BuddyPress integration - overview
You can show jobs and applications inside your BuddyPress community: profile tabs for employers and candidates, a job board for each group, activity posts, notification-bell alerts, member directory filters, and group-admin moderation. You can also give paying members cheaper job posts.
BuddyPress must be active for the integrations below, except tiered credit pricing, which also works with Paid Memberships Pro or MemberPress alone.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”| You can | Needs | Page |
|---|---|---|
| Add My Jobs (employers) and My Career (candidates) tabs to member profiles | BuddyPress | Profile tabs |
| Give each group its own job board and a Jobs tab | BuddyPress Groups, and the Group Job Boards switch | Group-scoped job boards |
| Post to the activity stream when a pending job is approved and when a candidate is hired | BuddyPress Activity component | Activity stream entries |
| Alert employers to new applications and candidates to status changes in the notification bell | BuddyPress, with Profile Tabs on | Notifications |
| Filter the member directory by Open to work and Hiring | BuddyPress Members component | Member directory filters |
| Charge a different credit cost by member type, Paid Memberships Pro level or MemberPress membership | A saved price matrix | Tiered credit pricing |
| Let group admins and moderators approve or reject jobs on their group’s board | Group Job Boards on | Group-scoped moderation |
Turn integrations on or off
Section titled “Turn integrations on or off”Go to Career Board > Settings > Integrations and find the BuddyPress card. It has three switches:
- Profile Tabs - on by default. Adds the My Jobs and My Career tabs. Turn it off if your BuddyPress theme already provides equivalent tabs.
- Application Notifications - on by default. Sends in-app bell notifications, not emails. Email notifications are set under Settings > Emails.
- Group Job Boards - off by default. Turn it on to give each group a job board and a Jobs tab. Groups you already have are added in the background.
If BuddyPress is not active, the card shows “Requires BuddyPress (not active)” and the switches are disabled.
The activity entries and the member directory filters have no switch. They run whenever the BuddyPress Activity or Members component is active.
Tiered credit pricing has no settings screen. See Tiered credit pricing.
What you do not need
Section titled “What you do not need”- No extra plugins beyond BuddyPress and WP Career Board Pro.
- No manual board setup for groups. Each group board is created for you as a normal Career Board board.