ikanaspencer

Maybe it would be better for me to tell you. We want to change the checkout order that the employer can select their package and then pay immediately before posting the job.

If we want to stick to the conventions of WP-Job-Manager what is the best way to do this?

We have used SearchWP and FacetWP to overcome some of these problems. SearchWP does word stemming and weighting of terms and their location. I think this limitation is not with WP-Job-Manager but is with WordPress itself.

Thank you for the resources I will check into them.

I had an almost working solution that is basically this code:

in the functions.php of the child theme:

function implement_ajax() {
if(isset($_POST['main_catid']))
			{
			$categories=  get_categories('child_of='.$_POST['main_catid'].'&hide_empty=0');
			  foreach ($categories as $cat) {
				$option .= '<option value="'.$cat->term_id.'">';
				$option .= $cat->cat_name;
				$option .= ' ('.$cat->category_count.')';
				$option .= '</option>';
			  }
			  echo '<option value="-1" selected="selected">Sub Categories</option>'.$option;
			die();
			} // end if
}
add_action('wp_ajax_my_special_ajax_call', 'implement_ajax');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_my_special_ajax_call', 'implement_ajax');//for users that are not logged in.

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));
}

For the job-submit.php template I added the following

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
			$('#main_cat').change(function(){
					var $mainCat=$('#main_cat').val();

					// call ajax
					 $("#sub_cat").empty();
												$.ajax({
														url:"<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",
														type:'POST',
														data:'action=my_special_ajax_call&main_catid=' + $mainCat,

												   success:function(results)
													   {
														//  alert(results);
														$("#sub_cat").removeAttr("disabled");
														  $("#sub_cat").append(results);
														}
												   });

										  }
										  );
});
										  </script>

wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=0&selected=-1&hierarchical=1&depth=1&hide_empty=0&exclude=1&show_option_none=Main Categories&name=main_cat');
?>

This got us a start but now we have made some changes that look like this.

$category_args = array(
		'orderby' => 'name',
		'order' => 'ASC',
		'hide_empty' => false,
		'fields' =>	'id=>name',
	);
	$category_args1 = $category_args;
	$category_args1['parent'] = 0;
	$job_categories1 = get_terms('job_listing_category', $category_args1);

    $fields['job']['_job_cat1'] = array(
        'label'     => __( 'Cat1', 'wp-job-manager' ),
        'type'      => 'select',
        'options' 	=> $job_categories1,
        'required'    => true,
        'placeholder' => '',
        'priority'    => 3.1,
    );

	$category_args2 = $category_args;
	/*$category_args2['parent'] = 1;*/
	$job_categories2 = get_terms('job_listing_category', $category_args2);

    $fields['job']['_job_cat2'] = array(
        'label'     => __( 'Cat2', 'wp-job-manager' ),
        'type'      => 'select',
        'options' 	=> $job_categories2,
        'required'    => true,
        'placeholder' => '',
        'priority'    => 3.2,
    );

	$category_args3 = $category_args;
	/*$category_args3['parent'] = 2;*/
	$job_categories3 = get_terms('job_listing_category', $category_args3);

    $fields['job']['_job_cat3'] = array(
        'label'     => __( 'Cat3', 'wp-job-manager' ),
        'type'      => 'select',
        'options' 	=> $job_categories3,
        'required'    => true,
        'placeholder' => '',
        'priority'    => 3.3,
    );

    return $fields;
}

/*
	wp_dropdown_categories('show_count=0&selected=-1&hierarchical=1&depth=1&hide_empty=0&exclude=1&show_option_none=Main Categories&name=main_cat&taxonomy=job_listing_category');
*/

function implement_ajax() {
    if(isset($_POST['main_catid']))
    {
        $categories=  get_categories('child_of='.$_POST['main_catid'].'&hide_empty=0&taxonomy=job_listing_category');
            foreach ($categories as $cat) {
            $option .= '<option value="'.$cat->term_id.'">';
            $option .= $cat->cat_name;
            $option .= ' ('.$cat->category_count.')';
            $option .= '</option>';
        }
        echo '<option value="-1" selected="selected">Sub Categories</option>'.$option;
        die();
    } // end if
}
add_action('wp_ajax_my_special_ajax_call', 'implement_ajax');

//add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_my_special_ajax_call', 'implement_ajax');//for users that are not logged in.

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));
}

// Add our own function to filter the fields
add_filter( 'submit_resume_form_fields', 'custom_submit_resume_form_fields' );

I am kind of lost by these changes but if you can guide me in a good direction I would appreciate it. Also if you just know of someone we can hire to do this right we are willing to go that rout. I posted in the wordpress job section but got so many low quality responses I have not been able to effectivly sort through them all.

Should I be linking to the plugin?

I just want to know how I can report them for review.