Jobs: Email daily digests of new jobs through Jetpack Subscriptions by obenland · Pull Request #1075 · WordPress/wordpress.org

obenland · 2026-10-19T18:55:19Z

Fixes https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/89

Adds daily email alerts for new jobs, sent through Jetpack Subscriptions.

How it works

Jetpack only emails regular posts, so a daily cron publishes one digest post listing the new jobs, grouped by category.
The digest is filed under an "All Jobs" newsletter category plus the category of every job it lists. All-jobs subscribers get it every day; category subscribers get it on days their category has new jobs. With one post a day, nobody gets a job twice.
The home page form subscribes to all jobs; the sidebar form on a job category page subscribes to that category.
Digest posts stay out of listings, feeds and sitemaps, and redirect to the job listings.

Front page: which background? 🗳️

The email form sits at the bottom of the home page, below "People Open to Work". Please reply with A, B or C.

A: Blue	B: Green	C: White

Not used anywhere else on the site.	The theme's "Jobs accent" color, as used in the hero highlight.	Plain, like the job listings section.

Category page sidebar

Testing

npm run jobs:env start in environments/. The env now includes Jetpack in offline mode and sample "People Open to Work" candidates. Run npm run jobs:env run cli -- wp cron event run jobswp_publish_digests to publish a digest from the sample jobs. Subscribing itself needs WordPress.com.

Before deploy

Turn on Jetpack's Subscriptions module on jobs.wordpress.net.
On the sandbox, confirm that a category subscriber only gets the digest on days that category has new jobs.

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New Features
- Added daily job digest emails, organized by job category, with subscription forms on the homepage and job listings.
- Added Job Alerts categories for digest subscriptions. Digest posts link to relevant job categories and stay out of standard listings and sitemaps.
- Added redirects from digest archives to job listings.
Tests
- Added coverage for digest publishing, category assignment, and safe display of job titles.

Jetpack only emails posts of the `post` type, so a daily cron gathers the jobs published since the last run into digest posts: one listing all new jobs, grouped by job category and filed under a Job Alerts category, and one per job category, filed under a child category that mirrors it. The digest categories are offered as Jetpack newsletter categories, which are switched on the first time, so subscribers get either the daily email of all new jobs or the categories they picked, never both. The home page form subscribes to all jobs and a job category page's form to that category. Should a site switch newsletter categories off, only the digest of all jobs is published. Jobs are flagged for the digest when they get published, since moderation can publish them days after submission. Digest posts are kept out of listings, feeds and the sitemap, and redirect to the job listings they summarize. Fixes WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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📝 Walkthrough

The JobsWP plugin adds scheduled job digests, digest categories, visibility filters, and Jetpack subscription forms. The theme displays subscription forms on the homepage and in the sidebar. The jobs environment configures Jetpack subscriptions and adds a mock for the open-to-work API.

Changes: Job Alerts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Digest setup and category tracking `.../class-jobs-dot-wp-digest.php`, `.../jobswp.php`	The plugin registers digest hooks, schedules daily publication, creates Job Alerts and mirrored job categories, and loads the digest class.
Digest publication `.../class-jobs-dot-wp-digest.php`, `.../tests/Digest_Test.php`	The publisher locks against overlapping runs, queries published jobs within a saved run window, groups jobs by category, and publishes a digest post. Tests cover repeated publication, category assignment, and shortcode-like job content.
Digest query and archive handling `.../class-jobs-dot-wp-digest.php`	The plugin excludes digest posts from applicable front-end queries and posts sitemaps, and excludes digest categories from category sitemaps. Digest archives redirect to the site root or a linked job-category archive.
Subscription form integration `.../class-jobs-dot-wp-digest.php`, `.../content-home.php`, `.../sidebar.php`, `.../style.css`, `environments/jobs/.wp-env.json`, `environments/mocks/jetpack-offline-subscriptions.php`	The plugin renders a Jetpack subscription form when the subscriptions block is registered. The homepage and sidebar display the form conditionally, and the sidebar can pass the queried job category. The jobs environment configures Jetpack and its offline-subscriptions mock.

Open-to-work environment mock

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Candidate API response mock `environments/mocks/jobs-open-to-work.php`, `environments/jobs/.wp-env.json`	The mock returns paginated sample candidates for matching open-to-work API requests. The jobs environment maps the mock.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Cron as WordPress cron
  participant Digest as Jobs_Dot_WP_Digest
  participant Posts as WordPress posts and terms
  Cron->>Digest: Run scheduled digest publication
  Digest->>Posts: Query published jobs in the run window
  Posts-->>Digest: Return matching jobs
  Digest->>Posts: Insert digest post with category terms

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- Around line 220-243: Update the digest publication flow around
`self::insert_digest` so Jetpack receives only the all-jobs digest; route
category alerts through a separate channel that does not publish Jetpack posts.
Do not treat changes to `set_up_categories()` or mirror-category creation alone
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- Line 24: Update the sidebar description near the get_subscribe_form() output
so category-specific copy is shown only when the form selects the current job
category; otherwise show the general description. Reuse the same
newsletter-category availability and selection condition as
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Publishing a draft job sets its post date to the time it went live, so the digest can take the jobs published since the last run, tracked in one option, rather than flagging each job on publication. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Jetpack only loads `Jetpack_Newsletter_Category_Helper` in its settings endpoints, so on front-end requests, in cron and when a job category is created the digest categories were never offered as newsletter categories, nor were newsletter categories switched on. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The email field was squeezed beside the button in the narrow sidebar, so the sidebar form puts the button on its own line. The digest class is now required ahead of the jobswp-* files, keeping the list in order. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Installs Jetpack from its plugin zip and runs it in offline mode. Offline mode skips modules that need a WordPress.com connection, so a mock mu-plugin lets the Subscriptions module (and the Blocks module its form needs) load anyway. The forms render and the digests publish; subscribing still needs WordPress.com. Also points the dev login mock at its current path. Docker mounted the missing file as an empty directory, and the resulting warnings on every request broke redirects. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Jetpack's default form is sized for full-width placements; in the sidebar the button now matches `.btn-sm`, and the description leaves the same gap above the email field as Jetpack leaves below it. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Line 254: Track the results of category-post inserts in the digest generation
flow and advance LAST_RUN_OPTION only when all required category inserts
succeed; on failure, leave the checkpoint unchanged so the window can be
retried. Make the retry path idempotent so already-created all-jobs and category
posts are not duplicated.
- Line 172: Update the digest query’s after boundary based on LAST_RUN_OPTION to
include jobs published in the checkpoint second, and use a cursor or
overlap-and-deduplicate strategy to prevent sending jobs twice.
- Line 163: In the digest publishing flow that reads LAST_RUN_OPTION, prevent
overlapping invocations from publishing the same window by acquiring an atomic
lock before reading the window and inserting posts, and release it when the run
finishes. Alternatively, enforce a unique digest identity before insertion so
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The digest read the raw `jobtype` meta, so emails listed jobs as "ft", "pt" or "ppt". Use `jobswp_get_job_meta()`, which the job listings already use to map them to "Full Time", "Part Time" and "Project". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The candidate sections come from the profiles.wordpress.org API, which a local environment can't always reach. A mock mu-plugin answers that request with sample candidates, paginated like the real endpoint, so the home page and sidebar show the sections as they appear on the live site. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The form closes out the page, after the listings and candidates it offers alerts for. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Jetpack emails every post to subscribers of "All content", and adds existing subscribers to newly created newsletter categories. Separate all-jobs and per-category posts would therefore email jobs twice. The digest is now a single post, filed under Job Alerts and under the mirror of each job category it lists, so category subscribers get it on days their category has new jobs and nobody gets a job twice. This also removes the case where a failed category post was never retried. - Lock the run with core's upgrader lock, so overlapping runs can't read and email the same window twice. - End the window a minute before the run, so a job saved by a publish request still in flight lands in the next window instead of being skipped. - Only promise category emails in the sidebar when newsletter categories are on, since the form only preselects the category then. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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obenland · 2026-10-19T19:50:23Z

@coffee2code @annezazu Could I ask for your review for this?

It uses the workaround of digest posts to allow email subscriptions through Jetpack. There are a few options in the PR description for how the form could be integrated.

Is this functionality something you're interested in?
Do you think the setup with daily digest posts is an acceptable approach to make this work?

Once digests exist, the Job Alerts category and its job category mirrors are no longer empty, so core listed them in the categories sitemap even though every one of them redirects. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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LGTM. I added a few minor suggestions/considerations.

As for the 3 design options, I'd vote B then C.

coffee2code · 2026-10-23T04:29:33Z

+		$groups = array();
+		foreach ( $jobs as $job ) {
+			$terms = get_the_terms( $job, 'job_category' );
+			$key   = $terms && ! is_wp_error( $terms ) ? $terms[0]->term_id : 0;


Might be worth preceding this line with a comment noting the (safe) assumption that jobs only have one category (in the event that ever changes):

// Assume jobs are expected to have only one category assigned.

coffee2code · 2026-10-23T04:36:38Z

+		<?php if ( $subscribe_form ) : ?>
+			<aside class="widget widget-job-alerts">
+				<h3 class="widget-title"><?php esc_html_e( 'Job Alerts', 'jobswp' ); ?></h3>
+				<p class="widget-job-alerts__description"><?php echo esc_html( is_tax( 'job_category' ) && Jobs_Dot_WP_Digest::has_newsletter_categories() ? __( 'Get a daily email when new jobs are posted in this category.', 'jobswp' ) : __( 'Get a daily email with new jobs.', 'jobswp' ) ); ?></p>


Since we're not promising that the emails include just the subscribed-to category, maybe the in-category sidebar prompt can be reworded to curb some confusion:

__( 'Get the daily email when new jobs are posted in this category.', 'jobswp' )

"Get the daily jobs digest when..." would probably be clearer, but not if this is the only place. "digest" is used.

coffee2code · 2026-10-23T04:39:59Z

+			}
+		}
+		$content .= sprintf( '<p><a href="%1$s">%2$s</a></p>', esc_url( home_url( '/' ) ), esc_html__( 'See all open jobs', 'jobswp' ) );
+


Consider a disclaimer here at the email that clarifies that the included jobs were available at the time of the creation of the email, but any one of them may have since been closed.

$content .= '<p>' . esc_html__( 'Job listings were active when this email was generated. Some may have since been filled, closed, or removed.', 'jobswp' ) . '</p>';

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The form closes out the page, after the listings and candidates it offers alerts for. See WordPress#89. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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