About this plugin
Ninja Job Board turns your WordPress site into a careers page. Post a job, give it an application form, and review every applicant in one place. You do not need a paid job portal, and applications do not get lost in your inbox.
It is made for small and medium teams that hire a few times a year and want a simple, self-hosted way to do it.
How it works
- Create a job. Write the description in the block editor and add the job type, location, vacancies and experience.
- Build the application form with the drag and drop form builder.
- Publish. The job page shows the job details and the application form automatically.
- Review applications. Filter them by status, open each applicant’s CV, add notes, and move them through your hiring steps.
- Reply to applicants one by one, or send one email to all applicants with a given status.
Jobs and the careers page
- Each job is a WordPress post with its own page, category and details.
- Job List block and [wp_job_list] shortcode: show your open jobs on any page, with an optional category filter.
- Job Application Form block and [wp_job_form id="123"] shortcode: show a job’s application form anywhere.
- Job Details block: show a job’s type, location, vacancies, experience and posting date.
- Job categories, and an option to hide jobs that are no longer open.
Application form builder
Build each job’s form by drag and drop. Available fields:
- Applicant name and applicant email
- CV upload and file upload
- Single line text, paragraph text and number
- Dropdown, radio buttons and checkboxes
- Date
- Hidden field
- HTML content
- Form steps, to split a long form into pages
Each form has its own settings:
- Confirmation: show a message, or send the applicant to a page or URL.
- Scheduling: open and close applications on set dates.
- Restrictions: require login, or limit the number of applications.
- Design: label placement, required marker and submit button position.
Applicant tracking
- All applications for a job in one table, with tabs that count each status.
- Two statuses per application: the application status (Applied, Processing, Pending, Completed) and a private internal status for your team (New, Audited, Interviewed, Shortlisted, Hired and more).
- An application page with the answers, the CV and other files, notes, and an activity timeline.
- See the other applications from the same applicant.
- Search applications, print an application, and export applications to CSV.
- Email notifications when someone applies: to the applicant, to your HR team, or both. Use placeholders such as the applicant’s name and the job title.
- Email broadcast: send one email to all applicants of a job, filtered by application status and internal status.
Security and privacy
- Uploaded CVs are private. Only users who can view the application can download them. Direct links to the upload folder are blocked (see the FAQ for Nginx).
- Spam protection: a hidden honeypot field on every form, and optional Cloudflare Turnstile.
- WordPress privacy tools: export or erase an applicant’s data from Tools > Export Personal Data and Tools > Erase Personal Data.
- Option to stop storing applicants’ IP addresses.
- Option to delete all plugin data when you delete the plugin.
Fast and lightweight
The form’s CSS and JavaScript load only on pages that show a form or a job list. The admin is a modern app built with Vue 3, and it uses the WordPress REST API.
Source code
The files in assets/admin, assets/blocks, assets/css and assets/js are compiled. Their source (the Vue admin app, the blocks and the SCSS) is on GitHub. 0.
To build: npm install, then npm run build. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome.
Other plugins by WPManageNinja
- Fluent Forms: drag and drop form builder
- FluentCRM: email marketing and CRM for WordPress
- Fluent Support: helpdesk and customer support
- Ninja Tables: data tables for WordPress
External services
This plugin can connect to Cloudflare Turnstile, a security check that blocks spam on the public application form. It is off by default and only works after you turn it on and add your keys in Job Board > Settings > General.
com, and the visitor’s browser sends Cloudflare the data it needs to tell people from bots. com/turnstile/v0/siteverify to check the token.
Cloudflare Turnstile: Terms of Use, Privacy Policy.