Moderation

Moderation controls whether jobs need admin approval before they go live. It prevents spam and low-quality listings on your board.

How Moderation Works

When Auto-Publish Jobs is turned off (the default), every job submitted by an employer goes to a Pending state and must be approved by an admin before it appears on the job board.

When Auto-Publish Jobs is turned on, submitted jobs go live immediately without review.

To toggle moderation: WP Career Board → Settings → Job Listings → Auto-Publish Jobs

Reviewing Pending Jobs

1. Go to WP Career Board → Jobs in wp-admin
2. Click the Pending filter at the top of the list
3. Click any job title to open the full edit screen and review the content

Approving a Job

Quick approval (from the list):

1. Hover over the job in the list
2. Click Approve under the title

Full review (from the edit screen):

1. Open the job in the wp-admin editor
2. Review all details
3. Change the status to Published in the Post Status panel
4. Click Update

When a job is approved, the employer receives an email notification.

Rejecting a Job

1. Open the job in the wp-admin editor
2. Change the status to Draft or Trash
3. Optionally email the employer with a reason (done manually outside the plugin)

Managing Existing Jobs

Admins have full control over all jobs from WP Career Board → Jobs:

• Edit any job (correct errors, add missing info)
• Close a job that is running too long
• Delete spam or low-quality listings

Reported Jobs (Flagged)

Any logged-in user can report a published job from its single page (“Report this job”, with a reason). Reports are stored on the job and deduplicated per user, so one person reporting the same job repeatedly counts once.

Moderators and admins review reports from WP Career Board → Jobs:

1. Click the Flagged view at the top of the list (it appears, with a count, only when one or more jobs have open report flags).
2. The Flags column shows how many open reports each job has.
3. Resolve a flagged job with the row or bulk actions (the row action is Dismiss flag; the bulk action is Dismiss flags):
   • Dismiss flag(s) - clears the open reports and leaves the job published (the report was not actionable).
   • Unpublish - takes the job down and clears its reports.

Resolving flags requires the Moderate Jobs capability (wcb_moderate_jobs), the same gate as approving and rejecting jobs.

Admin Notifications

Admins receive a New Job Pending Review email when an employer submits a job for approval. This is the only admin-facing email notification. Notification content can be customized in Settings → Emails.