Admin dashboard
The dashboard is the first screen of WP Job Portal in wp-admin. It shows what needs your attention, how the job board is doing, and what happened recently.
Open the dashboard
Section titled “Open the dashboard”- In the WordPress sidebar, select WP Job Portal.
- The dashboard opens, greeting you by name. Its breadcrumb reads Job Portal / Dashboard / Overview.
The WordPress sidebar lists only the screens you use most: Dashboard, Approvals, Jobs, Candidates, Companies, AI, Settings and Licences. Everything else is in the plugin’s own menu, described below.
The plugin menu
Section titled “The plugin menu”Every WP Job Portal screen has its own menu on the left, in groups. Select an entry to open it, or the arrow beside it to show the screens under it. Collapse at the bottom narrows the menu. Each screen shows where you are in a breadcrumb at the top, such as Job Portal / Settings / Job attributes / Job status; these docs write it as WP Job Portal → Settings → Job attributes → Job status.
At the top of the menu:
- the site mode (for example Job Marketplace), which opens Settings → Site mode;
- Search (or Ctrl+K), to jump to any screen in the menu or find a job, company, resume or person;
- +, to add a new job, company, department or job alert.
| Group | Entry | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Dashboard | Overview, Activity log |
| Approvals | Everything waiting for approval, with a tab per kind | |
| Reports | Overall, Employer, Job seeker, Stats | |
| Licences | Licences and add-ons, WordPress updates | |
| Hiring | Jobs | All jobs; Categories (with Job types and Tags); Job alerts |
| Candidates | Applications, Resumes, Cover letters. With Pro, also Folders and Messages | |
| Companies | All companies, Departments | |
| Suites | Recruiting | Added by Recruit Suite: Pipeline, Candidate workspace, Team, Insights, Automation |
| Payments | Added by Marketplace Suite: Overview, Trust & safety, Sales reports, Plans & credits (packages, user packages, invoices, payment methods) | |
| Website | Pages & SEO | SEO, Permalinks |
| Shortcodes | The shortcode list | |
| Appearance & language | Design, Translations | |
| Setup | Settings | Site mode, General (all the settings tabs), Apply form, Forms & fields, Job attributes (job status, career levels, highest educations, currency, salary range types), Locations |
| AI | Settings, Playground, Logs | |
| Emails | Templates, On/off options | |
| Users | All users, Roles | |
| System | Site health | System status, Error log, Scheduled tasks |
| Tools | Import, Hooks & filters |
Help & docs is at the bottom of the menu.
What the dashboard shows
Section titled “What the dashboard shows”
The top of the dashboard greets you and says how many items need your attention, with the most urgent one as a link. Beside it are Export, Options and Add New Job.
The sections below are on by default. Options switches others on (see below).
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Needs your attention | A card for each thing waiting for you, with a link to deal with it: jobs waiting for approval, other approvals (companies, resumes and so on), jobs that close in the next 7 days, applications not opened yet (with how many have waited over 3 days), payments not completed, setup steps left, and site health warnings. When nothing is waiting, it says you are all caught up |
| Key numbers | Applications, Jobs posted, New resumes and New companies for the chosen period, each compared with the period before and with a small trend line. With Marketplace Suite, also Revenue. Choose the period at the top right: 7 days, 30 days, 90 days or 12 months. The dashboard remembers your choice |
| Quick Actions | Shortcuts: Approve Jobs (with the number pending), Applied Jobs, View Reports and Settings. With Marketplace Suite, also Manage Plans |
| Platform Growth | A chart of applications and new jobs over the period |
| Hiring funnel | The applications made in the period, by how far they got: applied, in review, interviewing, offer, hired, and how many were not selected |
| Job performance | Open jobs with their views, applications and apply rate (applications per 100 views), and a list of open jobs that have had no applications after 7 days |
| Revenue | With Marketplace Suite: what was paid this month compared with last month, payments not completed, active subscriptions and subscriptions renewing in the next 7 days |
| Recent activity | New jobs, applications, resumes, companies and members, newest first. The tabs filter it; Show more lists more |
A Careers & ATS site shows no company figures and starts without Quick Actions and Revenue, because it runs a single company.
More sections
Section titled “More sections”These are off until you switch them on in Options:
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Jobs By Status, Top Job Categories | Two charts |
| Latest Package Subscriptions, Latest Payments | With Marketplace Suite: the newest subscriptions and payments received |
| Change log (staff edits) | Entries from the activity log |
| System Error Log | Recent errors the plugin has recorded |
Revenue, payments and the error log are shown only to administrators.
Download the numbers
Section titled “Download the numbers”Select Export to download the numbers for the chosen period as a spreadsheet (CSV).
Choose which sections appear
Section titled “Choose which sections appear”- On the dashboard, select Options.
- In Customize Your Dashboard, switch sections on or off, and drag them (or use the arrows) into the order you want.
- Select Apply Changes.
To go back to the default layout, open Options and select Reset To Defaults.