidebar on the left, click Reader Profile.
- Click the Achievements tab.
You can also go directly to your achievements at wordpress.com/reader/users/me/achievements.
Your activity streak counts the consecutive days you take any of the following actions on WordPress.com:
- Publish a post.
- Like a post.
- Comment on a post.
- Like a comment.
- Follow a blog.
WordPress.com records your activity based on your primary site’s time zone. If your time zone differs from your primary site’s, your activity may count toward a different day than you expect.
The Longest Streak records your highest activity streak so far.
The activity streak is broader than the daily post streak. The daily post streak counts only published posts.
Streak freezes protect your activity streak if you miss a day.
After seven consecutive days of activity, you earn one streak freeze. You can hold a maximum of one streak freeze at a time. If you miss a day, your streak freeze is used automatically to keep your streak going.
Your Achievements page groups badges into three states:
Earned: Achievements you have already unlocked, with the date you unlocked each one.
In progress: Achievements you’re working toward, with a progress indicator showing how close you are to earning them.
Locked: Achievements that stay hidden until you meet the conditions to reveal them.
The Years of Service badge marks each anniversary of the date you signed up for WordPress.com.
Your Achievements page is private by default. Only you can see it unless you change this setting.
To make your Achievements page visible to other logged-in WordPress.com users:
- Open your Achievements page.
- Click the Achievement settings icon to the right of your activity streak.
- Turn on the “Public achievements” option.
When your Achievements page is public, other logged-in WordPress.com users can view it at https://wordpress.com/reader/users/{your-username}/achievements. Logged-out visitors are prompted to log in before they can see it.
Even when your Achievements page is public, the specific blog where you unlocked an achievement is never shown to other users.
You can turn off achievement notifications without affecting your achievements or your activity streak.
- Open your Achievements page.
- Click the Achievement settings icon to the right of your activity streak.
- Turn off the “Achievement notifications” option.
You will still earn achievements and maintain your activity streak when notifications are off. You will not receive a notification when something is unlocked.
If your activity streak did not update on a day you were active, check your primary blog’s time zone. WordPress.com records each action against the date in that time zone. An action you took late in your evening may have counted in the next day or the previous day, depending on where your primary blog is set.
To check or change your primary blog’s time zone, see Set your site’s language and timezone.
