A profile that holds a bio and a list of posts tells you who someone is. It says nothing about what they do on the site. Once a community runs a job board, a directory, a course catalogue and an events calendar, most of that activity lives somewhere else, and a visitor who lands on a member’s profile never sees it.
BuddyNext Pro connects the profile to those four plugins: Career Board, Listora, Learnomy and Eventonomy. This post walks through what shows up, where it appears and, most importantly, who is allowed to see it, because the privacy rules differ from panel to panel.
One Portfolio tab instead of four extra tabs
The obvious way to add four plugins to a profile is four new tabs, which crowds the profile. BuddyNext Pro does it differently. Career Board, Listora and Learnomy each add panels to one shared tab called Portfolio, and each panel becomes a sub-tab inside it.
A few rules keep it tidy:
- The Portfolio tab only appears for a member who has something to show. An empty profile does not get an empty tab.
- The tab carries a count, the total of the items in the panels the viewer is allowed to see.
- Panels are shown in a fixed order, so they do not shuffle between page loads.
- Each plugin’s integration has its own navigation switch, and Career Board has one for each of its two sub-tabs, so you can turn off just the part you do not want.
Eventonomy is the exception. It adds its own Events tab to the profile instead of sharing Portfolio.
What each panel shows, and who sees it
| Panel | From | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|
| Jobs | Career Board | Everyone |
| Resume | Career Board Pro | Everyone, public resumes only |
| Listings | Listora | Everyone |
| Learning | Learnomy | Only the member |
| Certifications | Learnomy | Everyone |
| Teaching | Learnomy | Everyone |
| Organizing and Going | Eventonomy | Everyone |
| Maybe and Interested | Eventonomy | Only the member |
The detail behind each row is worth knowing.
Jobs and resume
The Jobs panel lists the jobs the member has posted. Each item shows the title and the company, then a short line of facts: remote or the location, the job type and how long ago it was posted, with the salary label when the job has one. A “View all Jobs” link goes to the member’s company page, which is what a visitor expects, not the site-wide job archive. The member alone also sees a “Manage Jobs” link to their employer dashboard.
The Resume panel is stricter. It needs Career Board Pro, it only appears when the resume pages are publicly viewable, and it lists only resumes the candidate has made public. An item shows the resume title with the job title or location underneath, or “Open to work” when there is neither. Only the member sees “Manage Resume”.
Listings
For a member who runs a business in your directory, the Listings panel shows their published listings. Each one carries its cover image, its category, location and type, a Verified flag when the listing has earned one and its rating. The owner gets a “Manage Business” link.
Courses: one private shelf, two public ones
Learnomy contributes three panels, and the split is deliberate.
Learning is the member’s own shelf of courses in progress, each with a progress figure, such as “40% complete”, or “Ready to start” for a course not yet begun. It exists as a quick way back into a course, so it is shown only to the member. This is enforced at the source: Learnomy’s route for enrolled courses is restricted to the member and site staff, so other members cannot request it directly either.
Certifications lists completed courses, marked “Certified” when a certificate was issued and “Completed” otherwise. Teaching lists the published courses the member teaches. Both are public, and both come from a Learnomy route that only returns completed and published work.
So a visitor sees what someone has achieved and teaches, never what they are halfway through.
Events
The Events tab has four buckets: Organizing, Going, Maybe and Interested. Interested needs Eventonomy Pro.
Visitors see Organizing and Going. Maybe and Interested are visible only to the member. Organizing shows a visitor only public events, and the Going and Maybe lists include upcoming, published, public events.
Separately, a space can have its own Events tab. It is off by default and the space owner switches it on, so a space only carries the tab when someone wants it.
Shortcuts for the owner
Each panel adds a way back to the plugin that manages the content, shown only to the member whose profile it is. Jobs has “Manage Jobs”, which opens the employer dashboard, and Resume has “Manage Resume”. Listings has “Manage Business”. Learnomy’s panels offer “Go to my courses”, “View your certificates” and “Manage Courses”.
Visitors see none of these. They see the content and, on the Jobs panel, a “View all Jobs” link to the member’s company page.
Switching panels off
You decide which panels exist. Every integration has a navigation switch in BuddyNext’s integration settings, and an integration that is switched off adds no panels to anyone’s profile. Career Board goes one step further, with a separate switch for its Jobs panel and its Resume panel, so you can show jobs and hide resumes, for example.
If nothing has been switched off but a panel is missing for one member, the usual reasons are that the member has nothing public in it, or, for resumes, that Career Board Pro is not active or the resume pages are not publicly viewable.
A walk through one profile
Take a member who runs a design studio, teaches a short course on branding and organizes a monthly meetup. A visitor opens their profile and sees a Portfolio tab with a count. Inside are their studio’s listing, the course they teach and any certificates they have earned. The Events tab shows the meetup they organize and the next event they are going to. None of it was entered by hand on the profile.
The same member, logged in, also sees their Learning shelf with progress on the courses they are taking, and the Maybe list of events they have not committed to. That is the difference between a public profile and a private workspace, and it is why the owner-only panels matter. Edit the course, update the listing or publish an event, and the profile follows within the cache window, with no extra step for the member.
Why it matters to a visitor
Consider a member who teaches a course, runs a monthly meetup and posts the occasional job. A bio can claim all of that. The Portfolio and Events tabs show it: the course, the certificates they have earned, the next event they are organizing. People trust a profile that proves what it says, and members get a reason to keep the profile current without ever editing it by hand.
Making profiles worth visiting
There is a simple pitch for members: you do not maintain a second profile. They keep publishing in the plugins they already use, and the profile reflects it. If someone asks why a brand new listing is not on their profile yet, wait for the five minute cache window before you look for a bug.
A Portfolio tab only helps when there is something in it. Before you point members at it, make sure the site has real content: a few jobs, some listings, a course or two and an upcoming event. Then tell members what each panel pulls from, so they know that publishing a listing or finishing a course will show up on their profile without any extra work.
Early members are the ones who set the tone. If the first profiles people see are rich, others will want theirs to look the same.
What to expect in practice
A few limits are worth knowing before you plan around this.
- Each Portfolio panel lists up to ten items. It is a showcase, not a full archive.
- Panels are cached for each member for up to five minutes, and the cache is cleared when a post changes, so new content normally appears right away, and at worst after the cache window.
- The items link out to the pages of the plugin that owns them. Nothing is copied into the profile.
- Everything needs BuddyNext Pro and the matching plugin. A site without Learnomy has no Learnomy panels, and a site without Career Board Pro has no Resume panel.
Check it with two accounts
The privacy rules are the part to test. Create or use two accounts, then compare the profile of the first one logged in as itself with the same profile logged out or as the second account. The member should see Learning, Maybe and the “Manage” links, and the visitor should not. If a panel is missing for both, check that member actually has public content in it, and that the integration’s navigation switch is on.
Where to go next
If you want the other half of this picture, one community feed for jobs, events, courses and listings covers what these plugins post into the feed. The integration pages go through each plugin in detail: Career Board, Listora, Learnomy and Eventonomy. The bridges ship in BuddyNext Pro, and the pricing page shows what that includes.