Day-1 quickstart

You can go from a fresh install to your first job and your first application in five tasks.

1. Finish the setup wizard

If you skipped the wizard, go to Career Board > Settings and click Re-run Setup Wizard at the bottom of the page. The wizard:

• Creates the pages your board needs: Find Jobs, Post a Job, Employer Registration, Employer Dashboard, Candidate Dashboard and Find Companies. A page you already have is kept.
• Can install sample categories, job types, companies and jobs, so you can see the board with content.

If you already ran it, check Career Board > Settings > Pages to confirm each page is assigned.

2. Add menu items

Open Appearance > Menus and add links to the pages you want visitors to reach:

• Jobs: /find-jobs/
• Employers: /post-a-job/ or /employer-dashboard/
• Candidates: /candidate-dashboard/
• Companies: /find-companies/

The paths above are the default page slugs. Use the real page links if you changed them.

3. Post your first job

1. Go to /post-a-job/.
2. Fill in the form: title, company, description, salary, location and category.
3. Submit. If Auto-Publish Jobs is off, the job waits under Career Board > Jobs as Pending Review. Approve it.
4. Open /find-jobs/. Your job appears in the listing.
5. Click into it to see the page candidates see.

4. Apply to it as a test candidate

1. Log out, or open a private window.
2. Register a test account at /employer-registration/ and choose Find a Job. You can also apply as a guest unless Require login to apply is on.
3. Apply to the job you posted.
4. Log back in as admin and open Career Board > Applications. Your test application is listed.
5. Open it to see what employers see when they review applicants.

5. Check moderation, credits and emails

• Moderation: in Career Board > Settings > Jobs, the Auto-Publish Jobs toggle. Leave it off to approve each job yourself, or turn it on to publish jobs straight away.
• Credits (Pro): Career Board > Settings > Credits. Use it to charge employers for job posts.
• Emails: Career Board > Settings > Emails. Candidates get an application confirmation email and employers get a new application email.

Next steps

If you are running…	Read next
A public job board	Post a job
A paid job board	Credit system
An internal hiring board	Settings
Classic-editor pages	Page builder embeds

Troubleshooting

• Visitors cannot apply without an account: check Require login to apply under Career Board > Settings > Sign-ups. When it is on, only signed-in members can apply. If Require Candidate Role is also on, only users with the Candidate role can apply.
• An employer has no Post a Job link: the account needs the wcb_post_jobs capability. Administrators and the Employer role have it.
• Emails do not arrive: Career Board sends email through wp_mail, like other plugins. Set up an SMTP plugin with a real sending domain.