Company Profile Sidebar

The Company Profile block renders a right-column sidebar on every company single page (/companies/<slug>/). The sidebar always shows three useful Career Board cards out of the box, so the column is never wasted. Customisation is done with PHP filters, not the WordPress widget screen (see Customising the sidebar).

What it looks like

On desktop (>1024px) the company profile renders in a two-column grid:

• Main column (left): the About, Company Details, and Open Positions sections.
• Sidebar column (right, 320px): the three Career Board cards below.

On mobile (1024px and under) the sidebar stacks below the main content.

Default behaviour (no setup required)

The sidebar always renders these three Career Board blocks:

Block	What it shows
Similar Companies (wp-career-board/similar-companies-card)	Companies in the same industry as the company being viewed.
Recent Jobs (wp-career-board/recent-jobs)	The 5 most recently published jobs across the board.
Job Alerts CTA (wp-career-board/job-alert-card)	A small card linking candidates to the alerts signup flow.

You don’t have to do anything to get these.

Note: earlier builds let admins place widgets in a “Company Profile Sidebar” widget area under Appearance → Widgets. That widget area was retired because generic footer/sidebar widgets were routinely misassigned there and rendered incorrectly on the company page. The sidebar is now driven entirely by the block and the filters below.

Customising the sidebar {#customising-the-sidebar}

Replace, reorder, or extend the three default cards with the wcb_company_sidebar_blocks filter. Each entry is a Gutenberg block-comment string passed to do_blocks():

add_filter(
    'wcb_company_sidebar_blocks',
    function ( array $blocks, int $company_id ): array {
        // Append the Job Stats card to the defaults.
        $blocks[] = '<!-- wp:wp-career-board/job-stats /-->';
        return $blocks;
    },
    10,
    2
);

Return an empty array to render no cards. To inject arbitrary markup before or after the cards, use the companion action hooks - both run inside the <aside class="wcb-cp-sidebar"> element:

add_action( 'wcb_company_sidebar_before', function ( int $company_id ) { /* echo markup */ } );
add_action( 'wcb_company_sidebar_after',  function ( int $company_id ) { /* echo markup */ } );

Which Career Board blocks fit well in the sidebar

These Career Board blocks are 320px-friendly and work well as sidebar cards:

• Similar Companies (wp-career-board/similar-companies-card) - same-industry companies, with optional Company ID for use on non-company pages.
• Recent Jobs (wp-career-board/recent-jobs) - latest published jobs.
• Featured Jobs (wp-career-board/featured-jobs) - featured listings grid.
• Job Alerts CTA (wp-career-board/job-alert-card) - signup nudge card.
• Job Stats (wp-career-board/job-stats) - aggregate counts.

All ship as shortcodes too if you’re using a page builder:

• [wcb_similar_companies count="5"]
• [wcb_recent_jobs count="5"]
• [wcb_featured_jobs perPage="3"]
• [wcb_job_alert_card]
• [wcb_job_stats]

Suppression of the theme’s own sidebar

On company singles, Career Board hides the active theme’s primary sidebar (#secondary, .widget-area, aside.sidebar, etc.) and forces the parent content column to full width. This is intentional: themes often pre-populate their sidebars with Archives, Categories, Recent Posts widgets that don’t make sense on a company page. The company-profile block takes over that space and renders its own sidebar instead.

If you want the theme’s primary sidebar to remain visible on company pages too, you can filter it back in with a tiny mu-plugin:

add_action(
    'wp_enqueue_scripts',
    function () {
        if ( is_singular( 'wcb_company' ) ) {
            wp_add_inline_style(
                'wp-career-board-company-profile-style',
                '.wcb-company-page #secondary { display: block !important; }'
            );
        }
    },
    20
);

This is rarely needed - the in-block sidebar is the cleaner UX - but it’s available as an override.

Standalone use on other pages

These sidebar blocks also work outside the company-profile context:

• wp-career-board/similar-companies-card has a Company ID attribute in the editor inspector. Drop the block on any page and set the ID to anchor it to a specific company. Leave blank when used inside the Company Profile Sidebar (it auto-resolves there).

• wp-career-board/job-alert-card has fully editable title, body, button text, and URL. Use it on landing pages, footer columns, or wherever you want a “Get Job Alerts” CTA.

Theme compatibility

Tested across:

• BuddyX Pro (the company-page CSS overrides BuddyX’s grid-template-columns: 978px 260px to single-column on company singles so our content fills the freed space).
• Reign.
• Astra, Kadence, GeneratePress (collapse via .ast-container, .container-grid selector overrides).
• Twenty Twenty-Three / Four / Five (block themes work out of the box).

If you find a theme where the layout looks wrong, file an issue with the active theme name plus a screenshot - the per-theme CSS shim is a one-line addition.

Where to go next

• ../tutorials/02-employer-end-to-end.md - how employers use the company profile.
• ../for-candidates/02-finding-jobs.md - candidate-side experience the sidebar is designed to help.