How to only allow admin specified skills to be selected

Candidate Skills Frontend Demo

By default WP Job Manager Resumes Skills field will show a textbox for users to enter a comma separated list of skills.  If you decide you do not want users to be able to specify their own skills, you can use WP Job Manager Field Editor to change the field type which will only allow […]

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Show/Hide specific fields based on selected package

Field Editor Modal Packages

WP Job Manager Field Editor version 1.2.4 includes a new feature which allows you to configure fields to show and/or hide based on the package the user selects. This requires the WooCommerce Paid Listings plugin (Support for Astoundify Listing Payments was added in Field Editor version 1.7.3) Paid Listings Flow MUST be set to “Choose a package before […]

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Using the integrated Widget

WP Job Manager Field Editor Widget

WP Job Manager Field Editor comes with an integrated Widget you can use to customize the location of output in your theme wherever widgets are supported. You will find the widget under the standard widgets with the title Custom Field.  All you need to do is select the widget and drag and drop it in the […]

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How to customize Optional or Required label on fields, and Submit buttons

WP Job Manager Field Editor Job Settings

There may come a time where you want to customize the label next to fields that tell the website visitor if the field is Required or Optional, and it just so happens you can do that with WP Job Manager Field Editor. By default WP Job Manager puts a (optional) label next to any fields that are not […]

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Auto Populate from User Meta Feature

Jobify Theme Auto Populate Example

With the release of version 1.1.12 of WP Job Manager Field Editor, a new feature has been added which is called Auto Populate.  This will allow you to auto populate any of the currently editable fields with a value pulled from a user’s meta. The auto populate feature now also supports saving to the users […]

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How to change button, or other text on entire WordPress site

I have received a few requests from users about how they can change the wording on things such as buttons, or even “Resumes” in general.  Even though this is out of the scope of the WP Job Manager Field Editor plugin, I will show you in this tutorial how to easily change pretty much any […]

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How to create/add a custom taxonomy to use with Checklist, Dropdown, or MultiSelect

Create New Pod

If you are unfamiliar with what a Taxonomy is you should read this first: http://pods.io/docs/learn/what-are-custom-taxonomies/ In this tutorial I will be using Pods to create the custom taxonomy, you can find their documentation on creating a custom taxonomy here: http://pods.io/docs/build/how-to-create-a-custom-taxonomy/ Install Pods First you need to install the Pods plugin.  This is available from the […]

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Field Output Configuration

WP Job Manager Field Editor New Modal

With the release of WP Job Manager Field Editor version 1.1.8 a new feature has been included which now allows you to specify custom fields you want to automatically output on Job/Resume listings.  You can still use the integrated Widget, PHP or Shortcodes to output the custom fields, but it is now a lot easier to do […]

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How to dump/output field array data below list tables

WP Job Manager Field Editor xdebug output example

Starting with version 1.1.5 you can now add &debug to the end of any list table URLs to dump/display all field array data below the list table.  This will force the plugin to check if xdebug is installed, if it is the plugin will use var_dump  to output values, otherwise it will wrap the array data in <pre>  tags […]

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How to output custom fields on job and/or resume listings

As of version 1.1.9 there is an integrated auto output feature!: https://plugins.smyl.es/docs-kb/field-output-configuration/ As of version 1.1.5 there is an integrated widget you can use to output a custom field: https://plugins.smyl.es/blog/widget-now-included-with-wp-job-manager-field-editor/ As of version 1.2.0 the widget has undergone a huge overhaul and should have all the same options as auto output: https://plugins.smyl.es/docs-kb/using-the-integrated-widget/ You can also […]

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