About this plugin
Here’s the deal. YubHub publishes free XML job feeds, real postings that we keep current on our side (new ones in, closed ones out), and this plugin pulls them into your WordPress site and shows them properly: a jobs archive, a page per job, search, filters, the lot. You don’t pay anything.
The feeds are free, with a small YubHub credit built into the feed itself, and that credit is the whole arrangement. If you’d rather run the feeds without it, that’s a paid option.
I built it because I wanted a quick way to put current jobs on a site without running a scraper or paying for a job board API. The feeds do the hard part (finding the jobs, tidying them up, dropping the ones that have closed). The plugin just imports them every hour and gets out of the way.
It works well for a careers section, a niche job board, a community or membership site, anywhere you’d like a set of live roles without doing the legwork yourself.
What you get:
- Automatic feed import, hourly through WP-Cron, plus a manual import button for when you can’t wait
- Search by keyword, job type and location
- Three colour themes: Default Blue, Midnight Indigo and Forest Green
- A [yubhub_jobs] shortcode so you can drop the listings into any page or post
- Sponsored banner slots if you want to make a bit of money from the page
- Google Indexing API support (optional) so Google hears about new jobs quickly
- Templates you can override from your theme
- Responsive layout, built mobile first
- Schema.org JobPosting structured data on every job
On the terms. No licence key, no trial period, no paid version of the plugin. The feeds are free too, with a YubHub credit built into the feed.
If you want them without the credit, that’s a paid option. co/free-job-feeds.
I can’t have tested it against every theme out there, so if your layout does something odd, the templates are overridable and you can shape them to fit (more on that below).
External Services
This plugin connects to the following third-party services:
YubHub Feed Service
This plugin fetches job listing data from XML feeds hosted on YubHub. Feed URLs are configured by the site administrator. The plugin sends an HTTP request to each configured feed URL on an hourly schedule (via WP-Cron) and when manually triggered by an admin.
- What data is sent: An HTTP GET request to the feed URL configured by the administrator. No user data is transmitted.
- When: Hourly via WP-Cron, or on demand via the admin settings page.
- YubHub Terms of Service
- YubHub Privacy Policy
Google Indexing API (optional)
If enabled, this plugin uses the Google Indexing API to notify Google when new job pages are published or removed. This feature requires the site administrator to upload a Google Cloud service account JSON key.
- What data is sent: The public URL of each published job post, along with an update type (URL_UPDATED or URL_DELETED).
- When: After a feed import completes, or when the administrator processes the indexing queue.
- Authentication: OAuth 2.0 JWT tokens are exchanged with Google’s token endpoint (oauth2.googleapis.com).
- Google APIs Terms of Service
- Google Privacy Policy