Moving from WP Job Manager

If your job board runs on WP Job Manager, WP Job Portal can copy its data across from the same WordPress site. The importer reads WP Job Manager’s records and creates matching WP Job Portal records; it does not change or delete anything in WP Job Manager.

What the importer brings across

Data	How it is imported
Users	Every WordPress user without a WP Job Portal profile gets one. The role comes from what the user posted in WP Job Manager: users who posted jobs become employers; users who posted resumes or applications become job seekers. Where a user posted both, the kind they posted much more of, or posted most recently, wins. Users who already have a WP Job Portal profile are left as they are.
Custom fields	Job fields added with WP Job Manager’s field editor become WP Job Portal custom fields.
Companies	Company listings become companies. A job with no company listing gets a company made from the company details saved with the job.
Categories and job types	Copied into your WP Job Portal lists.
Tags	Copied into WP Job Portal tags.
Jobs	Copied with their company, category, type, tags and custom fields. The expiry date becomes the stop publishing date. The location is matched to your city list, and the salary is read from the job.
Resumes	Copied with their owner.
Job applications	Copied, linked to the imported job and applicant.

Note

Resume sections such as education and experience are only imported when Pro is active, because they need its advanced resume builder. Without it, the screen warns Advanced Resume Builder Addon missing, resume sections data will not be imported! and the rest of each resume is still imported.

Before you import

1. Back up your database.
2. Keep WP Job Manager installed and active. The importer only offers it while it is active.
3. Load the city list for the countries your jobs are in. Locations are matched against WP Job Portal’s cities, so a city that is not in the list cannot be matched. See Locations.

Run the import

1. Go to WP Job Portal → Dashboard.
2. In the WP Job Portal side menu, select Dashboard → Import Third Party Data.
3. On the WP Job Manager row, select Fetch Data.
4. Check the counts: jobs, companies, resumes, job applications, categories, job types, tags and fields found.
5. Select Import Data.

Only an administrator can run the import. A large site can take a while; leave the page open until the report appears.

Check the results

When the import finishes, the Import Data Report lists each kind of record with three counts:

Column	Meaning
Imported	New WP Job Portal records created.
Similar Found	Records skipped because they were imported before or already exist.
Not Imported	Records that could not be imported.

The report reminds you to verify Locations and salaries for imported data entities. Open a few imported jobs under WP Job Portal → Jobs and check:

• the city, for jobs whose location did not match your city list
• the salary and salary type
• the company each job belongs to
• that the employers and job seekers have the right role, under Users

Running the import again skips records it has already imported, so it is safe to repeat after you fix something, for example after loading more cities.

Note

Users who posted nothing in WP Job Manager, administrators included, also get a WP Job Portal profile, but with no role: they are neither employers nor job seekers. Give them a role under WP Job Portal → Users if they need one. See Users and roles.

In 2.7.0 the report’s tags row always shows every WP Job Manager tag under Not Imported and none under Similar Found, even when the tags were imported. To check the imported tags, open Tags in the WP Job Portal side menu instead.

When you are happy with the result, you can deactivate WP Job Manager.

Related

• Locations
• Managing jobs
• Users and roles
• Field manager