Job list website: Create a simple and effective job list with free plugins on WordPress

Have you ever dreamed of creating your own job postings website? Perhaps you’d like one to help all your fellow colleagues in you industry? Perhaps you’re looking for a job yourself and want to start networking with people who’re doing the recruiting? Either way, creating a job postings website is quite easy and doesn’t take…


Have you ever dreamed of creating your own job list website? Perhaps you’d like one to help all your fellow colleagues in your industry? Perhaps you’re looking for a job yourself and want to start networking with people who’re doing the recruiting? Either way, creating a job list is quite easy and doesn’t take that much work.

Plugins used for the job list

  • Pods plugin: To take care of the Custom post type, taxonomies, fields, and relationships
  • Forminator: Excellent form plugin with more than enough free options to make this project work
  • PublishPress Future: A nice and simple plugin that let you set rules for taking down job posts after the hiring process is over

You mentioned it’s free?

Yes! You do need a few things that actually cost money, though. A domain name for your website and a place to store it, like webhotell, your own server, etc. Other than that, this setup will be completely free, unless you actively choose to upgrade some of the plugins for more features. It’s not necessary to begin with, though!

What I want in my job list website

To set the frame for the project, I looked at how much time I could reasonably put into the website, both starting out and going forward. The criteria were as follow:

  • WordPress based: You can build everything on WordPress, might as well use it for job listings as well!
  • Pods plugin: To set up all the necessary fields for the Custom post type, related taxonomies, etc.
    (I simply love this plugin! I have nothing to do with the dev or the group and have no monetary interests in the plugin, other than using it for several different non-profit websites. Bets of all, it’s completely free so please, if you have the means, consider donating to the team to ensure its future in the WordPress universe.)
  • Easy posting: Posting jobs will be the most important part of the website going forward. Most of the posting will be done by myself, at least stating out. The form must be incredibly easy to manage, front end, and have all the necessary options available. It must also reliably push the form field entries into a custom post for easy back end maintenance.
  • A good looking, easily navigable front end: The front end is probably the most important part. It should contain as little clutter as possible while still letting the visitor know exactly what the job is before clicking on it.
  • E-mail notifications to the hiring company: While this is not really a requirement, it is a great feature that does several things: It lets the hiring company know their job post is displayed on a niche website they might not even know exist. It also starts a conversation with the hiring company which could be incredibly useful in the long run. It’s a sign of goodwill, letting the company remove the post if they don’t want it showing on the website, but more probably, create a relationship with another participant in your niche industry.

What I want my job listings website to accomplish

Sometimes, it’s not the immediate monetary effects that are the most valuable.

I won’t charge any company to list their jobs on my website, at least in the beginning. Instead, I’m hoping for the website to gain more traffic and, from there, there are several ways to monetize the content (which I won’t go into detail about here). The niche I’ve chosen is quite small and goes quite unnoticed by the rest of the industry and world. There are almost no other websites and resources that are independent from other companies and groups with specific interests, which creates a great opportunity to become a neutral middle-ground.

Being able to become such a middle-ground for a broader conversation in a small industry in which people are familiar with each other could become a hugely important key to hold!

Setting up the website

I will assume you have the necessary pre-requirements, like a domain, webhotell, WordPress-installation, and are familiar with the installation of plugins. Otherwise, ask your nearest AI companion or Google about the specifics of that.

Pods plugin: The Fields

Setting up the fields in Pods is probably the most important step, so choose your fields wisely! Here are the fields I’ve used for my form and what type of field I’ve used. The * indicate a required field.:

  • *Hiring company [Plain text]: Who are doing the hiring?
  • LinkedIn [Website]: LinkedIn of the hiring company
  • *Location [Plain text]: City, State, WFH
  • *Type of employment [Plain text]: Fullt-time, Part-time, Project based
  • *”Apply-before” date [Date]: Last date to send the application
  • Benefits [Plain paragraph text]: What benefits will the applicant get from working for the company?
  • About us [Plain paragraph text]: About the hiring company
  • Job description [Plain paragraph text]: What does the work entail?
  • Competens/Requirements [Plain paragraph text]: What are the company looking for in an applicant?
  • Salary [Plain text]: Fixed, can be discussed, specific number
  • *Contact Person [Plain text]: Whom can the applicant contact to find out more about the job?
  • E-mail adress [E-mail]: Contact person’s e-mail
  • Phone [Phone]: Contact person’s phone
  • *Apply here [Website]: Link to the application website/form
  • *Website [Website]: Link to the company’s website
  • Message [Plain paragraph text]: A final field where the hiring company can give you additional information, or ask questions about the process, etc. Won’t show up on the front end.

Some of the fields above will be voluntary in the final form while some will be mandatory. You’ll have to consider what you’d like to display on your website. The more mandatory fields you have, the more intimidating the form will be, but the less you have, the less information the applicant will be able to see.

Advanced Options

In the “Supports” section I’ve gone with the following:

  • Title: Instead of using a custom Pods field for the title, I’ve found it easier to just use the built-in WP title for this purpose.
  • Author: In the future, I might create an option for the companies to create their own account for publishing, editing and removing ads. For now, I prefer to keep it simple with a field only.
  • Excerpt: This will act as the short description of the job.
  • Quick edit: To be able to edit quickly.

Forminator: Creating the form and connecting it to Pods plugin fields

You’ll need a plugin to display a nice-looking form on the front end that hiring companies can use to easily enter the necessary information for the listing and then transfer that information to your custom post type in the correct fields. This can be achieved quite easily with Forminator!

  1. Create a new form:It doesn’t matter what kind you start off with as you’ll change most fields.
  2. Add the fields: Add all the fields that you’d like to display for you visitors and enter the correct information, labels, and tags
  3. Add the “Post Data” field: This is where the magic happens and your other fields are sent to a new job post in the database!
  4. Preview and Update: Make sure it looks the way you want it to look and save the form.
  5. Add the form to a private page: While editing and testing, make sure the page the form is on is not public, yet.
  6. Set up e-mail notifications: Make sure the e-mail notifications are sent only to you, for now. Test with different addresses and options
  7. Test, test, test: Test all the features to get them just like you want them and make sure they work properly before turning it public.
Job lists have quite a few fields, but a lot of them optional

Other than the previous mentioned fields, you’ll notice I have a few more. Those fields are conditional fields that display, should the visitor have a different contact person for the job applicants than for my team. We do want a means to get in contact with people at the company and it’s not always the same person who take on the applicants to the job so we leave separate fields for that purpose. Our contact will never display on the front end job post, however.

The “Post Data” field

The most important part of the form is to populate the form with the correct fields from your new custom post type in Pods.

  1. To do that, click the “Post Data” field and head over to “Settings”. You’ll see an option to choose what Post type the form should be assigned to: go for your newly created job listings post type, in my case, simply “jobb”.
  2. Under “Labels”, I’ve gone with “Title” and “Excerpt”, since those are the two original WP fields I’m going to be using for this form. Also enable “Custom Fields”

Custom Fields

It might look intimidating, but it’s rather straight forward. Just make sure to check your spelling! In the first box (in my case “foretag”), put the slug (in this case “{text-3}” for the field in your custom post type (from Pods).

Pods plugin view for your created fields
The “Name” is the text you enter in the first box in your newly created Forminator form.

Then, press the + sign and choose what field from the form you want to be converted into the custom post type field you just put in the first box!

Rinse and repeat until all fields are connected!

Style the job list

Setting up the styling of the job list is quite straight forward. It does require some knowledge of html and css, and possibly even javascript and php, depending on how advanced you’d like to make your website. For simple specific solutions, ask your nearest AI about code examples. It will require som trail and error testing to get them to work in the way that you want.

To display the jobs ads in a query, just create a new page and add a query loop for your new custom post type and go from there!


More articles about Custom Post Types here:

Custom Post Type for Book Reviews

Pods Plugin: Creating new Pods and Displaying Them on Your Site


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Pressing Pause on Streaming: Is Physical Media Making a Comeback?

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Downsides of streaming services

What a lot of people, myself included, have experienced with streaming services is the sudden disappearance of the show I’m currently watching or a movie I plan to watch. This has been a recurring theme in our house where we’re about to put on the Friday movie with the kids and it’s just gone. Of course, there are always others, but if you’ve hyped up 3 kids for a movie, there’s going to be some disappointment.

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“If you hold it in your hand, it’s yours”

Personally, I believe a lot of people simply have started getting tired of the endless subscriptions we pay for different services. I myself have been going over my old CD-collection and am looking to possibly purchase a new stereo to rid myself of Spotify. It’s a good service, but I’m generally listening to the same songs and artists over and over, paying the approximate price for an album every month.

If I purchase 12 albums per year, I have exactly 12 albums after one year that I never have to pay for again. I can download the songs to my phone and listen to when I’m not home, at the same time my wife or kids listen to the same album at home.

Buy it once, enjoy it forever.

Will streaming become a thing of the past?

It’s quite unlikely that streaming will go away anytime soon. It’s simply too convenient and comfortable to put on and just leave in the background. It’s also a great way to find common ground, if you take date home for an evening on the couch. Instead of browsing through your highly specific movie list of documentaries of the Roman Empire, she might want something more easily digestible.

As the streaming industry will inevitably become more normalised in the coming years, it will settle for a somewhat smaller audience than currently. Currently, there are too many streaming services that produce too much bad quality stuff and doesn’t have enough of the good stuff that will have to be swallowed by the others, one way or another.

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The Planetary Collision Theory

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Trust in the machines

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The more you confide in them, the more they learn about you, and the more accurate they can be in predicting what next words you’ll want to hear in this very moment, as is illustrated by the first sentence of the above quote.

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The Role of Testosterone in Women

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Sexual Mimicry and Reduced Testosterone

So, what happens when you instead reduce a man’s testosterone levels?

It seems like pretty much the opposite of an increase in testosterone: rincreased “prosocial behavior” (i.e. less honesty = more lying). Men who lower their testosterone levels also are more prosocial and generally care more about what the social situation thinks of them.

Sexual Mimicry is an extreme when the lowering of testosterone in a man pivots his behaviour into a more female-like behaviour.

Current Events and Testosterone

Unfortunately we’ve had a lot of examples of young men who, voluntarily, have been reducing their testosterone levels in some kind of “transfer”. In addition, we’ve seen a steady decrease in testosterone on a societal- or global scale. The end result of this reduction will be felt as men world-wide are less and less staying true to themselves and, instead, conform to social pressure.

Currently, we’re seeing testosterone levels dropping all over the world, perhaps most significantly in the West, affecting sperm count- and quality. This is a serious problem that needs to be addressed, as more and more young men exhibits lower testosterone levels, we have fewer men who’re able to stand up and say no to crazy. Whatever one might think of the men who stand up, they’re incredibly important to the well-being of a society.


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Weapons of mass casualties

Perhaps one of the most devastating new technologies in modern history arrived at the battlefields in the first world war – the machine gun. Tales of trench warfare are still being told with trembling voices about the soldiers who were told to simply run toward the enemy, being mowed down by machine gun fire the second they appeared above the trench. We’ve come a long way from trench warfare, while still, perhaps, we haven’t.

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AI drones in the modern army

What place AI and drones will take in the modern army is anyone’s guess currently. The safest bet is probably: everyone’s. They are increasingly taking the place of their human counterparts on the front lines, but also in the skies, as observation and reconnaissance platforms. The famous dog-like AI drone have gotten a flame-thrower attachment on its back which can easily be switched for a machine gun, or perhaps an autonomous drone launcher to increase range for the air-borne drones.

Implications for civilians

Most of the technological advances made the last 100 years or so, have been due to military application, at first. Once the technology is out there, civilians find alternative uses for it. So, while there are significant improvements to be made from all this AI warring, there are also significant downsides, should this fall into the wrong hands.

While I believe that not all people are really suitable to wield the new and powerful potential weapons masquerading as robo-dogs and aerial wedding photographers, there’s a great risk allowing only our own state and police to use it. Already, police are using drones to surveil large gatherings of people and radio-controlled robots to disarm potential bombs, etc. These are great uses for the police since it allows for them to conserve and protect their employees.

Should our state police force get their hands on tools that can shut down violence altogether my opinion is that they wouldn’t hesitate to use it. The normal police officer on the street would quickly find himself without employment and the AI police drones would patrol the streets in his place, protecting and serving their masters – the weak-willed bureaucrat (and more probable, his masters).


This is an incredibly interesting field to follow, however terrifying at times. Can we trust a certain small number of individuals, claiming to have our best interest at heart, with this technology? Or is this technology better off in the hands of the many? What do you think?

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