Jobs & Experts

To Get Started:

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

• On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
• For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it blog-by-blog (say if you wanted to make it a Pro Sites premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins andNetwork Activate the plugin.

To use:

Once installed and activated, you’ll see 2 new menu items in your dashboard; Jobs and Experts.

Getting Started

Let’s take a look at the Getting Started page by going directly to the Jobs menu or Jobs > Getting Started. You’ll see a welcome page with some helpful links to get started.

In mobile use, that will appear slightly condensed. Let’s go through those links!

1. In the Jobs Listings section, you’ll see the following links:

• Click the Edit link to edit the page used to display the Job Listings in the front-end.
• Click the Add link to create a new Job.

2. In the Jobs & Experts Overview section, you’ll see a link to edit the page used for the overview in the front-end.

3. In the Experts Listings section, you’ll see some links to interact with Experts:

• Click the Edit link to edit the page used to display the Experts Listings in the front-end.
• Click the Add link to create a new Expert.

Let’s take a look at the virtual page for the Job Listings.

Virtual page for Jobs Listings

Here you can change the title and content for the Jobs Listings section in the front-end.

Enter a title for the page.

Enter your content in the visual editor. You can include whatever content you want but the plugin provides shortcodes for the various sections by default.

Press the Publish button to save your changes.

Virtual page for Experts Listings

Similar to the previous section, here you change the title and content for the Experts Listings section in the front-end.

Enter a title for the page.

Enter your content in the visual editor.

Press the Publish button to save your changes.

Configuring the Settings

Let’s have a look through the settings page. Click on Jobs > Settings.

Here’s you’ll see a sub-menu where you can select to configure various aspects of the plugin, as follows:

• General Settings
• Jobs Settings
• Experts Settings

Let’s begin with the General Settings, we’ll go through the sub-sections available there.

General Options

In this sub-section, you’ll have the option to select from a number of Icon Colors. These are the icons used to display the various options in the site’s front-end. The options are as follows:

• Dark Icons, for light button backgrounds

• Bright Icons, for dark button backgrounds

• No Icons – to remove icons from buttons

Addons

You’ll also see an Addons section where you can activate and deactivate various addons included with the plugin.

The list of Addons currently includes the following:

Simply click the Activate link for each Addon you’d like to use.

Be sure to click the Save Changes button to save all the changes you make to this section.

Jobs Settings

Here, you will find settings for the Jobs section.

Let’s go through the Job options.

Experts Settings

Here, you configure the options for Experts.

Let’s check out the settings for this.

Need Help?

If you have trouble with any aspect of configuration, code or general usage, or if you have a cool feature suggestion to make, please head on over to the community forums where support staff and other helpful members are waiting to lend a hand.