You could use something like this: https://gist.github.com/gabrielmerovingi/ebf588c2c0e860c5f7898dfa8e3655d5
It goes into your theme’s functions.php file and all you got to do is to adjust the ID of the page where you want your users to be redirected to when they have run out of points.
Note that it will not enforce this redirection if: Someone is not logged in or if myCRED has been disabled.

myCRED has no built-in capability adjustments for WordPress. Initially I was thinking of connecting things with roles but then I realized there are a lot of different approaches for how user capabilities are handled in WordPress sites and building something that would accomodate / work with all of these would be a headache.

But that does not mean it is not impossible. In 1.3.2 I included two custom actions in myCRED: mycred_user_got_demoted and mycred_user_got_promoted. These fire when a users rank changes. Demoted is triggered when the new rank the user gained has a lower minimum point requirement then their current rank while promoted is triggered for the complete opposite.

You could use these hooks to execute custom code like changing a users role in WP. Just make sure the user in question is not an admin.

I want to use the points system as a reward system that allows users to spend them on guest posts. I set the reward for posts as negative hoping that any insufficient balance would dissalow the user from submitting the post, but instead the mycred balance just went negative.

Is there any way to have the plugin check whether there are enough points to complete the action and if not, then dissalow it?

As another thought for the future of the plugin, if there was some way to develop posting credits as a secondary type of currency. For example, 100 mycred points are worth 1 post credit, and the user can spend the credit to submit a guest post. I think that would be an in-demand feature and one I’d be willing to pay for.

Thanks much,
Matt

If you don’t have enough points, you won’t have the rank required to post articles. Once you post and lose -100 points, you may drop in rank and have to earn it back. It was not clear from the tutorial however, whether the rank system can change user privileges or if it is just a badge system.

Thanks again!

Great plugin! Out of the box this has pretty much everything I was looking for! One question I did have though (sort of related to this topic) was if there was a way to prevent users from having negative points. I want to set the minimum at 0 points or something like that, so when a user tries to perform a task that has a hook which deducts points, it won’t let them do it if they don’t have sufficient points. Essentially 0 would be the lowest amount of points, and if a user needs more to perform the task, they would need to purchase more.

Thanks for the help!