Title: IQ Jobs Manager Author: pritam02b Published: August 19, 2026 Last modified: August 19, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/iq-jobs-manager/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=3654495) # IQ Jobs Manager By [pritam02b](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pritam02b/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/iq-jobs-manager.3.0.31.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-jobs-manager/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-jobs-manager/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-jobs-manager/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-jobs-manager/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/iq-jobs-manager/) ## Description IQ Jobs Manager adds a “Job Opening” post type with a simple classic-editor admin screen (title + one form for location, type, salary, deadline, etc. — no page-builder or block-editor knowledge required), a public Careers page you set up by picking pages in Settings (no shortcodes to add), a secure application pipeline (resumes are never stored at a public URL and are only ever emailed as an attachment or downloaded through a login-gated link), and HR tools for tracking and exporting applications. #### Displaying content on your site Go to **Job Openings > Settings** and pick a page for “Job Listings Page” and/or“ General Application Form Page”. The content appears there automatically — nothing to paste into the page editor. If you’d rather place things manually, two block-editor blocks are also available—“ Job Listings” and “Job Application Form” — searchable from the block inserter. The classic shortcodes still work too, for page builders or older themes: `[career_jobs]`( job listing with Apply buttons) and `[career_form]` (the general application form). #### Admin * **Job Openings > Add New** — HR fills in one form (description, location, type, experience, salary, openings, skills, deadline) and clicks Publish. * **Job Openings > Form Fields** — toggle/relabel which fields appear on the application form, and add custom fields (label + type — the internal field name is generated automatically). * **Job Openings > Settings** — pick the Job Listings / Application Form pages, set the HR notification email, and configure uninstall data behavior. * **Applications** — view submissions, change status (New / Reviewed / Interview/ Hired / Rejected), download resumes, export to CSV. Each application also records the applicant’s IP address and browser (user agent) to help spot spam patterns. * **Job Openings > Analytics** — page views, Apply clicks, submission attempts/ successes/failures, overall and broken down per job, over the last 7/30/90 days or all time. ### External services This plugin can optionally connect to Google reCAPTCHA to help protect the application forms (the Apply modal and the general application form) from spam and automated submissions. It is **off by default** and only takes effect if you enable it and enter your own site key and secret key under Job Openings > Settings > reCAPTCHA. When enabled: * The applicant’s browser loads Google’s reCAPTCHA script (`https://www.google. com/recaptcha/api.js`) so the widget can render (v2) or a token can be generated( v3). * When the applicant submits the form, the site sends the reCAPTCHA response token and the applicant’s IP address to Google’s verification endpoint (`https://www. google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify`) to confirm the submission wasn’t automated. * When an administrator saves a reCAPTCHA secret key in Settings, the site makes one request to the same Google endpoint to confirm the key is valid. This service is provided by Google LLC: [Terms of Service](https://policies.google.com/terms) | [Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy) No other third-party/remote service is contacted by this plugin. ## Blocks This plugin provides 2 blocks. * Job Application Form The general job application form. * Job Listings Job listing with search/filter and Apply buttons. ## Installation 1. Upload the `iq-jobs-manager` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. 3. Go to Job Openings > Settings, set the HR notification email, and pick your Job Listings and Application Form pages. ## FAQ ### Do I need to add shortcodes to my pages? No. Pick a “Job Listings Page” and/or “General Application Form Page” in Job Openings > Settings and the content appears there automatically. Shortcodes (`[career_jobs]`,`[ career_form]`) and block-editor blocks are also available if you’d rather place things manually. ### Where are submitted resumes stored? In a private subfolder of your uploads directory (`wp-content/uploads/iqjoma-private- resumes/`), under a randomly generated filename and blocked from direct access. Resumes are never given a public URL — they can only be downloaded from wp-admin( Applications screen) by a logged-in Administrator via a capability- and nonce-checked link, or received as an email attachment if HR notification emails are enabled. ### Who can see submitted applications? Only Administrators, by default (not Editors, Authors, or Contributors), since applications contain applicant PII (name, email, phone, resume). ### Is Google reCAPTCHA required? No. It’s off by default. You can enable it (v2 checkbox or v3 invisible) from Job Openings > Settings > reCAPTCHA with your own Google reCAPTCHA site/secret keys. See “External services” below for what that sends to Google. ### What happens to my data if I delete the plugin? By default, nothing is deleted — job openings, applications, resumes, and settings are all kept. Deletion only happens if you explicitly enable “Delete data on uninstall” in Settings before removing the plugin. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “IQ Jobs Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ pritam02b ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pritam02b/) [Translate “IQ Jobs Manager” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/iq-jobs-manager) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iq-jobs-manager/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/iq-jobs-manager/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/iq-jobs-manager/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/iq-jobs-manager/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 3.0.31 * Plugin Check: the custom application-field values array is inherently sanitized per-element further down (the right sanitizer depends on each field’s configured type, known only inside that loop), so there’s no single sanitizer that could apply at the point the array is first read — documented with an inline justification instead of restructuring further. #### 3.0.30 * Re-ran Plugin Check after 3.0.29 and fixed what it still caught: a translators comment that had drifted away from its printf() call (a phpcs:ignore line got inserted between them), two wp_dropdown_pages() calls where a single-line ignore comment didn’t reach the flagged values nested inside its multi-line array argument( now bracketed with phpcs:disable/enable instead), a card_button_text field now sanitized once into a variable instead of re-reading $_POST across two branches, custom application-form field values now unslashed at the array level, and the CSV export date filters now read $_GET once per key instead of multiple times across a ternary. #### 3.0.29 * Addressed the full Plugin Check report: a few remaining unescaped values (including one only reachable via printf(), which the earlier manual review pass missed), several missing wp_unslash() calls, replaced direct filesystem calls (unlink()/ rmdir()) in uninstall.php with WP_Filesystem, and prefixed uninstall.php’s local variables. Remaining Plugin Check warnings (custom-table direct queries, read- only GET filters without a nonce, a couple of confirmed-safe false positives) are left in place with an inline explanation at each one rather than worked around, since none of them are real issues. #### 3.0.28 * WordPress.org review follow-up: renamed the plugin’s internal prefix (options, hooks, post types, script/style handles, meta box IDs, etc.) from the too-short“ cjm”/”job” to “iqjoma” throughout, to avoid collisions with other plugins. All dynamic output that reaches an echo/print statement is now either escaped at the point of output or, where a helper method already escapes everything it builds internally (verified case by case), marked with an inline phpcs:ignore and a short justification instead of double-escaping already-safe HTML. * Sites that already had this plugin active before 3.0.28 are migrated automatically and once, the first time this version runs: existing settings, form field/custom field config, the Analytics history table, published jobs, and submitted applications are all moved over to the new names. Nothing is deleted and no action is needed. #### 3.0.27 * WordPress.org review follow-up: resumes now store under the uploads directory( via wp_upload_dir()) instead of a hardcoded wp-content path. The “Powered by” credit link now defaults off — site owners must explicitly opt in from Settings > General. Inline admin CSS/JS is now enqueued through wp_add_inline_style()/ wp_add_inline_script() instead of being echoed directly. Nonce values are sanitized before verification. Removed the no-longer-needed load_plugin_textdomain() call. Fixed the header short description’s shortcode wording to match the readme. #### 3.0.26 * Fixed WordPress.org automated plugin-check failures: both block.json files now declare apiVersion 3 (required for the WordPress 7.0+ iframed block editor), and the resume upload handler now moves the uploaded file via the WP_Filesystem API (with an explicit is_uploaded_file() check) instead of calling move_uploaded_file() directly. #### 3.0.25 * WordPress.org submission prep: added a GPL license header to the plugin’s main file, added External Services and FAQ sections to this readme, and removed a self-hosted-only “View details” popup that would have shadowed WordPress.org’s own plugin info screen once listed there. * The “Powered by IQ Jobs Manager” credit link (shown on the job listing, job detail, and application form pages) is now optional — toggle it off from Settings > General. Was previously always shown with no way to disable it. * Hardened CSV export against formula/CSV injection: applicant-supplied values ( name, message, custom field answers) are now prefixed with a leading quote if they start with a character (=, +, -, @) that spreadsheet apps could interpret as a formula when the export is opened. * Number of Openings is now stored as a plain integer instead of free text. * Minor: job posting structured data’s deadline now uses UTC rather than the server’s local timezone. #### 3.0.24 * Fixed shared job links showing this plugin’s own small “Powered by” logo in the link preview instead of the site’s own icon. Job posts have no featured image( no image field exists for them), so whatever generates the preview card was falling back to scanning the page and picking up our logo image instead. Jobs with no featured image now report the site’s own Site Icon (Settings > General > Site Icon) as their featured image, which is what virtually every SEO plugin/sharing platform checks first. #### 3.0.23 * Fixed the ID-prefixed job URL (e.g. /jobs/5433-growth-lead-job-25072026/) 404ing right after a job was published, even though the plain slug URL worked. The rewrite rule that recognizes the ID-prefixed format is generic (any ID + any slug) and normally only needs flushing once, but if a job got published before that flush had actually run for this site (e.g. right after a plugin update), its URL would 404 until something else happened to trigger a flush later. Now a flush also runs the moment a job is first published, closing that gap. #### 3.0.22 * Settings page now tests the reCAPTCHA secret key against Google when you save( if reCAPTCHA is enabled and a secret key is set), showing whether it looks valid or invalid right alongside the “Settings saved” notice. Settings are always saved regardless of the check result, so a typo doesn’t cost you your other changes— you get clear feedback and a chance to fix it, instead of only finding out when a real applicant’s submission fails. #### 3.0.21 * Fixed the grid card’s eye-icon badge not lining up with the title — it was absolutely positioned at a guessed pixel offset rather than actually being measured against the title, so title length/wrapping could throw the alignment off. Title and badge now share a flex row instead, keeping them level regardless. #### 3.0.20 * Fixed the hero paragraph’s margin-top (added last release) never actually applying when Elementor is active — the rule setting it used an “h1 + p” adjacent-sibling selector, but wrapping the heading in its own .elementor-widget-heading div ( an earlier fix) put a div between the h1 and the paragraph in the DOM, silently breaking that selector’s match. It’s now targeted by the paragraph’s own class instead, which doesn’t depend on exact DOM nesting. #### 3.0.19 * Added margin-top: 20px to the hero paragraph text (the rule setting its margin already existed and was explicitly zeroing out its top margin, so it needed updating directly there rather than a new rule elsewhere). #### 3.0.18 * Increased the gap between the hero section and the filter bar below it to 10rem total — 5rem of bottom padding on the hero plus 5rem of top margin on the filter bar (kept as margin rather than padding on the filter bar itself, so its own compact pill shape isn’t stretched out). #### 3.0.17 * Increased the gap between the hero heading and the text below it from 16px to 20px. #### 3.0.16 * Apply modal: the close “x” is now in a proper flex row with the title instead of being absolutely positioned in the box’s corner, so it’s reliably vertically centered against the heading text rather than floating above it. * Modal/form container padding no longer shrinks on small screens — it now stays the same at every width. * Added top spacing above the meta/Apply row on the overview page on mobile. * Removed the “Share:” label before the share icons. #### 3.0.15 * Found the actual source of the recurring hover/click color changes: the active theme (Astra) has its own global “button:hover, button:focus” rule that repaints background/text/border color on every plain element site-wide. Removing our own hover rules in earlier rounds wasn’t enough — it just left nothing to stop that theme rule from taking over instead. All 5 of our buttons (copy-link, Apply, Submit, filter Search, modal close) now explicitly pin their resting colors against it on hover/focus/active/click, and Apply/Submit no longer depend on the theme’s own “.button” class for their color, so there’s no more cascade-order gamble there either. #### 3.0.14 * Fixed the Job Listings page hero heading still not matching other Elementor-built pages’ heading weight/spacing/ color. It was correctly picking up Elementor’s site-wide default heading size, but not the bolder weight, tighter letter-spacing, and darker color other headings have — those come from a per-page Elementor override tied to that specific page’s own widget ID, which our heading (not a real Elementor- authored widget) has no way to match. Set the same values directly instead. #### 3.0.13 * Changed the filter bar’s Search button from blue to yellow with dark text, matching the Apply button’s color. * Grid card corner badge’s mobile top offset changed from 20px to 24px. #### 3.0.12 * The blue circle on the Apply modal’s close button on click wasn’t fixed by the previous round’s outline/tap- highlight reset — it’s most likely the theme’s own Bootstrap-style focus glow, which is a box-shadow ring, not an outline. Explicitly cleared box-shadow (and native button appearance) on the close button for every interaction state (hover/focus/active). #### 3.0.11 * Removed every hover-state color change on buttons (hero button, icon buttons/ share row, filter Search button, view button) — they’re now visually static on hover/click, no exceptions. * Killed the mobile browser’s own default blue tap-highlight/focus flash on buttons( a WebKit default we’d never explicitly turned off) — this is what was showing as a blue circle behind the Apply modal’s close “x”. * Fixed the Apply modal: a long job title wrapping to two lines could run underneath the close “x” button since no space was reserved for it; the heading now keeps clear of it. Increased the gap between form fields, and gave inputs slightly more breathing room (padding/corner radius). #### 3.0.10 * Fixed job card and list row titles (h5) also being subject to the active theme’s own responsive heading rule at narrower widths, same root cause as the hero heading fix in 3.0.9 — they now have an explicit font-size that can’t be overridden by it. * The grid card’s corner badge (the eye icon / “Applications Closed” label) now sits closer to the top on mobile (20px instead of 30px), matching the card’s own reduced mobile padding. * Fixed the “Powered by” line: only the icon links to iquesters.com now, not the whole “Powered by … Jobs Manager” line. #### 3.0.9 * Fixed the Job Listings page hero heading picking up the active theme’s generic mobile heading size instead of Elementor’s own heading typography when Elementor is active — the heading was using Elementor’s CSS classes but wasn’t wrapped in Elementor’s own widget container, so Elementor’s real (already-loaded) heading styles never actually matched it and the theme’s own responsive “h1” rule won by default instead. It’s now wrapped correctly so Elementor’s own styling takes over as intended. * The hero heading and text are now left-aligned on mobile instead of centered. * Removed the green “success” background/border the copy-link button switched to after a click — the “Copied!” tooltip already confirms the action, so the button itself no longer changes color. #### 3.0.7 * Removed the “|” separator between meta items (location/type/salary, posted-date/ experience, list-row meta, card meta) on small screens. No static CSS rule can tell where a flex row will actually wrap, so whenever only one item ended up alone on its own line, it still showed a stray pipe next to nothing. Below 600px the pipes are dropped entirely — each item already has its own icon, so the spacing alone reads fine without them. * Fixed a font-size mismatch on the overview page header: the location/type/salary row had no explicit font-size (inheriting the theme’s default) while the posted- date/experience row below it was set to 0.9em, so the two rows visibly rendered at different sizes. Both now use the same 0.9em. #### 3.0.6 * The “Powered by [icon] Jobs Manager” line shown on every plugin-rendered page now links to iquesters.com, the same way “Powered by WordPress” links to wordpress. org. * On the Plugins screen: the author is now “Iquester Solutions LLP” (linked to iquesters.com) instead of “Custom”, and there’s now a “View details” link next to it that opens the same details popup WordPress.org-hosted plugins get — this plugin isn’t on WordPress.org, so that popup is now hand-built from this readme instead. #### 3.0.5 * Fixed the “|” separator between meta items (location/type/salary, posted-date/ experience, list-row meta, card meta) leaving a stray hanging “|” at the start of a wrapped line on narrow screens. It was baked onto the front of each item, so when an item wrapped onto a new line, its leading “|” wrapped with it and landed with nothing before it. It’s now baked onto the end of each item instead( skipped on the last item), so it reads as normal trailing punctuation at the end of the previous line instead of a stray mark starting the new one. #### 3.0.4 * Openings + application deadline on the overview page now sit together under an“ Additional Information” heading with consistent spacing, instead of as two loose pills with inconsistent gaps between them. * Copy-link button: the icon now recolors on hover (previously only the background changed), and clicking it shows a small “Copied!” tooltip above the button instead of only updating the accessible label. * Rebuilt the job filter bar’s dropdown/submit styling to look like one cohesive component instead of a native select next to a theme-default button, and fixed a mobile layout bug where the search field could stretch to 240px tall (flex- basis meant for width was being applied as a height once the bar switched to a column layout). On mobile, the Type/Location dropdowns now share one line instead of stacking one per row. #### 3.0.3 * Fixed the overview page’s meta rows (location/type/salary and posted-date/experience) rendering in a different font on mobile than desktop — some themes/builders apply different responsive typography per breakpoint, which this text was just inheriting; it now uses a fixed font stack instead. * Reverted the mobile-only “stack one item per line” layout from the last release— it wasn’t actually needed: the “|” separator lives inside each item itself, so it already wraps together with its item instead of getting stranded. Mobile now wraps naturally (as many items as fit per line, “|” between each), same as desktop. #### 3.0.2 * “Openings” on the overview page restyled as a quiet rounded badge, matching the“ Apply by …” tag next to it instead of plain text. Also fixed a bug this surfaced: it shared a class with the meta-row items that get a “|” separator before them, which could incorrectly show a stray “|” in front of the badge. #### 3.0.1 * Restored the job title being moved inside the detail card, and the “|” separators in the overview page’s meta rows — both had been mistakenly removed in the previous release while fixing an unrelated loading flash. The flash is now fixed properly instead: the title move happens via a synchronous inline script positioned right after the card in the page HTML (runs while the browser is still parsing, before that part of the page is painted) rather than a DOMContentLoaded listener (which only runs after the whole page has already rendered). * Fixed the mobile bug that prompted the “|” removal properly this time: on narrow screens the meta rows now stack one item per line (so there’s no wrap point for a separator to get stranded at) instead of losing the separator on desktop too. #### 3.0.0 * Added an Analytics dashboard (Job Openings > Analytics): page views, Apply button clicks, submission attempts, successes, and failures — overall and broken down per job, with a 7/30/90-day or all-time range selector. Backed by a new database table, not third-party analytics. * Applications now record the applicant’s IP address and browser (user agent), shown on the application’s admin detail screen and included in CSV exports, to help HR spot spam patterns (e.g. many submissions from one IP/browser in a short window). * Resume uploads are now validated more strictly, both client- and server-side: max 10 MB, and PDF/Word only — the server-side check now sniffs actual file content, not just the file extension, and a rejected upload now shows a clear error instead of silently being dropped from the submission. #### 2.9.0 * Fixed the job title going invisible for a moment on page load — a previous version hid it via CSS and only revealed it after a script repositioned it, which looked broken (especially on a slow connection). The title now just stays in the theme’s normal position/visibility at all times; no more hide/move/reveal. * Plugin CSS/JS (and the reCAPTCHA script, if enabled) now only load on pages that actually use this plugin’s markup (the job overview page, the configured Job Listings/Application Form pages, or any page/post using the shortcodes or blocks manually) instead of on every page of the site. * The reCAPTCHA script now loads with the `async` attribute — as a third-party, cross-origin script, this was a likely real contributor to slow page loads when reCAPTCHA is enabled. #### 2.8.2 * Removed the light blue focus/click outline on the share icon buttons and the filter bar’s search/dropdown fields — both now use a neutral gray focus ring instead. #### 2.8.1 * Removed the background and shadow from the job filter bar. #### 2.8.0 * Fixed a mobile bug on the overview page where the top meta row (location/type/ salary) and the posted-info row could show a stray “|” separator stranded at the start of a wrapped line. Removed the “|” separator there entirely — each item already has its own icon, so it reads fine on plain spacing alone. * “Openings” moved out of the top posted-info row and now shows after Required Skills further down the page. #### 2.7.6 * List view meta (location/type/posted date) moved from the right side of the row to directly under the title, instead of sitting alongside it. #### 2.7.5 * List row corner radius reduced to 1rem (was 2rem, matching the grid card/other surfaces). #### 2.7.4 * List row meta now matches the grid card’s styling: “|” separators (was “•”), and the same muted color/size for the meta text — so both layouts read as one consistent design instead of two slightly different ones. #### 2.7.3 * Grid card meta line: added the missing clock icon before the job type, added a “Posted X ago” item (matching the list view), and switched the separator to“ |” between all three items. * Corner badge (the eye button) top offset increased to 30px. #### 2.7.2 * Removed the “Apply by …” deadline pill from listing cards (grid layout) — the excerpt already fills the card, and the full deadline is one click away on the job’s own page. * Fixed a bug where a narrow grid card could wrap the location/type meta line mid- separator, stranding the dot at the end of a line — location and type are now each a single unit that wraps as a whole. * Fixed list rows showing the job type twice (once as a subtitle under the title, once in the meta row) when no department taxonomy was set — the subtitle now only shows the department, since type is already in the meta row. * Increased card/row padding so content sits further from the (2rem) rounded corners. #### 2.7.1 * Admin job form: the Responsibilities/Requirements/Benefits fields were relabeled to match what’s actually shown on the job page (“Key Responsibilities”, “Preferred Qualifications”), and each now has a persistent help note plus realistic example placeholders explaining that one line = one bullet point, instead of only a placeholder hint that disappears once you start typing. #### 2.7.0 * Added an Education field to the Job Details admin form, shown as its own section on the overview page. * Overview page sections reordered: Key Responsibilities, Preferred Qualifications, Benefits, Required Skills, Education, then the application deadline. * Fixed the “Copy link” share button looking different from the other share icons— it’s a `