I cannot really advise on how you’d set that up – it would really be down to whether you need the fields on the front or backend, and whether or not those plugins support updating existing posts. It’s not something I have attempted personally.
Thanks for you reply. Is there any way to split the company/job fields on the job-submit page into multiple pages, or maybe use accordions on that page? I’m just looking for a way to break up a really long page of custom fields a user has to fill in.
It is possible to customise the steps, but this is quite advanced https://github.com/mikejolley/WP-Job-Manager/blob/master/includes/forms/class-wp-job-manager-form-submit-job.php#L20 I use this filter for adding payment steps for example.
Yeah, seems a little complicated, but seems like a great feature to add to my submit-job page one day. Last question related to this (hopefully): with keeping all the fields on a single page on the job-submit form, is there a way to display some of the fields in a table, so the user can fill out part of the form similar to filling out a spreadsheet?
You could edit the template files to do this if you wanted: https://wpjobmanager.com/document/template-overrides/
Or just tweak the CSS styling.
Thanks again. Can you provide any tips on how I would go about styling this via CSS, just to get me started?
Also, are you available for paid customization requests, or is there a different developer you would recommend for customizations?
Hmm without knowing what you want to change, not really. I was assuming you’d change the padding/margins/borders to make it more tabular.
I don’t do freelance, but you could try jobs.wordpress.net
For the table view, I was thinking of displaying all the “job fields” in a table, and the company fields displayed in a list (already your default display).
i.e. the table displaying the custom fields on the front end would look something like:
___________________________________________________
| Job fields |
___________________________________________________
|job title | job_location | job_category | job_etc |
____________________________________________________
Wouldn’t that make the columns really really narrow and hard to use?
I think it would look fine on a desktop computer having 4-5 fields on a single line in the submit-jobs form, but on mobile it would just have to display as a long list. Do you have a different suggestion than organizing the job fields in a table? I’m totally open to ideas 🙂
Not really 🙂 I prefer the list for usability. But yeah, start in the file: https://github.com/mikejolley/WP-Job-Manager/blob/master/templates/job-submit.php#L22 if you want to use a real table.
Sounds good, I’ll mess around with that file. Is there any way to have these changes in my child theme, so I don’t have to edit this file each time you update your plugin?
Thanks Mike. Your support is amazing 🙂
