Disappointment and time lost

  • yaruha

    (@yaruha)


    2 months ago

    WP Job Manager is a total disaster for any website aiming for a modern and professional look. The outdated, unattractive design of the job listings is a major turn-off for visitors. After trying to integrate it into popular WordPress themes like Avada, Astra, and Divi, I was met with a terrible result: the site looked cheap and unprofessional. To fix it to a decent standard, I would have to spend a fortune on a designer and developer.

    The plugin developers must be living in the past because they’ve failed to update the design to meet current standards.This has led to a surge of scammers selling their ‘premium’ themes for WP Job Manager on platforms like ThemeForest. I personally bought Cariera, Jobify, and WorkScout – all of which turned out to be empty promises. These themes are unstable, display inconsistently across different browsers, and conflict with other essential WordPress plugins. Reaching out to the developers is like shouting into the void.

    But the biggest issue is that WP Job Manager is completely unsuitable for niche-specific job boards. The lack of ability to add custom fields and filters is a crime for a plugin like this. I’ve had to resort to using additional plugins like WP Job Manager Field Editor and Search and Filtering for WP Job Manager, but they’re just as buggy as the main plugin. And their developer never responds to support tickets. Developers, wake up! You’ve created a product that nobody needs in this state.

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  • Plugin Support Deric (a11n)

    (@dericleeyy)

    Hi @yaruha

    Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on WP Job Manager. We genuinely appreciate your feedback, as it helps us understand our users’ experiences and expectations.

    We recognize that the design and integration of our plugin can be challenging, especially when combined with certain themes. WP Job Manager is an open-source plugin designed to provide specific job board features while also allowing for customization and extension to meet niche-specific needs.

    We welcome any specific feature requests you might have, as your input is invaluable in guiding our development efforts. Please feel free to share your suggestions at https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/issues.

    We understand that some of your frustrations stem from the themes and additional plugins you’ve tried, which can sometimes lead to conflicts outside our control. We aim to provide a solid core experience, and we do offer a bundle of plugins to enhance functionality.

    Regarding support, we encourage users with subscriptions to reach out directly to us for assistance. For those without a subscription, our support forums are available and monitored by our community. We want to ensure you have the help you need.

    Thank you again for your feedback.

    @yaruha

    thanks for the input, i feel you without ever really used the wp job manager plugin. i gained your expirience with some other shitty “job board plugins” and “job board themes”. the “WP Job Manager Field Editor/Search and Filtering for WP Job Manager” are obviously 3rd party plugins. for me, they look functionally very extensive, but yes, some type of outdated. are they really so bad?

    have you come to other job board solutions in the meantime? whats your plan?

    @josephapeke

    thank you, too. you mean, crafting a job board completely without any custom pre-made “job board plugin”, right? well, im currently trying to do the same, building a fast and light-weight board with (roughly) gutenberg + ACF + wpforms elite (user registration/login backend, wpforms post submission addon for job + application submit)

    well, there are from time to time some small issues im facing, like:
    – editing the job postings (custom post types) from the frontend
    – job postings with expiry date
    – one free job for every logged-in user
    – schema.org (jobposting schema) for the job pages

    does elementor pro have anything (only functionally, not for design!) which gutenberg + wpforms dont have?

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