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Career functionality v2 scope #672
Description
Building off of the original request to add career functionality, this issue seeks to capture some near time items for a v2 to keep momentum and focus. At a high level, the aim is build out career functionality (find jobs, post jobs, share career moments) within the WordPress.org network in line with this original source of feedback from Matt:
even better, what would it look like if we actually made our profiles as useful and iconic as Githubs, and how can we embed jobs and job-seeking into the product of the main website rather than a side thing. x.com does a really good version of this
I'm going to use the Now/Next/Later approach since there's not a set timeline for this work nor is it tied to any release cycle. Part of what's here is pulled directly from feedback from design that's been given to me (from @marko-srb) and from this dedicated call for testing that's ongoing. I will keep this updated as the work evolves as I work with @bor0 here.
Now
Profiles:
Enhancements:
- Add dropdown for each job for type of employment: Freelance, Contract, Full-time, and Part-time (feedback source).
- Add ability to upload CV to automatically fill jobs, accomplishments, etc.
- Show "Edit and Remove" buttons consistently in the same spot for key accomplishments and editing jobs (feedback source).
Bugs:
- Fix accessibility issue with the error message (the banner background color is light red and the text color is white, image here, feedback source).
- Use higher contrast for submit buttons to ensure it's seen as active rather than a disabled option (feedback source, feedback source). Enhancement: Make the buttons more visible #660
- For key accomplishments and job descriptions, fix issue with line breaks being replaced with “nn”, and some special characters being stripped out, for example, “)” is turned into “u00b7” (feedback source), feedback source)
Jobs.wordpress.net:
Enhancements:
- Incorporate badges into candidate section (feedback source)
- Remove "Open to work" badge as it's redundant (feedback source).
- Emphasize "how to apply" more when viewing individual jobs (feedback source)
- Center page content (like FAQ) to be more similar to either centered format pages like Philosophy or Documentation format pages.
- Add search functionality to both jobs and candidates (reuse search field approach from WordPress showcase for consistency).
- Remove WordPress logo in header.
- Swap nav font weight to a thinner variant.
- Make the green labels smaller for jobs. Right now, they are too prominent.
- Replace/reuse filtering from WordPress showcase to filter by type of job.
Next
Profiles:
TBD
Jobs.wordpress.net:
- Add ability to filter candidates by location WordPress Jobs - Add filters for candidates and differentiation tags #661 This will need design shaping first.
- Add ability to filter jobs by location (including remote) and type (part time, full time, contract, etc).
- Link the company name on single-job view.
- Budget field normalization. This would be a plugin change, likely requiring folks to select a currency OR a description of the budget field when submitting a job.
- Polish hero section on homepage. Needs design help.
Later
Profiles:
TBD
Jobs.wordpress.net:
- Enable a way to have event specific job and candidate interactions. For example, a WCEU focused job fair that can have a dedicated landing page with candidates and employeers who are IRL at an event. Here's a thread with more context.
Activity
bor0 commentedon Jun 6, 2026
Committed r24814 on buddypress that fixes these items from above (also ticked them):
Sent these props in the revision as deserved :)
Will continue tackling jobs.wordpress.net next.
marko-srb commentedon Jun 8, 2026
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I am not sure about some of these. Also, there's an effort (starting from today) to work on several pages, per feedback [here].(https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02S78ZAL/p1776105990988729)
Can we hold off on visual changes here, so we don't double work them?
bor0 commentedon Jun 8, 2026
Yup! As we talked on Slack, I had already made progress on these four items, so I'll just ship them for now and pause work on remaining.
jobs.wordpress.net: candidate badges, apply CTA, FAQ centering
jobs.wordpress.net: adapt to simplified open-to-work REST response
fcoveram commentedon Jun 11, 2026
I'd like to work on this. I see a few items that need for design proposal.
karenalma commentedon Sep 20, 2026
Hi all. I've been spending time looking at jobs.wordpress.net over the last couple of weeks, and after talking with @coffee2code, who's been working on the site and moderating incoming jobs for a couple of years now, I thought I'd drop some of my wishlist here. @annezazu , if you'd rather these go somewhere else lmk!
Making moderation easier
The employer side of the form
4. Keep the formatting people paste in. The form takes raw text and the moderators tidy it by hand.
5. Allow links and a wider range of HTML.
6. The form times out if you don't finish quickly.
7. A confirmation page after submitting, and an email when the job goes live.
8. Let employers edit a posting after submitting. Today changes go through the contact form.
9. Let employers renew a posting when the 21 days are up instead of typing it all in again.
Candidates and listings
10. A labelled group on the candidates list for WP Credits graduates, using the Graduate badge they already have. For scale: 2,249 profiles have "open to work" switched on as of today, up from 144 in the first week.
11. Bringing in jobs from other boards and employers' own sites, clearly marked and linked to the source, and removed when the source closes. This was floated in #meta in March and Scott's reply there covers what would need to be true. If we could have all WordPress jobs here, it would increase the value of the whole thing.
12. Tying posters to WordPress.org accounts.