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Jobs RSS Feed

The plugin exposes a rich RSS feed at /jobs/feed/ containing every published job with full metadata. Wire it up to RSS readers, IFTTT, Zapier, partner aggregators, or your own automation.

Where to find it

Section titled “Where to find it”
https://your-site.com/jobs/feed/

The URL respects whatever post-type slug you’ve configured (defaults to jobs). If you’ve changed the slug, the feed URL changes with it.

Item schema

Section titled “Item schema”

WP Career Board enriches WordPress core’s standard job feed: the core template provides <title>, <link>, <description>, <pubDate>, and <guid>, and the plugin injects the wcb:-namespaced fields below into each <item>. The plain-text <description> is also prefixed with a one-line “company - location - salary” summary so readers that ignore custom namespaces still get useful context.

Field Source
<wcb:company> Company name
<wcb:salary currency="..." period="..."> Salary wrapper; carries currency and period attributes and <wcb:min> / <wcb:max> children
<wcb:min> Minimum salary (numeric, no formatting), inside <wcb:salary>
<wcb:max> Maximum salary (numeric, no formatting), inside <wcb:salary>
<wcb:location> Job location term(s)
<wcb:type> Job type term(s) - Full-time, Part-time, Contract, etc.
<wcb:category> Job category term(s)
<wcb:tag> Job tag term(s)
<wcb:experience> Experience-level term(s)
<wcb:deadline> Application deadline - if set
<wcb:apply_url> Direct apply URL, if the employer set an external one
<wcb:apply_email> Direct apply email, if set
<wcb:remote> true or false

Multi-value fields (location, type, category, tag, experience) emit one element per term rather than a comma-joined string.

The wcb: namespace (https://wbcomdesigns.com/xmlns/wcb/1.0/) is declared on the <rss> root so RSS readers that support custom namespaces (most modern ones) can surface these fields.

Filtering the feed

Section titled “Filtering the feed”

The /jobs/feed/ route is the standard WordPress CPT feed enriched with the wcb: fields above; it does not add custom filter parameters of its own. For a filtered feed, use a taxonomy archive feed, which WordPress generates automatically from the registered WCB taxonomy query vars:

/jobs/feed/?wcb_category=engineering    # one category
/jobs/feed/?wcb_job_type=full-time      # one job type
/jobs/feed/?wcb_location=remote         # one location term

For richer filtering (salary range, remote flag, board, combined filters), use the REST endpoint described under Cache + performance below, which accepts the full job-query surface.

Use cases

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  • Cross-post to a Slack channel via Zapier or RSS-to-Slack integration when new jobs are published.
  • Job aggregator listings - many aggregators accept RSS as their ingestion format (Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Google Jobs feeds).
  • Email digest - feed an RSS-to-email tool (Mailchimp, ConvertKit) to send weekly digests.
  • Static site builder - feed Astro / Next.js / Hugo with the feed during build to render a careers page on a marketing site.
  • IFTTT / make.com - trigger downstream automations on new jobs.

Cache + performance

Section titled “Cache + performance”

The feed respects WordPress’s standard feed caching. WP_DEBUG-disabled production sites cache the feed output for ~5 minutes by default. Tools like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache also cache feeds.

If you need a real-time feed for a specific integration, hit the REST endpoint directly:

GET /wp-json/wcb/v1/jobs?per_page=20&orderby=date&order=DESC

The REST API returns JSON with the same data but without RSS-format overhead.