• Designing a Job Application Form in WordPress Made Easy

    Struggling to design a job application form in WordPress? Creating a WordPress job application that works smoothly is crucial. An easy and streamlined job application process can help you avoid inefficiencies and errors in the hiring process while encouraging more applicants to apply. The solution lies in having the right WordPress tools at your disposal. With…

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  • New! Listing Renewals, Better Alerts, and More

    We’re excited to share the latest release of WP Job Manager, Alerts, WC Paid Listings, and Simple Paid Listings. This update includes Listing Renewals, a reworked dashboard for Alerts, Alerts moderation in the administrator screens, and some important bug fixes. Let’s take a closer look at what the latest version offers. Listing Renewals Listing Renewals’ is…

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  • We’ve been busy fixing bugs and adding features to WP Job Manager, Resume Manager, Applications, and Simple Paid Listings. Resume Manager 1.18.0 This release added several features, some of which may look familiar from WP Job Manager. These include: Ability to enable moderation of edits to published resumes. Ability to enable edits to resumes still pending approval. Improved…

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  • Bookmarks 1.4.0 has just been released, which includes a couple of notable improvements. Thumbnails Version 1.4.0 adds the company logo to bookmarked job listings, and the candidate’s photo to bookmarked resumes (when using the Resume Manager add-on): Improved Interactivity This release allows for easier and faster interaction when adding, updating or deleting bookmarks by utilizing…

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  • We wanted to let everyone know that Apply with Facebook will no longer be sold on WPJobManager.com starting today. Due to some changes that Facebook has made to their API, it is no longer possible to retrieve information such as education and work history, which drastically reduces the usefulness of the Apply with Facebook add-on. Note that: We…

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Latest Releases

  • Applications 2.5.4

    Enhancement: Adds new hooks for extending application actions and adding new sections
    * job_application_content_start
    * job_application_content_end
    * job_application_actions_start
    * job_application_actions_end

  • Resume Manager 1.18.5

    • Bump tested up to version to 5.8.
    • Dev: Improve the handling of meta data and add REST support. (@Gnodesign)
    • Dev: Add filters for [resumes] shortcode output, matching WP Job Manager core. (@tripflex)
    • Change: Use the new wp_robots filter when it’s available instead of wp_no_robots().
    • Fix: Make category dropdown automatically resize based on window width on resumes page.
    • Feature: New skills input to search for resumes by skills on the frontend.
    • Feature: Ability to sort by skills and featured columns on admin.
  • Applications 2.5.3

    • Enhancement: Adds agreement checkbox to the application submissions.
    • Fix: Adds application fields options translation.
    • Fix: Deprecates new_job_application hook, adds a new hook job_manager_applications_new_job_application.
  • Job Alerts 1.5.5

    • Enhancement: Add unsubscribe link to the email and text explaining why they are receiving it.
    • Enhancement: Add email permission checkbox.
    • Fix: Fix job type form showing up when job types are disabled by adding taxonomy check.
    • Fix: Don’t encode html special chars for email output.
    • Enhancement: Remove job alert posts when removing user.
  • WP Job Manager 1.35.2

    • Enhancement: Add agreement checkbox to job submission.
    • Fix: Remove unnecessary filter avoiding warning in WP 5.8.
    • Fix: Fix padding on “Apply for job” button.
    • Fix: Fix file path for older versions of script
  • Enhancement: Add personal data privacy handling (exporter and eraser)

    • Fix: Add latitude and longitude on resume listing element to match WPJM core. (@tripflex)
    • Fix: Use standard WordPress search to fix issue with MySQL 8.
    • Change: On new installs, do not enable account registration on job submission page by default.
    • Fix: Company name color contrast. (@DaWoblefet)
    • Fix: Fix issue when Select2 isn’t used on the job submission form. (@tripflex)
  • Bookmarks 1.4.3

    Fix: Prevent bookmarking other candidate’s posts
    Enhancement: Add a template for the [my_bookmarks] shortcode for logged-out users

    • Add featured jobs filter to the form.
    • Fix potential XSS vulnerability.
  • Fix: Issue with ordering of job listings

    • Fix sorting by closing date.
    • Run the cronjob at midnight in all timezones.
    • Change the calculation of closing date on the listings page.
    • Switch to webpack via wordpress-scripts and simplify build.
  • Applications 2.5.2

    • Fix: jQuery 3.x compatibility.
    • Fix: Show application form on error, but don’t scroll.
    • Fix: Make dynamic fields translatable.
  • Resume Manager 1.18.3

    • Fix: jQuery 3.x compatibility.
  • Job Tags 1.4.2

    Fix: jQuery 3.x compatibility

  • Bookmarks 1.4.2

    Enhancement: Add multi-site compatibility.
    Enhancement: Remove user bookmarks on user deletion.
    Enhancement: Add personal data exporter and eraser.

  • WP Job Manager 1.35.0

    • Change: Bumped minimum WordPress version to 5.4.
    • Change: Listings now expire (by default) at the end of the expiration date.
    • Change: Job listing expiration checks uses the WordPress time zone.
    • Change: All dates are now presented using the WordPress time zone.
    • Change: Transitioned from LESS to SCSS for CSS generation. May affect final CSS generation and should be tested with theme.
    • Fix: jQuery UI CSS 404s when jQuery Migrate plugin is installed.
    • Fix: Pagination on job dashboard page when actions are completed.
    • Fix: Application Email/URL field will give more actionable validation errors.
    • Fix: Action job_manager_job_submitted fired when outside of standard submission flow.
    • Fix: job_manager_select2_filters_args pollution on frontend. (@tripflex)
    • Fix: is_wpjm_page returns true if none are defined. (@ibndawood)
    • Fix: Missing variable error with cached widgets.
    • Tweak: reCAPTCHA setting has more clear language. (@tripflex)
    • Dev: Added filter submit_job_form_create_account_role for user role when created on job submission. (@tripflex)
    • Dev: Added filter job_manager_should_run_shortcode_action_handler for if a job dashboard action should run.
    • Dev: Added filter job_manager_get_form_action to modify the action of a frontend form. (@tripflex)
    • Template update: job-dashboard.php with new date functions.
  • WP Job Manager 1.34.5

    • Fix: Jobs list not appearing in the page load while using Firefox.
  • WP Job Manager 1.34.4

    • Fix: Harden security of job dashboard actions. Reported by Slavco.
    • Updated template: job-dashboard.php.