Introduction
WP Job Portal is a job board plugin for WordPress. It runs a careers site for one company, or a job board where many employers post jobs and job seekers apply, from inside your own WordPress site.
Who it is for
Section titled “Who it is for”When you first set it up, WP Job Portal asks what you are building. The choice tailors the admin menus and a few settings, and you can change it later without losing any data.
| Mode | Choose it when |
|---|---|
| Careers & ATS | The only employer on the site is you. You publish your own openings from the admin, receive applications and manage candidates. |
| Job Marketplace | Outside employers post to your site. Companies register, publish their own jobs and reach candidates, while you moderate and can charge for listings. |
Sites upgraded from an older version run in existing-site compatibility until you choose a mode: nothing is hidden and no setting is locked. See Setup wizard.
The free plugin and the paid products
Section titled “The free plugin and the paid products”The free plugin, WP Job Portal, is the whole job board and works on its own. It includes:
- jobs, companies, resumes and applications
- employer and job seeker dashboards
- custom fields, field ordering and an approval workflow
- email templates and notifications
- categories, job types, locations and workplace types
- weekly job alerts, RSS feeds, shortlists, tags, social sharing, Tell a Friend, Copy Job and basic printing
- seven listing widgets and city data for 186 countries
- an importer for WP Job Manager data
Four paid products add to it. Each one needs only the free plugin, not each other.
| Product | What it adds |
|---|---|
| Pro | Advanced resume builder, multiple resumes and cover letters, resume search and a public resume directory, apply without registering, messaging, resume folders, company departments, PDF, print templates and data export, reports, daily, monthly and instant job alerts, maps, the full city database and the Elegant Design look. |
| Marketplace Suite | Everything to do with selling listings: packages, subscriptions and credits, checkout through Stripe, PayPal or WooCommerce, featured jobs, companies and resumes, several companies per employer, employer verification, visitor job posting and revenue reporting. |
| Recruit Suite | The hiring side: candidate pipeline and stages, scorecards, offers with approvals and signatures, notes and mentions, message templates, bulk actions, automation and recruiting reports. |
| Smart Search & Matching | Relevance-ranked job and resume search, suggested jobs and resumes, and match scores, run on your own server. |
One licence key covers every product in your plan. You install and update them from the Licences screen. See Install Pro and the suites.
How this documentation is organised
Section titled “How this documentation is organised”| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Getting Started | Installing, the setup wizard, sample data, your first job, products and licences, upgrading and moving from WP Job Manager. |
| Managing the Job Board | Day-to-day admin work: jobs, companies, resumes and applications, users, customising and tools. |
| Settings Reference | The tabs under Configurations, setting by setting. |
| Showing Jobs on Your Site | Pages, shortcodes, widgets, Elementor, maps and the look of the front end. |
| Selling Listings | Marketplace Suite: packages, credits, checkout and payment gateways. |
| Hiring | Recruit Suite: pipeline, candidates, scorecards and offers. |
| Smart Search & Matching | AI job and resume search, suggestions and match scores. |
| Employer Guide and Job Seeker Guide | Written for the people who use your job board. You can send your users there. |
| Developers | How the plugin is built, styling and templates, and the hooks reference. |
| Help | Troubleshooting, FAQ, changelog and support. |