# Grant a badge to individual users manually

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-a-badge-to-individual-users-manually/29426
**Category:** Site Management
**Tags:** badges, how-to
**Created:** [May 29, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-a-badge-to-individual-users-manually/29426 "2015-05-29T18:38:57Z")
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#### Post date: [May 29, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/grant-a-badge-to-individual-users-manually/29426/1 "2015-05-29T18:38:57Z")

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> 🔖 This is a guide for manually granting a custom badge to individual users on Discourse.
> 
> 🙋 Required user level: Administrator

In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and manually grant a custom badge to individual users. A new “Scholar” badge will be created as an example.

> ⚠ This guide is only applicable for custom badges. To manually grant one of Discourse’s built in badges, you will need to follow: [Bulk Award a badge to a set of users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/award-a-badge-to-a-set-of-users/138694)

## Create a new custom badge

Create a new custom badge from the **Admin \> Community \> Badges** page by clicking on the “New” button.

 ![new_badge](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/6/9/5695258324cee028a6ee38ffe8a6fb91c66137f1.png)

1. Name the badge (e.g., “Scholar”).
2. Set the badge type (e.g., “Gold”).
3. Select a badge image, either a [Font Awesome icon](https://fontawesome.com/search?o=r&m=free) (e.g., Font Awesome icon `graduation-cap`) or an uploaded image.

**Extra details about image size if using an uploaded image:**

> [@Badge image dimensions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/badge-image-dimensions/186142/3):
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> The largest badge image we display is 64x64, so double that for retina displays.
> 
> To avoid blurry images, I would recommend 128x128 as a minimum.
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> This should give you ideal results on all devices.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-17 at 7.42.54 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/b/c/4bc4048847218f076650d9a4f64e5db4e3dd31e1.jpeg)

## Grant the badge

When it’s time to grant a user the badge, navigate to their user admin page and click on “Edit Badges” button.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-17 at 7.44.09 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/4/4/344ba6d5f5471c93fabc661b25fec690a5a16c69.jpeg)

Select the badge you want to grant to the user. In our case the badge is “Scholar”. Now click on “Grant”.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-17 at 7.57.49 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/7/e/97e0ab98c7ac4e1cbee9d847a8b8a37a2df5457b.jpeg)

If you visit the user’s profile page and select the “Badges” tab you will see the newly granted “Scholar” badge!

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-17 at 7.52.08 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/8/6/c862707c23848e7a7de0c9be4cfa5b941b4e1566.jpeg)

> Last edited by @pedro 2024-07-12T04:55:24Z
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> > **Check document**
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> > Perform check on document:

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