I wanted to make a job board. As usual I wanted to use wordpress and not anything else. WordPress ceases to amaze me… I was able to accomplish a fully functional job board (according to my standards). Check it out here SportsTrainingJobs.com

So a few weeks ago I saw a similar job board here

I e-mailed the site and asked them how they did it. All they told me was that they were using a plug-in and some custom coding… I already new that!!! lol. So they weren’t giving up their secrets of how to create a free job board.

So my search began. After a couple weeks I was finally able to find a solution at some random site… which I forgot to document I found it here… but that’s o.k. I will still share my secrets with you… (Don’t download their files just instal TDO Mini Forms and then follow the directions.)

The solution required using TDO Mini Forms. This plugin allows you to set up a form that allows any member or non member to create a post depending on the settings you set of course. Once the post is created all you have to do is change the status to published and the post is live.

So my process went something like this.

• Install WordPress 3.0
• Instal TDO Mini Forms
• Modify 2010 (the wp theme) loop.php, functions.php and other tweaks
• Style it in CSS

I was up and running. Check it out here SportsTrainingJobs.com.

Capabilities:

• Non-Member Users can posts jobs.
• Jobs are seperated into categories
• Search function targets only job posts

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