In celebration of Vietnam’s Reunification Day and International Workers’ Day, we want to make you aware of some special events in EngineThemes. Although there will be some delay in our support work, don’t worry too much. Coming together with it are the 25% discount program and the first FREE EngineThemes’ product ever!
Support delay schedule
To celebrate the special days, we have a few days off, from April 30th to May 4th.
Therefore, questions about technical issues will be resolved when we resume our works on May 5th. In regards to urgent cases and basic support requests, we will try our best to answer them as soon as we can.
After this short break, our team will be back with full power to serve you better. Should you have any concerns, please feel free to contact us at contact@enginethemes.com.
We really appreciate your patience and understanding.
March has been a super busy month for us since we decided to push all our effort to the limit. Although there were a few changes to our original release plan, we reached most of the targets and even add a few other updates along the way. Let’s go through the latest versions of the themes in this post.
JobEngine v2.8
Following version 2.7, which allows jobseekers to post and edit resume from their mobile devices, employers now can also submit their jobs from the small screens in this latest version. This is one of the most important features that we have implemented in our recent updates and also the one being requested most by our customers.
Sticky threads
This must-have feature has been supported in ForumEngine v1.3. Administrators can now “pin” their important announcements or any trendy topics at the top of the thread lists, with a couple clicks on the new frontend control buttons.
If all sticky threads were at the top of the homepage list, it would push down the other threads and make the reading experience frustrating. So we decided to support different scopes for sticky threads: either only in category page or in homepage as well.
Clicking on the “star” icon next to a thread makes it sticky in its category’s thread list. Another click on the “global” icon will also pin it on the homepage list.
Submit your Ideas to EngineThemes
We have been receiving lots and lots of ideas from our beloved customers about new features or new themes to implement. Your ideas have help us to provide a better service and better products over time. Thank you!
Today, we’re excited to introduce the new “Ideas” categories in our official Forums. This should be your place to go to every time you think of essential features we haven’t implemented, or when you have an awesome theme/plugin idea you think we should look into.
Just log into your customer account, and you can start submitting idea threads. Make sure you express each idea in a separate thread for easier rating and reviewing.
Well, you should visit the forums to get your ideas heard now!
Intro page template
Since we launched JobEngine, there have been many requests to have a custom front page instead of viewing the job listings right away. With version 2.6, the theme now includes a page template crafted for this purpose. The intro page is designed with a simple approach to help job board owners easily customize it to suit their needs.
After updating the theme to v2.6, go to WordPress Pages and add a page for your front page. Then, select “Intro Page” for the “Template” of the page in the “Page Attributes” box. You can then try to view this page in the frontend after publishing it.
Finally, visit WordPress Settings – Reading. You need to set the above intro page as the front page of your job board to have it shown correctly.
This week’s release would be a great news for developers since we finally support adding code snippets in posts. You can see this feature in action right in our official forums.
While the code snippet support has been expected in our March plan, we have an unplanned feature included in this release. If you were a frequent members in our forums, you would have notice the title badges for different member roles. We’re glad to say it has been added to this week’s version now.
JE Custom Fields v2.0
This week’s releases point the focus on the Custom Fields extension for JobEngine.
In the previous versions of JE Custom Fields, you are able to add more fields for the job listings.
Although this feature is a great addition for customers who have specific needs for their job board, we have received many requests to expand the ability of the extension to also cover the resume listings. With this release, we’re glad to announce that those requests have been fulfilled.
For the text and textarea fields, the extension work similarly to job fields. However, the case is a little bit different for the “multi-value” tags, drop down and checkbox fields. When adding fields with those types, a taxonomy or tag (for “multi-value text”) is automatically created in the Resumes section. We decided to implement the new fields this way for easier data filtering when needed in the future.
We have received a lot of requests for heads-upon the future updates of the themes. And we thought it’s a good idea to share to you what we’re cooking for our themes for their near future versions. Gladly, our plan for this March is ready and we’re excited to let you know.
With JobEngine and ClassifiedEngine, there are so many grounds to cover and March will surely be a busy month for the EngineThemes team.
1) Job application on mobile.
Jobseekers can now submit their job applications via mobile. But this feature only uses the online resume when sending applications, which means that only jobseekers who have created online profiles can conveniently send their resumes to employers.
Another thing to note – if admin turned off the Resume section, the button “Apply for this Job” is changed to “Save this Job” which enables users to get an email reminder of the job.
2) Skip step to select payment plan if the company has a paid package.
If an employer has an existing paid package plan and clicks Post a Job, the page won’t display the “Select payment plan” step anymore but will automatically redirects him to Step 2 to fill out job and company details. But of course, the job poster can always click on Step 1 to select another plan.
