WPJobBoard Plugin Review

Most of the premium job board solutions for WordPress such as Job Board and Nine To Five are WordPress themes. This is perfect for those who are launching a new job website but not so great for those who want to integrate a job board into an existing website.

WP Job Board is different. The plugin lets you add a job board to your existing website however it also comes with a great looking WordPress theme, making it a good solution for most users.

WPJobBoard Plugin Design

The design that comes packaged with it shows off a lot of the features of the theme. Visitors can upload details about jobs and upload their resumes for employers to browse. The sidebar shows all job categories, a resumes menu, the latest job listings and RSS feeds for each job category.

The demo illustrates how detailed you can make the job upload form. Companies can add their website address and upload their logo and the type of job, job category, job title and description can all be denoted.

Additional fields can be entered if you wish and the exact location of the job. Website owners can charge for job listings if they wish and discounts can be given to employers using customers.

WP JobBoard URL Strucutre

By default the plugin sets your job board URL to http://www.yoursite.com/jobs and your resume URL to http://www.yoursite.com/resumes. Both of these addresses can be changed though.

In the configuration area you can enter your paypal email address for premium listings and set whether anyone can post jobs or just registered users or admin. Jobs can be moderated and you can post new jobs to Twitter automatically.

The number of listings can per page can be changed in the settings area too. Another good feature is the ability to hide jobs once they have been filled. You can also increase registrations by only allowing registered members to apply for jobs.

Is WP JobBoard Plugin Good For SEO?

SEO fans will be pleased to know that the title for every type of page on Job Board can be edited. You don’t have to change these if you don’t want to though at the very least you should change your job board title as it just defaults to ‘Job Board’. Resumes are a welcome addition to the script. You can change the setting so that only registered employers or employers who have upgraded to a premium account can get access to them. This reduces the risk of personal data being harvested.

Once you have configured your site you need to add some categories. This should only take you a few minutes to do.

The plugin comes with 5 job types as default: full time, part time, contractor, intern and seasonal/temp. You can remove these if you wish and add your own job types.

All of the emails that are sent to admin, employers and registered users can be modified via the email templates page. HTML can’t be used in the templates though there are 17 template variables that can be inserted.

The form that you add jobs through your admin area is identical to the one displayed to visitors. This form, the form that users see and the resume form can all be edited via a visual editor. You can set whether each field is visible or not and whether it is required. You can also change the title and add a hint to add additional informational about a field.

Two listing types are set by default. A free listing for 30 days and a premium listing for 30 days that costs $20. You can create new listing types and set the price with any currency that PayPal uses.

WP JobBoard Features

One of the best features of Job Board is the ability to import job listings from CareerBuilder, Indeed or an XML file. After entering your API keys in the configuration area, you can import jobs for your specified keyword. Jobs can only be imported into one category so you will have to do multiple imports in order to make sure jobs are allocated to the right categories (e.g. import design jobs to your design category, programming jobs to your programming category etc).

The main limitation of this feature is that it isn’t automated therefore you will have to import jobs periodically manually if you want your imported jobs to be up to date. Despite this, I still think this is one of the plugins best features.

Automatically Adds Jobs And Resumes To WordPress

The job board automatically adds a Jobs Page and a Resumes page to you WordPress website. By default these pages will have the same design as your other WordPress pages. Therefore, what you need to do is create a new page template that uses a different sidebar. You can then populate the sidebar with one of the main widgets that comes with the plugin such as job categories, job feeds or the job board menu.

Job listings will be styled using your existing theme stylesheet. This ensures that the job board blends in with the rest of your website seamlessly.

Easy Integration

I spent an hour or so testing WP Job Board. After importing some jobs and changing a lot of settings I am of the opinion that the plugin is one of the best job board solutions available for WordPress. The addition of a great-looking theme means that the plugin can be used to launch a new dedicated job website though for me the biggest selling point is the ability to integrate it into an existing website.

Hopefully we will see the import feature improved. I’d love the ability to automate imports and see more job sites added to the import list. The ability to list the latest jobs from other job sites using the sites RSS feed would be great too (even if it’s only a widget).

Warnings Before Using WP JobBoard

One thing I would warn you all is that there is very little (if any) documentation for the plugin. You should feel comfortable integrating the plugin into your site after using it for 20 minutes but initially you feel a little overwhelmed by all the options. Support is provided so you aren’t left to your devices all together however hopefully we will see a good FAQ and installation guide added in the near future.

If you are thinking about purchasing this plugin and are unsure about whether it does something specific, please leave a comment and I’ll do my best to address anything that I didn’t cover in this review.

Thanks,
Kevin

Link: WP Job Board

* Thanks to WP Job Board for providing a test copy of their plugin for the purpose of this review.

Kevin Muldoon
Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon is a professional blogger with a love of travel. He writes regularly about topics such as WordPress, Blogging, Productivity, Internet Marketing and Social Media on his personal blog and and provides technical support at Rise Forums. He can also be found on Twitter: @KevinMuldoon

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