Cannot edit or even see expiry date using Employer role

Hi @blackandbluebird,

Thanks for reaching out, you can add the Expiry Date field to the job submission and edit forms by overriding the plugin’s template. Here’s a general tutorial:

https://wpjobmanager.com/document/template-overrides/

That said, we aren’t able to actually write the code for you. You may want to look into one of these services if you need help:

https://codeable.io/?ref=l1TwZ

https://studio.envato.com/

https://jobs.wordpress.net/

We also have a plugin Application Deadline that you can use to add a closing date via a new field on the job submission form.

Best,

@blackandbluebird
by default there should be a column in the job dahsboard showing the expiration date
see this template here, lines 72-75
https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/blob/master/templates/job-dashboard.php

@gaurav984 I appreciate your response and will look at the links you sent. However, it does seem that this should be something that comes standard with the plugin. The expiry field shows up via the WordPress dashboard side of the plugin, but doesn’t via the shortcode. It seems that both should have the same basic fields, and they do, aside from this one. As @braehler said, by default there should be an expiry date field.

Please do not mark this as resolved yet, thank you.

And @braehler thank you. I will take a look there, too. I am not the greatest with PHP. If I add the lines 72-75 to the correct template in the theme editor, any idea if I also have to edit any of the other templates to make this work?

@blackandbluebird
Maybe first take a look into your theme settings, maybe something is overriding the default WPJM template of the dashboard or some CSS is removing this column.
You can just upload the whole job-dashboard.php file to your childtheme in the following direcotry and see if this has any effect.
your_child_theme/job_manager/

Also you can try switching to a default theme like 2021 and see if this issue still exists

Thank you @braehler. Time wise, I just can’t justify it when I can give the client admin access. I very much appreciate your time.

@gaurav984 I would like to suggest adding a Job Expiry line to the plugin-supplied shortcodes, as it should be available for an employer to set, and without admin access to the website.

Thanks!

Hi @blackandbluebird

Our developers are aware of this issue and there’s actually an open public GitHub repository about this. You can see that one of our developers added an enhancement request to support the ability to add a front-end form field for the job_expires field:

https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/issues/1389#issuecomment-374576708

I have added your inquiry to the above GitHub issue, so you can follow there and add your feedback, if you’d like.

If there’s no other question, I will this thread as Resolved, since your issue has been communicated to our dev team. If you still need help, definitely let us know here, and mark the thread Unresolved.

Best,
Alba