Search button on Jobs page

Hi @dollhauss,

Are you using the ZipRecruiter Integration, by any chance? If you’re using only the ZipRecruiter shortcode to list jobs on your site, no keyword search box or location search box will appear above the listings.

Please see our documentation here:

https://wpjobmanager.com/document/ziprecruiter-integration/#section-5

Another note — we’re not able to support our paid addons in this forum. Please use the form I’ve linked below for further support for the ZipRecruiter Integration addon, if applicable:

https://wpjobmanager.com/support/

Make sure to contact us from the email address you used when you purchased your license(s), so we’re able to find your account.

Cheers!

Hiya @jenhooks

No I’m not using any addons – just vanilla WP Job Manager.

It’s the ‘Search Button’ I’m trying to add – not the keyword and location box, they are there by default. Adding using the [jobs] shortcode.

I’m assuming I need to customize the job-filters.php file to add input type=”search”.
I just cannot find any information online in regard to this?

Cheers!

Hey @dollhauss,

Ah, thanks for clarifying! This would require customization — as it sounds like you’ve already assumed — which is outside of the scope of the support that we offer, per our Support Policy:

https://wpjobmanager.com/support-policy/.

It’s been brought up here, and we have an open enhancement issue here, which I’ve added this thread to.

Note that there are WP Job Manager themes that already have the search button added. You might consider one of those.

If you need it, you can search for development help in a variety of places — here are a few to start:

https://jobs.wordpress.net/
https://jetpack.pro/
https://codeable.io/?ref=l1TwZ

I’ll leave this open for a few days in case there’s someone else in the community who would like to chime in and lend a hand.

Best of luck.

Cheers @jenhooks,

No problem, I’ll create the custom code required.
I just wanted to make sure there wasn’t an addon or tutorial already out there that covered this before I dedicated time to creating a search button.

It does seem funny that your demo for WP Job Manager includes a search button yet it is impossible to have this functionality without heavy custom coding.

If the solution is fairly straight forward I’ll also leave my findings here.

Thanks! ??

It does seem funny that your demo for WP Job Manager includes a search button yet it is impossible to have this functionality without heavy custom coding.

Fair point — we’re using a premium theme on the demo, and it happens to be one that has the search button built-in.

Cheers!

Howdy!

I’m marking this thread as Resolved, since it’s been more than a month since the last reply. If you still need help, definitely let us know here, and mark the thread Unresolved.

Cheers.

Heya,

I wouldn’t really class this as resolved at all.

For a plugin that has searching as one of it’s primary functions.
To not include a search button without hiring a 3rd party developer (even when your demos showcase a search button) is pretty bizzare.

You can surely see how many problems this can cause – especially for users on mobile devices.

I’d only class this as resolved once you have either added a search button to the plugin or made an explicit note on the demo page to state that a search button is not available.

I understand you want to close topics to keep things neat but I think this should be kept open for other users to comment.

Cheers.

Hi! Despite your last comment, I will mark this as resolved again; the plugin does not come with that type of Button, the theme generates it. As such, there’s nothing further for us to do here. If you wish, you can open an issue on Github if you have any suggestions:

https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/issues/new

Thanks!

How can this be marked as resolved? The plugin does not come with a search button. Until it does, the issue is NOT RESOLVED. The absence of something as significant as a search button is significant, and all but renders the whole plugin useless. If you want to keep things tidy on your support forum, then either create an open issue on Github yourselves, or better still, add a search button to the plugin! Furthermore, displaying the plugin with a search button in your demo, is misleading to the point of fraudulent. Until this issue is resolved with a search button added to the plugin, the demo should be changed to reflect reality – i.e. that it has no search button.

I thought I must have missed some option to enable search button, sad to know they don’t have it integrated in their plugin, which is ridiculous.

Hi everyone! I just wanted to point out that a Search button is in the works. You can follow the progress here:

https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/issues/1409
https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/pull/1708

Hey Richard @richardmtl

This is fantastic news!!

Thanks so much for updating us here. ??