[Babelsheep]

Well, the title basically sums it up.

In the case of the job posting board, I’d like to have a content type of “Job Post”, that specific users can create via the frontend – sorta like when creating a group. This content type should contain input fields like for example ‘Salary [integer]’, ‘Location [text language="field"][/text]‘, ‘Job Description [text language="area"][/text]‘, ‘catagory [check boxes]’ and so forth.
When this content type is submitted it should be listed on a dedicated page, where the user can sort the list jobs by category, location etc. The marketplace would basically be the same thing, but obviously with different fields.

I just stumbled upon Buddypress yesterday, so I’m really the definition of a noob.

Anybody knows if this could be done? … Any alternatives?

[Dwenaus]

@babelsheep yes this is possible and a good idea for a plugin. However If all you need is a job board and you don’t need social networking then I believe there are wordpress plugins that do this well.https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/job-manager/ is one choice but there are others.

[Bowe]

There is a job posting plugin in the works by @travel-junkie.. check out http://test.jobboardr.com/

I think you need to pay a bit for the plugin but his work and support makes it worth it (imo).

[Boris]

Yep, that’s possible. As Bowe said, you can check out my plugin at test.jobboardr.com. The plugin works on the bleeding edge version of BuddyPress, though, which has been a long time in the works. That’s the main reason why it’s not available yet. I’ll def. make it compatible with 1.2.6 and then release it.

As for the marketplace, I coded a shopping cart that integrates with groups, so it’s definitely possible. It’s quite complex, so you’ll probably want to hire a developer to do it for you, as I can’t release my code to the public.

[Babelsheep]

@Dwenaus Yeah, I’m in it for the social networking. I think I actually tried job-manager yesterday, but it didn’t seem to play nice with Buddypress. I’m guessing some plugins for WordPress will work with BuddyPress, but not all…or?

I just tried Jobboardr. The CV part seems great, but I can’t figure out how to create job posts (is it disabled or am I going blind? ). Also, I tried to create a group (thinking jobs might be dependent on groups), but a got an error message saying “Please fill in all required fields.” when pressing “Next Step” on the privacy settings page (public/private/hidden group).

[Boris]

Jobs are dependant on groups. That bug with the error message has been fixed already. Just uploaded the latest dev version onto the test site