Cover letters

Requires Pro

With Pro, job seekers can write several cover letters and choose one each time they apply. Employers then see it with the application. In wp-admin you can review, edit, approve and delete every cover letter on the site.

Without Pro, the Cover Letter menu entry is greyed out.

Open the cover letters list

Go to WP Job Portal → Candidates → Cover letters. The list shows each Cover letter, its Job seeker, how many Applications it was sent with, when it was Created and its Status.

Tabs: All, Approved, Waiting for approval, Rejected and Pending payment.
Search: type in Search title, text or job seeker and select Search.
Sort: Newest first, Oldest first, Title A–Z, Job seeker A–Z or Most used.

There is no Add New button. Cover letters are written by job seekers on the site. See Cover letters (job seeker guide).

Cover letters list with two cover letters, their job seeker, applications and status

Edit a cover letter

Select the cover letter’s title or Edit on its row.
Change the Title, the Description (the letter itself) or the Status.
Select Save Cover Letter.

Delete a cover letter

Select Delete on the cover letter’s row, or tick several and select Delete in the bar that appears. The Delete cover letters? window asks you to confirm.

Cover letters that were sent with an application are kept.

Approve cover letters

Go to WP Job Portal → Approvals → Cover letters. The page is titled Cover letters waiting for approval.
Point at a cover letter’s row and select Approve or Reject.

To find a cover letter, type in Search by name or who sent it and select Search. To delete several, tick them and select Delete in the bar that appears.

You can also approve them from the cover letters list: open the Waiting for approval tab and select Approve or Reject on a row, or tick several and use the bar that appears.

Turn auto-approve on or off

Go to WP Job Portal → Settings and open the Applications tab.
Under Auto-Approve Rules, set Cover Letter Auto Approve.
Select Save Changes.

With it on, new cover letters are approved as soon as they’re saved.

Cover letters in applications

Employers and you see the letter with the application, under View Cover Letter. See Handling applications.
To let logged-in users pick a cover letter on the Quick Apply form, turn on Enable Cover Letter Quick Apply. See Quick apply and visitor apply.