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Job Feed / XML Syndication (Pro)

The Job Feed publishes all your live jobs as an XML feed at a fixed URL. Submit this URL to Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and other job aggregators to automatically syndicate your listings.

Pro feature - Requires the WP Career Board Pro plugin to be installed and active. Every Pro feature works as soon as the plugin is active; the license key only powers automatic updates, it never gates functionality.

Feed URL

Section titled “Feed URL”
https://yoursite.com/wcb-jobs.xml

The feed is disabled by default. Enable it in Career Board -> Settings -> Job Feed.

Feed Format

Section titled “Feed Format”

The feed uses the Indeed XML format, which is also accepted by Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and most other major job aggregators. The document opens with a <source> element carrying <publisher> (your site name) and <publisherurl> (your site URL), followed by one <job> entry per listing.

Each <job> entry contains:

Field Source
<title> Job post title
<date> Publication date (RFC-822 GMT)
<referencenumber> WordPress post ID
<url> Public permalink
<company> _wcb_company_name meta
<city> First term from the wcb_location taxonomy
<country> Currently emitted empty
<description> Job description (HTML stripped, wrapped in CDATA)
<salary> Formatted min-max range, e.g. $80,000 - $120,000 / yearly
<jobtype> First term from the wcb_job_type taxonomy
<email> Contact email from feed settings
<expirationdate> _wcb_deadline meta

The salary uses the job’s own currency symbol from the plugin currency catalog (USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, INR, SGD), so a EUR or INR job is not exported with a hardcoded dollar sign.

Setup

Section titled “Setup”

Step 1: Enable the Feed

Section titled “Step 1: Enable the Feed”
  1. Go to Career Board -> Settings -> Job Feed
  2. Toggle Enable Feed on
  3. The feed URL appears immediately below the toggle

Step 2: Set the Contact Email

Section titled “Step 2: Set the Contact Email”

Enter the email address to include in the <email> field of every job entry. This is the address aggregators and candidates use to contact you about listings. It defaults to the WordPress admin email.

Step 3: Submit to Indeed

Section titled “Step 3: Submit to Indeed”
  1. Log in to the Indeed Employer Portal
  2. Go to Integrations -> Job Feed
  3. Enter your feed URL: https://yoursite.com/wcb-jobs.xml
  4. Indeed re-fetches the feed every 24 hours

Pagination

Section titled “Pagination”

The feed returns up to 200 jobs per page. If you have more than 200 published jobs, append a start parameter to retrieve additional pages:

https://yoursite.com/wcb-jobs.xml?start=0    <- jobs 1-200
https://yoursite.com/wcb-jobs.xml?start=200  <- jobs 201-400
https://yoursite.com/wcb-jobs.xml?start=400  <- jobs 401-600

Caching

Section titled “Caching”

Each feed page is cached for one hour using WordPress transients. The cache key includes a version number stored in the wcbp_feed_version option, and that version is bumped every time a job is saved. The next request after a save therefore reads a fresh feed (its key no longer matches the old cached copy), and stale per-page caches expire naturally within the hour. The feed also sends a Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600 header for CDN edge caching.

Disabling the Feed

Section titled “Disabling the Feed”

Toggle Enable Feed off. The URL returns a 404 response instead of XML. Aggregators that poll the URL will stop receiving new listings.