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Geocoding with Google’s Maps API

In Job Listings > Settings, you’ll find a field to enter your Google Maps API Key.

When you enter your Google Maps API Key there, WP Job Manager will retrieve location information from Google Maps based on what’s entered into the location field when a job is submitted.

This is used to provide structured data for better integration with Google Job Search, and some third party themes/plugins use it to show listings on a map etc.

Getting an API key

You can get a Google Maps API by following Google’s instructions here.

Make sure your API key has the ‘Geocoding API’ enabled.

To use the API key, you must enable billing on your Google project. The Geocoding API uses pay-as-you-go pricing with “$200 USD free credit each month,” and you can set usage caps to control costs.

How to verify if Geocoding is working?

Create a new job listing with a location name, view the job listing in wp-admin. It should contain the location details in custom fields.

When are API calls made?

• A job is submitted.
• The location of a job is changed.
• Jobs are imported (using WP All Import) that have location data.

Geolocation data for a particular location is cached for 1 week, so an API call is not necessarily made every time in the above instances.

Is this optional?

The API key is required if you want your job listings to contain geolocation data. Without the key, location entries are stored as plain text in the _job_location custom field.

Overview

For users who opt-in to usage tracking in WP Job Manager, certain information about your site’s content and settings will be tracked and stored. This enables better feature development decisions and targeted messaging.

WP Job Manager Info and System Info tracking data is sent automatically once opted in, then once every 2 weeks. Event tracking is sent as events occur. Data handling follows Automattic’s Privacy Policy.

WP Job Manager Info

Tracked metrics include:

• Total number of users with WP Job Manager-specific roles (e.g., employers)
• Custom post type counts by status (e.g., job listings, company video fields)
• Taxonomy counts (e.g., job types, descriptions)
• Jobs by default type
• Shortcode attribute usage
• All WP Job Manager settings values
• User interactions within the WordPress admin for WP Job Manager content

System Info

Tracked system data includes:

• Site URL and admin email
• Activated plugins and versions
• Active theme and version
• WordPress and PHP versions
• Locale/language and multisite status

Events

• Job listing submissions (source only: admin or frontend form)
• Extension license activation/deactivation and errors

Resumes default to the permalink ‘resume’. So, for example, a resume may have the following URL: http://yoursite.com/resume/john-xyz

To change that to something else, e.g. ‘cv’, you can add the following code using the Code Snippets plugin.

function change_resume_slug( $args ) {
  $args['rewrite']['slug'] = _x( 'cv', 'Resume permalink - resave permalinks after changing this', 'wp_job_manager_resumes' );
  return $args;
}

add_filter( 'register_post_type_resume', 'change_resume_slug' );