ESM Rewards & Benefits

Description

ESM Rewards & Benefits helps site administrators introduce a practical points and member-benefit program without requiring technical knowledge or an external service.

Start with the basics:

• Create member-friendly point types with names and symbols you choose.
• Decide which member activities earn rewards.
• Organize earning rules into campaigns.
• Keep a traceable reward history instead of overwriting old balances.
• Offer discounts, vouchers, invitations, access rights, delivery benefits or other member benefits.
• Preview important member-facing wording before saving.
• Show balances, history, campaigns and benefits in compatible content areas.
• Keep reward data on the site unless an optional connected service is explicitly enabled later.

Designed for your site first

The normal workflow is entirely about your own members, points, campaigns and benefits. Internal technical identifiers are not shown to members and do not need to be understood by administrators.

The plugin works independently. No external account, wallet or cloud service is required for the core reward program. If an existing compatible ESM reward module is already active on the site, the administrator can explicitly connect to it without creating a second reward ledger.

Optional ecosystem expansion

At the very bottom of Settings there is a separate, collapsed information area describing optional ESM ecosystem expansion. Opening that area does not connect anything or transmit data.

If a compatible existing ESM reward provider is detected, the Settings accordion first explains how to connect this plugin as the reward management UI while leaving the existing canonical ledger in place. No reward rows are copied or merged. A future external connection provider may additionally offer global reward, wallet, Web3 or verified-service capabilities; any external connection must remain an explicit administrator choice and explain data use before information is transmitted.

The optional information area also introduces compatible independent ESM public modules such as ESM Social and ESM Consumer Evaluation.

Built-in activities

Administrators can create earning rules for common activities such as:

• A new member joins.
• A member signs in.
• Content is published.
• A member comment is approved.
• A verified custom activity supplied by another compatible service.

The administrator sees friendly activity names. Internal platform-neutral activity codes are used only for integrations.

Frontend tools

Each Points, Campaigns and Benefits administration screen shows the appropriate shortcode next to each item with a Copy button. The same screen explains how to paste the shortcode into a page, post or shortcode-enabled widget area.

General shortcodes:

• [esm_rewards_balance]
• [esm_rewards_history]
• [esm_rewards_campaigns]
• [esm_rewards_benefits]
• [esm_rewards_panel view="balance"]

Item-specific examples:

• [esm_rewards_balance id="12"]
• [esm_rewards_history id="12"]
• [esm_rewards_campaigns id="5"]
• [esm_rewards_benefits id="8"]

The public reward views use responsive card layouts for balances, activity history, campaigns and benefits. The included dynamic block can also show Balance, History, Campaigns or Benefits.

Automatic updates

The plugin does not include a custom updater or alternate update server. When distributed through WordPress.org, the standard plugin-list automatic-update controls and eligible update packages are provided by WordPress core and WordPress.org.

Privacy

The plugin stores reward history, reward activities and benefit claims when those features are used. These records may be associated with member accounts.

Version 1.0.0 does not transmit reward records to an external ESM service. It can optionally read an existing ESM reward ledger already present on the same installation after an administrator explicitly connects it; the existing ledger remains the single source of truth and is not copied. The plugin integrates with the platform privacy export/erase tools available in WordPress.

Technical details