Discourse Cakeday

[Discourse]

	Summary	Discourse Cakeday decorates user avatars with a celebratory emoji on the anniversary of their joining day, and (optionally) on their birthday too.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-cakeday
	Install Guide	How to install plugins in Discourse

As this is an official plugin maintained by the Discourse team, support, bug, ux, and feature requests can be made in the respective categories here on Meta, and tagged with the appropriate plugin tag. Click on a link below to get one started.

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Enabling Cakeday

The Cakeday plugin is default enabled but can be disabled/enabled from its settings, accessed from your admin/plugins page:

Features

• Emoji displayed on posts, usercards, and user pages for forum joining anniversary and/or birthday: (Emojis displayed can also be customized)

• Browsable directory of anniversaries and birthdays at /cakeday/anniversaries/today

• Automatically uses join date for anniversaries, and adds an optional Date of Birth field on each user’s Preferences->Profile page (limited to Month and Date)

Settings

• See all relevant site settings by searching your admin settings for “cakeday”

Name	Description
cakeday enabled	Show cakeday emoji[s] beside the user’s name on the date they joined Discourse
cakeday emoji	The emoji[s] that will be shown beside the user’s name on the date that they joined Discourse. Multiple emojis can be specified by: smile
cakeday birthday enabled	Show birthday emoji[s] beside the user’s name on their birthday
cakeday birthday emoji	The emoji[s] that will be shown beside the user’s name on their birthday. Multiple emojis can be specified by: smile

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Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-06-18T15:15:28Z

Check document

Perform check on document:

[Ivan_Rapekas]

Hi, just for notice, staged user has a birthday badge, but it doesn’t appear in the list of birthdays (only regular users are shown)

[JamesTheClarke]

Is it possible to manually edit (or ideally upload a CSV file) the anniversary field?

Our main issue is that we migrated our community from a very old platform (enjin) to Discourse. We managed to scrape most of the data including our old join dates but obviously when we created the new Discourse users their “join dates” now no longer correspond with when they actually joined our community back on enjin.

[Firepup650 (Firepup Sixfifty)]

@JamesTheClarke

Is it possible to manually edit

If you have access to rails, this works (Though is completely manual):

UPDATE users SET created_at = '2023-05-03 13:56:41' WHERE username_lower = 'username';

[patrickemin]

@Discourse

forum joining anniversary

Hi, in my “forum joining anniversary” list I don’t have anything in /cakeday/anniversaries/all?month=3, though most of members joined that month, any idea? Thanks.

[JammyDodger]

Hmm. Possibly the month is for this year, and no one celebrated an anniversary yet?

[patrickemin]

Yes but this URL (/cakeday/anniversaries/all) should show all registrations anniversaries, not birthdays.
For birthdays, it’s this URL: /cakeday/birthdays/all

[JammyDodger]

I meant that it could populate on the month when their first anniversary is celebrated (that is, a year after people joined the forum). The first day you join isn’t technically an anniversary. So if ‘March’ in this case is ‘March 2024’ and that’s the year they all joined then no one would be celebrating an anniversary yet.

I haven’t looked at the code though, so this could be conjecture.

[patrickemin]

Ok I am probably misled by the “All” tab:

[NateDhaliwal]

Is there some API or way I can grab the birthdays and anniversaries for today?

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Yes,

https://meta.discourse.org/cakeday/birthdays/today.json

https://meta.discourse.org/cakeday/anniversaries/today.json

[NateDhaliwal]

Thanks a lot for that!