Adding to job page and slowness

How do I add the social media share icons to the individual job listings?

Sharing icons aren’t built into WP Job Manager by default.

It’s most likely that you have some other plugins that’s adding them to your site, in which case you’ll probably need to consult the documentation to see how to add sharing icons to individual posts of a custom post type.

How do I make comments available on the individual job listing pages?

Assuming you allow comments on your site in general, you can download and install this plugin to allow comments on new and existing job listings:

https://gist.github.com/e6eb9499987dc95e541b

When I click on the Jobs (results) page, it loads kind of slowly – more so than my other pages. Is there a reason for this, or way to speed things up?

Without actually seeing your site, it’s hard for me to provide an answer here.

You could have a ton of jobs slowing the query down. Your host could be under a DDoS attack (or just slow all the time). Your connection to your host might be lagging, etc etc.

There are many reasons why things could be slow. If you link me to your site I can take a look, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to tell you much.

Thanks!

Hi Adam

I will work on finding documentation for the social media icons. For the gist link, is this a code you created? And is this something I enter into my editor – I’m not sure where it would go.

As for the third question, the page experiencing the slowness is https://www.animaljobsdigest.com/jobs/

Thanks for your help.

I’m not sure where it would go.

Install it as a plugin by following this guide:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation

As for the slowness, I loaded this URL:

https://www.animaljobsdigest.com/jobs/

… and it was actually fairly fast for me. You are displaying quite a few jobs though, so maybe try cutting down on that by using the “per_page” parameter of the [jobs] shortcode. Documentation here:

https://wpjobmanager.com/document/shortcode-reference/

Let me know if that helps. ??

I’m confused as to where to find the “per_page” parameter. Also, I thought I could change these via the Settings option under “Job Listings.”

Should I reduce the number of my own listings (those who directly submit to me), the Indeed jobs, or both? Thanks.

This is the response I received from Elegant:

“you can enable Monarch on custom post types, but the page you refer above is not a post type but a custom page generated from plugin. Its not possible to enable Monarch on a custom page”

I was under the impression the individual job listings were considered posts, not pages.

If they are pages, then it looks like I won’t be able to add Monarch social icons to these. Are there other options available?

Thanks.

I’m confused as to where to find the “per_page” parameter.

On the page where you have the [jobs] shortcode, you can change it to be something like [jobs per_page="20"] or some other number.

That’ll be how many jobs show up on one page, which dictates how much information your site has to fetch before it can load, which affects the speed.

Should I reduce the number of my own listings (those who directly submit to me), the Indeed jobs, or both?

This is up to you. ??

I was under the impression the individual job listings were considered posts, not pages.

They are considered “posts” in the sense that they are a single instance of a custom post type, yes. So you can put the icons on individual job listings.

The job listing page though *is* a custom page, so I guess you cannot put Monarch’s buttons there.

Thanks, Adam. Do you have any suggestions on which social media icons work on individual job listing pages with your program?

Do you have any suggestions on which social media icons work on individual job listing pages with your program?

If the plugin is adding the icons to the custom post type correctly, any button should work just fine. ??

Do you believe this is a function that may be added in the future – a workaround that will let us add Monarch social media icons to individual job pages/posts? Thanks.

Do you believe this is a function that may be added in the future – a workaround that will let us add Monarch social media icons to individual job pages/posts?

Wait… Didn’t we just figure out that Monarch can add social media icons to individual job pages? You said that Elegant Themes sent you this in an email:

“you can enable Monarch on custom post types, but the page you refer above is not a post type but a custom page generated from plugin. Its not possible to enable Monarch on a custom page”

Using my test site as an example, that means that Monarch’s icons cannot go here:

https://adamkheckler.wpsandbox.me/jobs/

… which is the main Jobs page. But they can go here:

https://adamkheckler.wpsandbox.me/job/testing-replace-image-stuff-16-job-approve-2/

… which is an individual job’s page (i.e. a custom post type).

To do this, you just need to figure out how, within Monarch, to enable their icons on custom post types, and then enable them for the job listing custom post type.

I have the opposite issue as specified in your example above: I can put Monarch social icons on the main jobs page, but not on the individual job/custom posts.

Yes, I’ve studied the Monarch plugin pretty thoroughly, but perhaps I’m missing something. What that is, I’m not certain. There’s some disconnect and I’m not sure what that is.

Thank you.

I was using Monarch myself for this a while ago, and since it’s a relatively simple fix I figured I’d chime in and offer some help.

In Monarch’s settings go to “Social Sharing” and select the location that you are using. In my example I’ve selected “Sidebar.” You would then click on Sidebar’s settings and scroll to the bottom. Just above the save button you have the option as to which post types you would like to have the sharing buttons. Just check the box for “job_listing” to allow it to appear on the individual jobs, and save. That’s it! ??

Here’s a screenshot of possible options: https://cl.ly/image/1S300Y1I0Y1o/Image%202015-11-05%20at%2011.04.04%20PM.png

Hope that helps!

Hi Adam,

Thanks so much for taking the time to chime in . . .I really appreciate it. I will take a look and see if this helps. : )

Thanks again for your help. I tried it (and believe I’ve tried this before) but it doesn’t seem to help. I appreciate your taking the time to help, though.