For about week now WPJobBoard payments are processed via Avangate (some of you might notice when trying to make a purchase). There are couple of reasons for such change.

First of Avangate has rock solid security confirmed with SSL certificate (which small software vendor can only imagine buying), secondly Avangate offers multiple payment options from PayPal and major credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and etc.) to purchase orders, but most importantly in case of problems 24/7 Avangate support will make sure you will receive the plugin on-time (that is instantly after payment).

Avangate makes it easy to run affiliate program as well, if you are interested in becoming WPJobBoard affiliate just drop me an email, using contact form.

Vesion 3.5.2 was just released and as always can be downloaded from client panel. This is minor release with mainly with bug fixes so if you are using version 3.5.0 or 3.5.1 it’s a recommended update, also if you are waiting for a stable WPJobBoard version to update i would say that this is it.

Aside of bug fixes, version 3.5.2 has two small but highly anticipated features:

1. document upload in candidate resume form (currently there was only image upload possible)
2. ability to hide whole resumes from unprivileged users (instead of just the contact details)

For complete list of changes please see the changlog.

WPJobBoard 3.5.1 was just released and can be downloaded, it has mainly fixes to bugs found in previous version, so if you are running WPJB 3.5.0 it is a recommended update for you.

Here is a shortlist of most important changes:

• [Feature] Allow utf-8 characters in URL slug
• [Feature] wpjb_is_routed_to() function
• [Bug] reCAPTCHA crashing when data not filled correctly
• [Bug] Number of employer posted jobs not counted correctly
• [Bug] Buying resumes access crashes
• [Bug] Fixed Google Maps size

WPJobBoard 3.5.0 is available for download in client panel. Due to unforeseen events, unfortunately the update is not as big as i would like, but i think you will still find some interesting features and updates.

As always please keep in mind that 3.X.0 release is a beta version, so while for the most part it’s safe to use it, before updating please backup your site and test job board after updating.

Below is a full list of changes

• [Feature] Google Maps integration with jobs
• [Feature] Extended company location in company profile
• [Feature] Edit Job/Resume link in Admin Bar, this is small update but i think it will be huge UI improvment for job board owners
• [Feature] Pending items in wp-admin sidebar
• [Feature] Pending job, resume email templates
• [Feature] Custom RSS feeds
• [Feature] States and city autocomplete in frontend and backed
• [Feature] Listing type descriptions
• [Feature] Payment method API
• [Feature] reCAPTCHA integration
• [Feature] Search jobs by advanced fields API
• [Change] Removed wp-admin update module
• [Bug] Removed “new image” styling
• [Feature] Google Maps integration with jobs
• [Feature] Extended company location in company profile
• [Feature] Edit Job/Resume link in Admin Bar
• [Feature] Pending items in wp-admin sidebar
• [Feature] Pending job, resume email templates
• [Feature] Custom RSS feeds
• [Feature] States autocomplete in frontend and backed
• [Feature] Listing type descriptions
• [Feature] Payment method API
• [Feature] reCAPTCHA integration
• [Feature] Search jobs by advanced fields API
• [Change] Removed wp-admin update module
• [Bug] Removed “new image” styling
• [Bug] Incorrectly displaying employers list in wp-admin

I was getting some emails with questions along the lines of “Is WPJobBoard compatible with WordPress 3.3?”, so i thought i would address it on the blog. WPJobBoard is fully compatible with WP 3.3 (it goes for new blog installs and blog upgrades), and for the most part it’s safe to upgrade to latest version of WordPress. However, as always, when updating please make a database backup first, so you can rever to older version if something goes wrong.

In the meantime, i am happy to anounce that WPJB 3.5 will be ready for download this month. It doesn’t have as many updates as i would like to (due to problems with my development machine), but i think it’s still a nice update. There will be a whole post about new version, here i will just list some of the most interesting features: Google Maps integration, reCAPTCHA integration in apply forms, pending items in wp-admin sidebar, payment method api, even more advanced search.

Version 3.4.5 was just released. As usually with minor updates there are no exciting new features. This is rather maintenance release with a couple of small bug fixes. Among others one change  that is worth mentioning is redesign of how Job Board menu and Resumes Menu widgets work.

Previously, if user was logged in as an Employer, Resumes Menu did not displayed Candidate login/registration links and vice versa (when user was logged in as Candidate, Job Board Menu did not displayed Employer login/registration links). This was quite confusing for quite  a lot of users so i decided to redesign how menus work. In new version when Employer is logged in the login/register links for candidate are still visible, but when Employer clicks on them he will see an error saying that he is already logged in as an Employer. I hope this one small change will make WPJobBoard more usable to everyone.

Version 3.4.4 is ready for download. In the update one of the most requested features was added. Indeed and plain XML jobs import, so currently there are 3 import methods available: CareerBuilder, Indeed and import from XML file.

The Indeed import was most requested feature for a while now. since many users claim it provides best search results, however i do not like it that much, because it returns only 256 characters from job description. As for the XML import i think that everyone who wishes to migrate to WPJB will find this useful. Exact XML scheme is described in Knowledge Base.

Aside of the import 3.4.4 contains 2 small bug fixes (no other bugs were found), which makes the 3.4 branch pretty stable and recommended for production use.

WPJobBoard version 3.4.3 was just released. This is a recommended release for anyone who is already using version 3.4.X. New version contains two critical bug fixes (resumes paging in the backend and applications saving and listing).

Like with every WPJobBoard release there are also some new features:

• Administration area can be now fully translated from the WPJobBoard *.po file, so now you can have whole job board in your language not only the frontend
• Finally the widgets were rewrote and now you can use each widget more then once. (BTW. after updating you might need to configure again WPJB widgets, ie. add them to the sidebar)
• Some source code refactoring, which hopefully will allow me to develop future versions faster – which means more features for you.

If you are also using WPJobBoard Theme please download new version as well, there are few bug fixes for the AJAX API.

I hope you will enjoy the new release!

Yesterday WPJobBoard 3.4.2 was released with some bug fixes and improvements if you are running version 3.4, then it is a recommended upgrade for you. Aside of bug fixes i also made some improvements in WPJobBoard JSON API which allowed me to add live search feature to WPJB Theme (if you do not know what live search is check how Google search works, it’s pretty much the same).

The JSON API is quite powerful i’ve got to tell you, it allows to search jobs be keyword/location, date posted, multiple categories and multiple job types at once (there is also similar API for resumes browsing).

By default “normal” search is enabled so when you select WPJobBoard-Theme on your themes list, you need to go to theme options and enable live search. If you would like to check it visit job board demo.