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@travel-junkie I would 100% go with option 2. I have many clients who would love for people to be able to attach their CV to their profile. I do a lot of sites for actors and models and this is absolutely perfect if the actors/ models can post their CV’s to their profiles for people to download as a PDF.

One project I am working on this minute would be made SO much better with just the CV option.

I for one wouldn’t mind at all in buying 2 seperate plugins – 1 for CV’s and one for job board if at a later stage it was necessary.

If you were looking at the full job board experience as a 100 Euro plugin then why not sell just the CV component for fraction of that and then promote the full jobboard add on as a premium upgrade.

You could even give away the CV component as a taster of what can be done with job board. that way it gets hundrerds of sites using it, becoming aware of it and a good percentage of those will no doubt want to expand and buy the full jobboard as a result.

Splitting the 2 components could well be a canny marketing ploy.
People will use the CV component and then realise they soon need the upgrade.

What do you think?
I for one would love the CV component whether it’s free or a paid plugin. How easy would it be for you to create the CV component as a standalone? If you can add in the customisation we spoke about before in terms of editing fields and meta data on the CV I’ll put my name down for it now!

Is 1.2.6 going to have editing buttons in forums or not, do you know?
Is there a plugin available to download for 3.0.1 + 1.2.5.2 ?
I got a “BuddyPress Forums Extras” installed, but it didn’t do the job.
http://svetkidoma.net – sorry, it’s all in Russian.

@intimez You can take a gander here at what needs to be done: https://trac.buddypress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=accepted&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=1.2.6

@travel-junkie Oh, one very last question and then I’ll stop bothering you I promise! Hahaha! Is it at all possible to have JUST the CV creator installed?

Depending on what my client wants it might be to begin with that he just wants members to be able to post their CV’s to their profile for others to browse and download?
Would this be a separate lighter weight plugin that we could buy before going for the full job board if necessary.

I really do love this plugin, I can see so many projects I want to create using this!

@travel-junkie Cool, I’m really excited about this! Noticed on your site there are no forums. I take it that you can still have full BP functionality with forums but with each group having an optional job board?

One last question. If I only want to give certain users the ability to post jobs in a job board tab say for just one group, is that possible.
For example, I may have a user who I want to create a group for with a job board. Can I give them permission just to be able to post jobs on that ONE job board and no others. I want to give individual companies their own board you see and have them only able to admin that specific board.
Cheers!

FWIW – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2264 for 1.2.6

@rossagrant I really hope it will release soon. Many needed fixes for all. Very disappointed that it was late and hope more can commit to bp to speed things along.

@travel-junkie Just looked at the CV creator and you know, this could be phenomenal!
The only thing I would need extra really is the ability to change the fields that appear in the CV (in the same way you can add profile fields etc in BP) That would be absolutely superb. Also the avatar doesn’t appear when you download the CV as a PDF. Is that supposed to happen? It would be great to get the avatar also.

Cheers!

If you can make the plugin customisable in terms of the CV profile fields I’ll definitely be buying a copy of this off you!

@rossagrant Don’t think it is soon. Still have 16 active tickets and already 3 weeks late.

@jeremyltn Really nice, intuitive looking site! Is that a publicly available template? I think it looks very nice.
What photo upload plugin are you using? I’m looking for a very lightweight one that would enable me to limit how many pics a user can upload.

@Chris O’Brien I just visited your website looks like you have siad yes to “Hide admin bar for logged out users?:” in buddypress general settings if you change that No than you will see signup links in admin bar.

@crashutah – That’s right. But chances are that most of your modifications will only take place in a handful of template files, so it’s still way better than having to migrate changes over to a wholesale copy of bp-default. To give you a frame of reference, even a fairly heavily themed version of BP 1.2.x like on http://commons.gc.cuny.edu inherits something like 60-70% of its template files from bp-default.

You win a prize! Good spot, and thanks. I’ve taken the liberty of filing a bug reported and have attached a patch based on your findings.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2603/

@travel-junkie This sounds pretty sweet! Is there a way of modifying what gets filled in on a person’s CV? I am running a website for actors so a CV for an actor is a little different. It includes a photograph and other fields that aren’t typical. Can you customise the CV functionality?

Also Can you make a CV on your test site, I’d like to have a go.

@porscheheritage – exactly!

If you are happy with the content being produced by the template files, then yes, just create you own style.css (and other css files) in your child theme, and modify to meet your needs.

I quite like the bp-default folder structure for images and css files, so you might want to copy that.

@crashutah – that all depends how much you’ve specialised your child theme away from the default. It also depends if there are new features you want to take advantage of – in which case dig around and see how they are being used in the default, and ‘steal / adapt’ as necessary.

Remember for the most part, a theme is about presentation rather than underlying function / features. That said, this can be blurred as you dig into the activity loops and directory template files.

We typically derive our child themes from the bp-default theme, but make very considerable changes – chopping out big chunks of the over heavy markup, and making somewhat dramatic changes to the layout. By deriving, we do however get to make use of some of default templates especially within the social loops, etc.

For some of our newest sites, where you would struggle to know BuddyPress was even there, we are building our own themes from scratch.

@porscheheritage: have you read this article on child theme development: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ ?

That’s the best starting point.

You don’t copy the BP-default theme – instead in your child theme, you create new templates where you want to override the default ones, and simply inherit the others. A directive you add to your child theme’s style.css file identifies which theme is it’s parent.

@keneticimages Watch for the Achievements plugin that’s being developed: http://byotos.com/ It looks like it will be a pretty cool badge plugin.

@mark211 – You can change the slug just by adding the one line to wp-config.php

define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join-up’ );

This thread tells a little more about potential problems: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/defining-new-register-slug-not-working/

ON the View problem – I think you have posted the wrong URL – it gives a 404 error

Ask this question as a separate thread in support though. Search the forum first of all though, because I think there are some existing threads on this type of problem (view permalink)

I don’t know if this is an official bump or not… The issue was addressed here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1973

I do want to start a discussion about how to make this feature more intuitive from a usability perspective. One of my clients and me were perplexed by this until we started reading up on it in the BuddyPress forums and trac.

Is there a better place to hold this discussion?

Thanks!