Managing jobs

The jobs list in wp-admin shows every job on the site, whoever posted it. From here you add jobs yourself, edit any job, close a job to new applicants, see its applications and delete jobs you no longer need.

Open the jobs list

Go to WP Job Portal → Jobs. The heading shows how many jobs there are and how many are open.

The tabs above the list narrow it down:

Tab	Shows
All	Every job.
Accepting applicants	Approved jobs inside their publishing dates that still take applications.
Closed	Jobs closed to new applicants.
Waiting for approval	Jobs an employer posted that wait for you. You can also approve them on the Approvals page.
Expired	Jobs whose closing date has passed.

A Closing in 7 days tab appears when you open the list from that link on the dashboard.

Each job shows badges where they apply: Waiting for approval, Rejected, Pending payment (Marketplace Suite), Not published yet, Expired and Featured. A job with no city shows No location. The Hiring status column shows the job’s status; a closed job has “to new applicants” under it.

The jobs list with the tabs, search and More filters open, and job rows with their actions

Find a job

Type in Search title, company, category or location, or pick a Category, Job type or Location.
For more, open More filters: Company, Approval status (Approved, Waiting for approval, Rejected or Pending payment) and Posted between. With Marketplace Suite there is also Featured jobs only.
Select Search.

Select Reset to clear the filters. The order list offers Newest first, Oldest first, Expiring soonest, Most applications, and A–Z by title, company, category, location or job type.

Add a job

Go to WP Job Portal → Jobs and select Add New Job.
Fill in the form. Which fields appear, their order and which are required are set in Settings → Forms & fields → Job. See Field manager.
Add a City, or set Workplace Type to Remote. While the City field is on the form, a job needs one of the two. Without either you see “Add a city, or set Workplace Type to Remote. Google for Jobs lists a job only when it has a location or is marked remote.”
Select Save Job.

Edit a job

In the jobs list, select the job title or Edit.
Change what you need.
Select Save Job.

If the save fails, the form opens again with what you typed kept.

See a job’s applications

Each job has Applications (n), with the number of applications. Select it to open them. See Handling applications. View opens the job on the site.

Close a job to new applicants

Closing a job stops new applications. The job and the applications it already has stay.

Select Close to new applicants on the job.
The job gets the first hiring status that takes no applications, normally Closed. Its dates don’t change.

Job seekers see “No longer accepting applications” in place of the apply button, and the job’s hiring status reads Closed. Closed jobs stay in the job list on the site, after the open ones, and job alerts leave them out.

To take applications again, select Reopen. The job gets your default hiring status. If its closing date has passed, it also gets a new one: today plus the job’s original run, and at least 30 days.

To close or reopen several jobs, tick them and choose Close to new applicants or Reopen in the bulk bar.

Expiry

A job stops showing on the site after its Stop Publishing date. How long employer-posted jobs run by default is set by the Job Expiry Days settings. See Jobs settings.

Three days before a live job closes, WP Job Portal e-mails its employer once, “Your job closes soon”, with a link to My Jobs to change the date.

Delete jobs

Select Delete on the job, or tick several jobs and select Delete in the bulk bar.
The Delete jobs? window opens. Jobs that have applications are kept, unless you tick Also delete everything about these jobs (applications and related records). This cannot be undone.
Select Delete.