Candidate Social Links

Resumes can display links to a candidate’s social and professional profiles. The addon ships a modern repeatable field plus a legacy set of single fields, with automatic handling of existing data. This feature requires WP Job Manager Resumes.

Modern social links

The recommended interface is a single repeatable field where a candidate picks a network from a dropdown and enters the profile URL, then repeats for each additional profile. The dropdown covers ten networks:

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• X (Twitter)
• Behance
• Dribbble
• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube
• TikTok
• Pinterest

Legacy social fields

Older resumes may carry the legacy single fields (LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter, Behance, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest). These continue to work. Existing legacy data is still read and displayed, so no data is lost when you move to the modern field.

Controlling the display

Three filters govern social links. Add them in your child theme’s functions.php.

// Turn all candidate social fields off.
add_filter( 'reign_wpjm_enable_social_fields', '__return_false' );

// Use the legacy single fields instead of the modern repeatable field.
add_filter( 'reign_wpjm_use_modern_social_field', '__return_false' );

// Use the legacy display method instead of the modern one on the front end.
add_filter( 'reign_wpjm_use_modern_social_display', '__return_false' );

// Adjust the list of networks offered in the modern dropdown.
add_filter( 'reign_wpjm_social_fields', function ( $fields ) {
    // Add or remove networks here.
    return $fields;
} );

Helper functions

Two template helpers are available for theme developers who want to output social links in a custom location:

• jobmate_get_candidate_social_links() - returns the candidate’s social links.
• jobmate_display_candidate_social_links() - echoes the formatted social links.

Both handle the modern and legacy formats, so they render correctly regardless of which format a resume was saved with.