Categories and lists

Most choices on job and resume forms come from lists you control: categories, job types, career levels and so on. Each list has its own screen in the WP Job Portal menu, and they all work the same way.

The lists

List	Menu path	What it holds
Categories	WP Job Portal → Jobs → Categories	Job and resume categories. A category can have a parent category.
Tags	WP Job Portal → Jobs → Tags	Keywords added to jobs.
Job types	WP Job Portal → Jobs → Job types	Full-time, part-time and so on. Each type has a colour.
Job status	WP Job Portal → Settings → Job attributes → Job status	The hiring statuses a job can have, and whether each one takes applications. See Hiring statuses.
Career levels	WP Job Portal → Settings → Job attributes → Career levels	Seniority levels.
Highest education	WP Job Portal → Settings → Job attributes → Highest educations	Education levels.
Currency	WP Job Portal → Settings → Job attributes → Currency	Currencies for salaries, with symbol and code.
Salary range type	WP Job Portal → Settings → Job attributes → Salary range types	The period a salary is paid per, such as per month.

The Categories list with the Categories, Job types and Tags tabs, the search, and categories with their sub-categories and status

Add an entry

Open the list, for example WP Job Portal → Jobs → Job types.
Select the Add New button at the top, for example Add New Job Type.
Fill in the form.
Select Save.

Most forms have the same fields:

Field	What it does
Title	The name people see. On categories this is Category Title.
Published	No hides the entry from the forms without deleting it.
Default	Yes makes this the entry that is selected when a form opens. Only one entry in a list is the default.

Some lists have extra fields:

List	Extra fields
Categories	Parent Category, to put a category under another one.
Job types	Color, used for the job type label.
Currency	Currency Symbol and Code, for example `$` and `USD`.
Tags	Tag For: Employer, Job seeker or Both. Tags have no Default.
Job status	Takes applications: Yes or No. See below.

Hiring statuses

A job’s hiring status is separate from its approval. Approval decides whether the job is on the site at all; the hiring status says whether it still takes applications. A new site has three:

Status	Takes applications
Open (the default)	Yes
On hold	No
Closed	No

When Takes applications is No, jobs with that status show “No longer accepting applications” and refuse new ones. The Applications column of the list shows Accepted or Not accepted for each status.

The status title is for the job’s owner and for you. Visitors only ever see Accepting applications or Closed.

Employers close and reopen their jobs from My Jobs, and you from the jobs list.

Edit, publish or delete entries

Select the edit icon on a row to change it.
To publish or unpublish several entries, tick them and use Publish or Unpublish above the list.
Select the delete icon, or tick entries and select Delete, to remove them.

To find an entry, use the Title and Select Status filters at the top of the list.

WP Job Portal refuses to delete or unpublish the default entry. It also refuses to delete an entry that jobs or resumes still use, for example a category or job type that a job is filed under. Move those records to another entry first, or just unpublish the old one.

Change the order

Every list except tags has a grab handle on each row. Drag the rows into the order you want, then select Save Ordering.

Category and tag display settings

A few settings for categories and tags are in WP Job Portal → Settings → Content & Display, under Taxonomy & Categories:

Show All Categories Even if Empty lists categories that have no jobs or resumes.
Categories Per Row and Sub-categories Limit control the category listing pages.
User Can Add New Tags lets employers create new tags while posting a job.

The currency symbol’s position (left or right of the amount) is the Currency Symbol Position setting on the Monetization tab.