Most job board plugins still use shortcodes and jQuery and feel bolted-on. WP Career Board is built on Gutenberg blocks and the Interactivity API: live filtering, employer dashboards, candidate applications, native BuddyPress and Reign integration.
Account Settings now lets candidates and employers update their display name and email and change their password directly in the dashboard, instead of being sent off to wp-login.
Rejected job listings show as "Rejected" (not "Draft") in the employer dashboard, with a Resubmit action; resubmitting sends the job back for admin approval instead of publishing it directly.
Improve
Resume Builder no longer renders a doubled card frame when embedded in the dashboard, and the remove-entry icon now renders reliably.
Consistent spacing above the single-job sidebar widget titles.
Fix
Employer "My Applications" no longer surfaced another employer's application when you had none; the job-to-application lookup is now type-safe.
A job posted before you saved a company profile is now adopted into My Jobs when the company is created, instead of staying invisible.
A newly posted job now appears in My Jobs immediately, without a manual page reload.
Saving a company from its profile page now persists across reloads.
Compat
Aligned with WP Career Board Pro 1.3.0. Install both updates together.
v1.2.0
May 17, 2026
New 15 Improve 10 Fix 11 Dev 2 Compat 1
New
Single-page job posting form. Drop a one-screen form into any sidebar, modal, partner page, or page builder via the new "Job Form (Single-Page)" block or [wcb_job_form_simple] shortcode. Sits alongside the existing multi-step wizard.
Bulk applicant CSV export. Select applications in the admin list table and download a UTF-8 spreadsheet with applicant name, email, job, status, applied date, cover letter, and resume URL.
Salary range slider on the Find Jobs page so candidates can filter by minimum and maximum salary live, with chip pills showing the active range.
Application deadline reminder emails. Candidates who saved a job but have not applied get a 3-day and 1-day-out reminder automatically via daily cron.
Resume upload on the apply form for guests. The previous build only accepted resumes from logged-in candidates. PDF, DOC, and DOCX, with configurable required-vs-optional and size cap up to 20 MB.
Featured listings now expire automatically after a configurable duration (default 30 days), setting up Featured as a real time-bound paid SKU.
Rebuilt Edit Application admin screen. Applicant card with avatar and contact info, cover letter, resume preview with Open / Download, status changer, quick-action buttons (Shortlist / Mark Hired / Reject / Message), and full status history. Replaces the previously empty native post-edit screen.
Modular widget system. Every component on the rebuilt application screen also works as a [wcb_widget id="..."] shortcode on any page.
Rich RSS at /jobs/feed/ with company, salary (currency, period, min, max), location, type, category, tags, experience, deadline, and apply URL. Works in any RSS reader, IFTTT, or Zapier flow.
WPML / Polylang config so multilingual sites can translate job board CPTs, taxonomies, and key strings out of the box.
Page-builder compatibility. Every shortcode ([wcb_job_listings], [wcb_job_form], [wcb_job_form_simple], etc.) now accepts attributes and forwards them to the block, so Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Beaver Builder, and classic editor users can scope blocks (e.g. [wcb_job_listings boardId="42" perPage="6"]).
boardId and metaFilter attributes on the Job Listings block. Render a board-scoped or custom-relationship-scoped listing anywhere without writing custom code.
REST ?meta_<key>=<value> query support for the jobs endpoint. Any _wcb_* namespaced meta key is allowed by default; custom meta opts in via the wcb_jobs_allowed_meta_filters filter.
Custom-field flexibility on every form. Declarative filters (wcb_job_form_fields, wcb_company_form_fields, wcb_candidate_form_fields, wcb_application_form_fields_groups) take a single field-group schema. Add custom fields with one add_filter call.
Local CI runner via npm run ci. Runs PHP lint, WPCS, PHPStan, and size-limit on the dev workstation before every push.
Improve
Site-wide design token system extended with status color triplets, transition tokens, avatar size scale, and theme-aware primary tints. All blocks now token-driven so Reign and BuddyX integrators override one place to restyle the whole plugin.
REST API list endpoints now return a structured envelope with total, pages, and has_more. Legacy X-WCB-Total and X-WCB-TotalPages response headers stay populated for one release cycle for back-compat.
Mobile single-job page reading order corrected. "About This Role" now appears first on phones, previously sat below Job Details / Share / Company. Apply panel z-index lifted above theme toggles so light/dark switchers no longer overlap form fields.
Setup wizard now centers between the admin sidebar and the right edge on wide viewports. Was previously narrow and left-aligned.
Active filter pills on Find Jobs now sit with a comfortable bottom margin above the job cards. Pre-1.2.0 the pill row was flush against the cards.
Company cards on the Companies archive now align their meta chips at the same y-position across the grid regardless of how long each tagline is.
Plugin Check (PCP) and WPCS gates added to GitHub Actions CI alongside the existing PHP lint and PHPStan jobs.
Custom database tables now declare ENGINE=InnoDB explicitly so the plugin works on hosts whose MySQL default storage engine is still MyISAM.
Daily cron now schedules deadline reminders and featured-listing expiry sweeps automatically; deactivation cleanly clears scheduled events.
Filter-panel chevron icons on Find Jobs and Companies now route through the Lucide icon system instead of hand-rolled inline SVGs, so they pick up the same stroke and color tokens as the rest of the UI.
Fix
Test Email button on the Emails settings tab now succeeds even when the template is toggled off. Disabled templates were short-circuiting in send() so the row-delta check returned {sent:false} and the JS button painted "Failed". A new AbstractEmail::test_send() public bridge bypasses is_enabled() and marks the log row sent_test so admin previews do not pollute production delivery metrics.
Single job page now lists the Apply Email and routes Apply Now to the external Apply URL when those fields are set on the job.
Boards picker in the job form now hides BuddyPress group boards the employer is not a member of. Pro delivers the filtered list via the new wcb_board_options_for_employer hook.
Buy Credits link in the job form is suppressed when the credit purchase URL is not configured, so the button no longer points at the current page.
Pre-publish credit message ("Posting deducts N credits. Balance after: X (currently Y).") now reads its templates from translated PHP strings, with cost and balance interpolated live from the Wbcom Credits SDK.
Uninstall.php now uses $wpdb->prepare('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS %i', $table) with the WP 6.2+ identifier placeholder.
Removed all manage_options capability fallbacks from REST permission checks. Abilities API is now the single permission source.
Per-page parameter on the jobs list endpoint is now clamped to 100 in the handler. The schema-only maximum was previously a warning, not an enforced cap.
posts_per_page = -1 removed from frontend job query paths (replaced with bounded queries).
BuddyPress group Jobs tab now correctly filters jobs to that group's board. The previous defaultBoardId block attribute was undeclared and silently dropped.
Visual alignment issues on the single-page job form (salary row breaking awkwardly, remote-deadline pair misaligning, button placement).
Dev
New filter wcb_board_options_for_employer( array $options, int $user_id ) lets Pro and integrators restrict the job-form Boards picker.
New filter wcb_page_needs_frontend_assets( bool $needs ) lets contexts that render WCB blocks outside post_content (BuddyPress profile and group tabs, page builders that lazy-render) opt into the shared frontend stylesheets so primitives like .wcb-hidden resolve.
Compat
Aligned with WP Career Board Pro 1.2.0. Install both updates together.
v1.0.2
April 14, 2026
New 2 Improve 3 Fix 15
New
Reign Theme dark-mode support - every WCB component (Find Jobs, Find Candidates, employer/candidate dashboards, companies archive, job and resume singles) re-colors cleanly when Reign's `html.dark-mode` class is active, driven by a new `html.dark-mode` token layer in `frontend.css` that maps `--wcb-*` to dark values.
BuddyX Pro theme integration - WCB now inherits BuddyX Pro's theme palette (buttons, cards, borders, text, backgrounds) in both light and dark mode via a token bridge in `integrations/buddyxpro/assets/buddyx-compat.css` that re-maps `--wcb-*` to BuddyX Pro's own variables. WCB primary buttons pick up BuddyX Pro's customizer button color automatically.
Improve
Semantic dark-mode token layer - `--wcb-bg-subtle`, `--wcb-bg-hover`, `--wcb-text-secondary`, `--wcb-text-tertiary`, `--wcb-avatar-bg` all get dark variants under `html.dark-mode`, plus translucent `rgba(...)` variants of `--wcb-success-bg`, `--wcb-warning-bg`, `--wcb-danger-bg`, and `--wcb-info-bg` so status badges stay readable on dark cards.
Listings card typography rebalanced - title bumped to ~19px, description shrunk and muted, card body gap widened, badge contrast retuned to WCAG AA on every background, and the title link tap target raised above the WCAG 2.5.5 AAA threshold.
Accessibility pass - replaced 33 `outline: none` focus-strip sites with `outline: 2px solid transparent` so focus indicators show in Windows High Contrast / forced-colors mode, added missing form labels and ARIA labels across admin and block templates, and gave Interactivity API anchor stubs static aria-labels that hydrate at runtime.
Fix
BuddyX Pro integration never actually loaded - the directory `integrations/buddyx-pro/` was hyphenated but the PSR-4 autoloader expected the case-folded namespace segment `buddyxpro`, so `BuddyxProIntegration::boot()` silently never ran and no BuddyX compatibility CSS was enqueued on BuddyX Pro sites. Directory renamed and paths updated.
BuddyX Pro enqueue gate only matched `wcb_job` singular / archive - now mirrors the Reign gate and enqueues compatibility CSS on every WCB CPT (`wcb_job`, `wcb_application`, `wcb_company`, `wcb_resume`) and any page embedding a `wp-career-board/*` or `wcb/*` block.
Find-jobs page heading (`.wcb-page-heading`) was flush against the filter chip bar - added `margin-block-start: var(--wcb-space-2xl)` (`lg` on ≤640px) so the heading has breathing room above the search + chips row.
Avatar initials on job cards, company cards, job single header, and company profile headers were rendering dark-on-dark in dark mode because the letter color bound to `var(--wcb-base)` which flips to the card color. Letters now hardcoded to white - avatar backgrounds are always a dark slate regardless of mode.
`.wcb-page-heading` hardcoded `color: #0f172a` - now uses `var(--wcb-contrast)` so it flips with dark mode instead of staying dark on a dark body.
Reign compatibility stylesheet hardcoded `color: #475569 !important` on `.wcb-load-more-btn` and `color: #0f172a` on `.wcb-clear-all:hover` - now token-driven via `var(--wcb-text-secondary)` and `var(--wcb-contrast)` so dark-mode styling flows through.
`.wcb-cbadge--type`, `.wcb-cbadge--exp`, and `.wcb-cbadge--location` on job cards hardcoded `#475569` text - now token-driven so the dark-mode surface/text pair stays readable.
Current-page WCB block detector (`current_page_has_wcb_block()`) only matched `wp-career-board/*` block comments - now also matches pro `wcb/*` block comments so pages that embed only pro blocks correctly enqueue `wcb-frontend`, `wcb-frontend-tokens`, and `wcb-frontend-components`.
Reign integration enqueue gate used a hardcoded list of four free-plugin block names - now triggers on any WCB CPT or any `wp-career-board/*` / `wcb/*` block comment so `reign-compat.css` loads on pro-only pages too.
Candidate dashboard had two cyclic CSS custom property declarations (`--wcb-bg-subtle: var(--wcb-bg-subtle, #f8fafc)` and the equivalent for `--wcb-text-secondary`) that resolved to the guaranteed-invalid value in Chrome and left `.wcb-main` with a transparent background, so the dashboard wrapper looked unframed next to the employer dashboard. Local re-declarations removed - both dashboards now cascade identical tokens from `:root`.
Candidate dashboard now gates access via the `wcb_access_candidate_dashboard` ability - employers can no longer reach the candidate dashboard.
Job listings search input filtering on the Find Jobs page now matches the `wcb:search` event contract dispatched by the search block (`params.query`), and the listings hydrate from the `wcb_search` URL parameter.
Company industry field is now a single source of truth - both the employer dashboard and the admin meta box render the same dropdown of 16 predefined industries from `WCB\Core\Industries::all()`.
`wcb-btn--primary` and other variant text colors no longer get clobbered by the wrapper-scoped theme isolation reset - the reset no longer overrides per-variant `color`.
EDD SL SDK `plugins_api_filter` no longer fatals on PHP 8+ when the licensing API call fails and the cache is empty (`Attempt to assign property "plugin" on false`).
v1.0.1
Improve 2 Fix 2
Improve
PHPStan config optimized with explicit source paths.
CI pipeline streamlined to PHP Lint + PHPStan.
Fix
WPCS formatting cleanup across entire codebase (tabs, braces, spacing).
Hardcoded localhost URLs replaced with home_url() in seed data.
v1.0.0
New 11
New
Initial release.
Gutenberg block-first job board with WordPress Interactivity API.
Employer and candidate frontend dashboards.
Full application tracking with five statuses.
Guest applications support.
Company profiles.
BuddyPress and Reign Theme integration.
reCAPTCHA v3 and GDPR export/erasure support.
JobPosting schema.org structured data.
REST API with WordPress Abilities API permissions.
Automatic updates via wbcomdesigns.com.
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