Job board · WP Career Board
Build a free WordPress job board with WP Career Board
A job board where employers post, candidates apply, and both keep a profile and a feed instead of an email address. WP Career Board runs the listings free, BuddyNext runs the community free, and Reign styles both directly. WP Job Manager is the mature alternative and Reign styles that too.
The Reign theme is the only thing you have to buy. See every plugin that installs free, or have us install the whole stack for $699.
Stack recipe
What you need to assemble.
Buy the theme. Install our plugins free. The third-party engine and its Reign add-on are here for people already running that stack, not a second bill everyone pays.
Build it in 5 steps
From zero to live community.
Install Reign, the one purchase
Reign is $99 a year or $249 once for a single site, and it is the only purchase the board requires. Import a demo so you are working against a finished layout rather than an empty page.
Add the community engine, free
BuddyNext free gives employers and candidates profiles, an activity feed, messages, and notifications. That is the difference between a board and a list of links: people come back for the community even in the months they are not job hunting. BuddyNext Pro adds advanced moderation and deeper analytics from $149 a year.
Open the board with WP Career Board, free
The free version covers job listings, search and filters, and applications, styled by Reign out of the box. Publish the first roles, check that the filters match how your niche actually searches, and fix the taxonomy now rather than after 500 listings.
Fill the board before you launch it
An empty board never recovers from its first impression. List 50 sample roles gathered from public sources, approach 10 employers personally, and reach 100 listings before you promote the site anywhere. Then add a discussion space in Jetonomy free, because candidates ask the same salary and interview questions forever and the accepted-answer format keeps them findable.
Know where free stops, and when WP Job Manager wins
Employer dashboards, resumes, paid listings, and a hiring pipeline are WP Career Board Pro, from $69 a year, which is exactly the point the board starts earning. If your board already runs on WP Job Manager, do not move it: the Reign WP Job Manager Addon at $39 a year for one site restyles the archive and single-job pages and leaves your data and its add-ons alone.
Add these free
More pieces you can add at no cost.
Same team builds the theme and the plugins, so these inherit the Reign design instead of needing custom CSS. The ones marked free install at no cost, and upgrades are sold per plugin, so nothing here needs a bundle.
BuddyNext
Our own community engine: profiles, activity, groups, messages, notifications.
Reign Demo Installer
One-click import of 30+ demo sites. Free with Reign theme.
Wbcom Essential
Free utility plugin bundling small enhancements for BP + Reign.
BuddyPress Check-ins
Daily check-ins build streaks + accountability.
BuddyPress Follow
Follow members + see their activity in a custom feed.
BuddyPress Giphy
GIF integration in posts + comments.
BuddyPress Group Reviews
Members rate + review groups. Helps surface active spaces.
BuddyPress Member Reviews
Members rate + review each other. Trust signal for marketplaces.
See every plugin and what its free version does. Third-party tools such as LearnDash, Dokan, and MemberPress still fit where you already run them, and Reign styles those too.
FAQ
Common questions.
What is in the free version of WP Career Board?
Job listings, search and filters, and applications. Employer dashboards, resumes, paid listings, and a hiring pipeline are Pro, from $69 a year. So free runs a working board; Pro is what turns it into a business.
When should I use WP Job Manager instead?
When you already run it. It has the largest install base, a clean data model, and a mature add-on ecosystem including Applications, Resume Manager, and WC Paid Listings. Migrating off it buys you nothing, and the Reign WP Job Manager Addon at $39 a year for one site is the whole job of making it match the theme.
How do I charge employers?
WP Career Board Pro sells paid listings directly, from $69 a year. On the WP Job Manager path, WC Paid Listings turns each job post into a WooCommerce product so you can charge per listing, sell employer subscriptions, or both. Do not switch on paid listings before the board has traffic worth paying for.
What does the whole thing cost?
Reign at $99 a year or $249 lifetime for one site, and nothing else at launch. WP Career Board Pro at $69 a year when you need employer dashboards and paid listings. The WP Job Manager route adds a $39-a-year Reign add-on instead, or the JobMate Theme kit from $129 a year for theme and add-on together.
Do candidates need an account?
WP Career Board free handles the application itself. BuddyNext gives every member a profile, a feed, and messages for free, which is what makes an account worth keeping between job searches instead of a one-time form fill. Resumes and employer-side dashboards arrive with WP Career Board Pro.
Ship it
Reign is the only thing you have to buy.
WP Career Board and the rest of our plugins install free, and the theme styles them out of the box. Building on WP Job Manager instead? The JobMate Theme kit ships the theme with the matching Reign add-on.