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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.