How to make job types friendly?

Hi there, @triptikon,

I don’t think there is a direct way to “beautify” these URLs, however, you can take a look at this documentation explaining how to change the job slug/permalink:

https://wpjobmanager.com/document/tutorial-changing-the-job-slugpermalink/

You may also want to take a look at the template overrides page too, just in case you find something useful:

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

Hope that answers your question!

@erania-pinnera …I don’t think I understood you. Since I still need to change links like

https://sample.com/?taxonomy=job_listing_category&term=vakansii
to
https://sample.com/job-listing-category/vakansii

How to edit them? In the WordPress permalink settings everything is set, except the default and those which does not apply to the plugin. There doesn’t seem to be a solution in the manual.

Hi @triptikon,

I tried to replicate this at my end, and when I entered the slug you suggested it automatically redirects to a URL similar to the one you wanted to get.

In detail, if I type on my test site https://steftest.mystagingwebsite.com/?taxonomy=job_listing_category&term=interstellar, it redirects me to https://steftest.mystagingwebsite.com/job-category/interstellar/.

Is it what you wanted to get, right? If that’s so, could you please check the permalinks for WP Job Manager, to see if they look like mine?

https://cloudup.com/c4CvMaYf5mE+

Direct link here

Lastly, can you tell me how you land on https://sample.com/?taxonomy=job_listing_category&term=vakansii? I’d like to figure out if something in the flow leads you to that URL that we can check.

Let me know if that makes sense, and what you find out.

@erania-pinnera I just chose one of the job categories to add a menu item. And I have the necessary items in the permalink settings, but the urls still turn out to be crooked

• This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Hey @triptikon,

I still can’t replicate this at my end, and I suspect that could be something conflicting with your theme.

Ideally, the taxonomy=job_listing_category&term=XYZ code should automatically turn into the /job-category/XYZ/ automatically, as it is up to the theme to create taxonomy archive templates for this; it’s possible that your theme can’t do so that.

Can you try to temporarily switch your theme to Twenty Twenty and see if the problem persists?

You can also try using the [jobs categories=nameofjobcategory] shortcode on the page you created for it.

Let me know how you get on!

@erania-pinnera but if I use the [jobs categories=nameofjobcategory] shortcode, than I get two identical pages

Hi @triptikon,

Were you able to try using the Twenty Twenty theme to see if you have the same issue with the URLs after that?

@michaelnutt no, I did not switch to another theme, so as not to knock down the settings. But the developers of the active theme told me that links to individual categories of vacancies could be inserted normally at all. In order for the categories to have links, you need to change the WP Job Manager plugin code. I don’t know if this is true. I’m already confused to be honest

if it’s really so, then tell me please the shortcode of the exact job category and how to hide these bad links (taxonomy=job_listing_category&term=XYZ) from the search engines?

Hi there,

We did some more testing on this and could not replicate the issue with either the Twenty Twenty themes or Storefront because it appears both themes do not have category pages. Then we thought to test with the Jobify theme because Jobify has two templates (taxonomy-job_listing_category.php & taxonomy-resume_category.php) which are likely the A=archive templates for Job and Resume category pages.

With Jobify active, we were able to get the https://example.com/job-category/category-one URL. So as a summary, in order to create Listing Category pages, you will need to create Job category Archive templates on your website.

For our reference: p1653923119885589-slack-C6GGX896G

@bizanimesh wouldn’t it be easier to use the shortcode of the exact job category and hide these bad links (taxonomy=job_listing_category&term=XYZ) from the search engines?

At this point, you will need to make the change as explained above.

Since this is an issue with the Jobify theme, you might try reaching out to the theme developers to see if they have an alternative way of achieving this. You can contact them here:

https://themeforest.net/item/jobify-wordpress-job-board-theme/5247604/support

@lastsplash I don’t use the Jobify theme! Can you answer the question?

@triptikon My apologies, I misunderstood the notes on this issue and thought that you had Jobify installed rather than realizing that my colleagues tested on Jobify as a means of trying to sort this out. Sorry for the confusion that this caused.

We are continuing to look into this issue.

@lastsplash well, what is the solution?