WP Job Manager

The WordPress plugin most job boards are quietly built on, with employer applications and paid listings sold as official add-ons.

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Best for: Teams already on WordPress who want the most battle-tested job-board plugin ecosystem - employer submission forms, an applications inbox, and paid listings all exist as official add-ons.
Skip if: You want a modern JS-framework stack or everything included by default - the free core covers only listings/submission forms; applications, resumes, and paid listings need separate paid add-ons.

WP Job Manager is Automattic's open-source WordPress plugin for running a job board: the free core gives you job listing post types, frontend forms so employers can submit jobs without admin access, shortcode-driven search/filter listings, Google JobPosting schema markup, and a front-end jobs dashboard. Employer application management, candidate resumes, and paid listing checkout (via a WooCommerce integration) are sold as official add-ons individually or in a bundle starting at $159/year. It's GPL-licensed, hosted on GitHub, and remains under active development.

Pros

By far the most battle-tested option in this category: built by Automattic, running on a large share of WordPress-based job boards, with 899 GitHub stars and commits as recent as this week.
The free core plugin alone covers real job-board basics - SEO-friendly listing pages, Google JobPosting schema markup, and frontend employer submission forms - without paying anything.
Applications, candidate resumes, and paid listings are all solved problems via official add-ons rather than things you'd have to build, if you're willing to pay for the bundle.

Cons

It's WordPress: you inherit PHP/MySQL hosting, plugin-update maintenance, and WordPress's general security-patching cadence rather than a clean modern-framework deploy.
The features a real job-board product needs most - applicant tracking, candidate accounts, paid postings - aren't in the free core; budget for the $159/yr add-on bundle (or pick add-ons individually) rather than treating it as free.
Customization beyond what add-ons and hooks cover means working within WordPress's plugin/theme conventions, a different developer experience than a typical Next.js or Laravel starter.