Official WPJobBoard Blog

Finally, after about a month of work WPJobBoard 3.2 is ready, if you read the previous post you should already know, what are improvements over 3.1, i won’t go into details here again, so just read WPJobBoard 3.2 and new logo post.

Few notes on upgrading from 3.1:

• To upgrade you can use automatic update utility, however if you won’t notice any changes in the admin panel (new menus etc), then you will need to upgrade manually (just download the whole thing and overwrite all files) even if the upgrader said that upgrade was complete
• 3.1 created directory “jobs” and 2 files in it. It’s no longer needed, after upgrading you should remove the directory or at least rename it.
• Version 3.2 is optimized for WordPress 3.0, so if you are still using 2.9, upgrade your WordPress installation first.
• Version 3.2 will create two WordPress pages “Jobs” and “Resumes”, both job board and resumes will be embeded into this pages so do not remove them.
• WPJB 3.2 will change your Job Board theme (it’s not the same as WordPress theme!) to twentyten.

I will also need to update manual, since the old one is outdated now.

I have been quite busy for the last month working on WPJobBoard 3.2 (it’s not ready yet, but it will definitely be available this month). Of course if you own WPJB 3.0+ than upgrade is completely free. I am very excited about upcoming release for few reasons.

First and for most, i have eliminated all the problems with theme integration, now it’s impossible for WPJB to break the theme, further more on activation WPJB will no longer copy files, so that eliminates problem with permissions on hosting server – so literally once, WPJobBoard 3.2 is released i can delete Troubleshooting guide in the manual.

Aside of that, in 3.2 there will be so many new features that WPJB functionality almost doubled, here is what’s new:

• Employer accounts – everyone who is logged in while posting a job will have access to his jobs later from the admin panel. From there he will be able to see job stats (page views, unique views and number of sent applications) and republish job with a single click
• Company Profiles – each employer will be able to create his company profile, basically this will be a page with company description and active company jobs (it will be accessible from job details page)
• Resumes – probably most awaited feature in WPJobBoard, every registered user will be able to post his resume (currently for free, in future maybe i will add paid option), while employers will be able to browse resumes. Admin will set who can browse resumes (everyone, members who requested resumes access, paid members – of course automatic payments processiong for resumes access is builtin, just set how much you want to charge per month).
• Anti Spam protection – simple system for anti spam protection on apply form, it works well on wpjobboard.net contact form, so i decided to include it in the plugin as well.

Other than that, WPJobBoard has now a logo. Beautifly designed by Nadir Balcikli (btw. if you are looking for logo designer, i can’t recommend Nadir services highly enough). You might be wandering (like me at the beginning) what it presents. If you look closer you will see it’s a tie which symbolizes a business which WPJobBoard is all about.

I am interested in your opinions, how do you like the logo?

I finished WPJobBoard 3.1 and now you can download it from the user panel.

What’s new? First of there is now automatic upgrade feature. When i will update the demo, in admin panel in the right bottom corner you will see new update notification. If there is a new version, then you will see message with latest version number and how long ago it was published. Message is updated once a hour to decrease bandwidth usage.

Second, on June 30th, Twitter is disabling basic authentication method. I was using it so i updated WPJobBoard code. Now it takes advantage of safer OAuth authorization. One drawback is that after update to WPJobBoard 3.1 you will have to go to job board configuration and update Twitter settings. I updated manual so you can check there how to do it.

Other then that, as usual i made some bug fixes, improvements and optimization so i recommend you to download the upgrade.

Finally i completed WPJobBoard Manual (tough work), probably i did not covered all the topics that could be covered, but i think that the most important ones or the least intuitive are there.

Obviously i did not write it for myself (i know how it all works ;>) so if you find something that is not described clearly enough or something that’s missing feel free to post about in comments and i will do my best to update the manual.

Finally (between doing support and preparing for ZCE) i managed to complete official site. First of all some of you might be disappointed because i decided there will be no affiliate program – at least for now. Mainly because it would be best if i would integrate it with e-junkie, plimus unfortunately i realized it to late.

Second there is no longer a “download page”, If you want to download WPJobBoard then go to login page and authenticate yourself using email and license number (basically you need to use the same data as for downloading).

Every client received 5% discount for future purchases (i am thinking about increasing it, but for now it’s 5%).

WPJobBoard 2.3 is no longer in sale (but it still can be downloaded), which means that WPJobBoard 3.0 became stable. The last change you’ll notice is aside of “WPJB single site license” you can now buy “WPJB multi site license”.

Ok, i think that’s all. Next to come is long awaited manual for WPJobBoard 3.0, WPJB 2.3 had PDF manual, but for 3.0 i am thinking of online manual.

Finally (about a month late) i managed to release WPJobBoard 3.0 it’s still a beta version so i decided it will be best to leave WPJobBoard 2.3.2 in sale for now, although i encourage you get WPJB 3.0, the price is the same but amount of features and software flexibility is incomparable.

That reminds me that i have to create a new manual, for the new software to document all the features. However at least for now you can use WPJobBoard manual for troubleshooting, theme modifications and option descriptions, i will try to get live new manual as soon as possible.

If you want to see WPJobBoard 3.0 in action then you can go to demo page i uploaded there latest WPJB along with latest version of WordPress.

I did not create a list of people who wanted me to email them once i release WPJB 3.0, the list got quite long so i am not sure if i notified everyone. If you were on the list and i did not let you know please take my apologize.

Today i made some changes to the website, now in download section it is possible to select which version you want to download. Currently there are three: 2.3.1, 2.3.2 and 3.0.0. Most of the job boards are running now 2.3.1, i recommend you to upgrade to 2.3.2, there were just 3 small bug fixes. When you do that it’s extremely important that you do not overwrite your settings in /wp-content/jobs/config directory.

Like i wrote it’s possible to download version 3.0.0, but it’s not yet possible to buy it, i am still testing the package and when i will be confident that it’s okay, i will release it, probably as a beta version. I will try to do that on Monday.

I used to update you on development status with my old Twitter account (http://twitter.com/wpjobboard), currenlty if you access this URL, you will see some random jobs posted, that’s a WPJobBoard 3.0 at work or more accurately automatic job import, url shortening and job tweeting at work.

I no longer use that account aside of testing WPJobBoard functionality. If you would like to follow me on Twitter use my new account http://twitter.com/GregWiniarski

It’s mainly for personal stuff and communication but there WPJobBoard updates will be probably posted there as well.