Folders for Simple Job Board jobs
The free Simple Job Board has no Filled or Closed state. When a role is filled, you delete the job, unpublish it by hand or leave it where it is. A year later, open roles and old ones share one list.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the Job Board list. Sort jobs by team, hiring round or year and open just the folder you need. Your careers page, job URLs, categories and locations stay as they are.
Filled roles have nowhere to go
In Simple Job Board a job has the usual WordPress statuses: published, draft, private and so on. There is no Filled or Closed state, so old roles stay mixed with the open ones, or wait in drafts until the same role opens again.
The jobs list has no filter by team or hiring round. Job categories, types and locations are public: each one makes a page on your careers site. They are not the place for internal notes.
A folder is. It groups jobs for your team in wp-admin and changes nothing on the site.
Old roles wait in drafts until they open again
Teams that post their own jobs talk less about new roles and more about the old ones: filled, parked or posted again.
Jobs come and go. They sit in drafts until the same role is hiring again.
A filled job should leave the careers page but stay in the jobs list, in case the role opens again.
An Archive category was the first idea. It stops working when new categories are added all the time.
Many roles are almost the same. Typing every field again for each new post takes a lot of time.
Folders give filled and parked roles their own place in wp-admin, with no public category and nothing deleted.
Folders for a careers page
By team
Warehouse, office, stores: each hiring manager finds their roles in one click.
By hiring round
Spring hiring, summer staff, graduate program 2026: keep a round together from the first post to the last hire.
Filled roles, kept
Set a filled job to Draft or Private, as you would in WordPress, and move it to a Filled folder. It is off the careers page but still at hand if the role opens again.
Jobs to review
A new job lands in Uncategorized. A To check folder holds the ones that still need a last read before they go live.
Roles you post every year
Keep last year’s seasonal posts in one folder as a starting point for the next season.
The folder panel on the All Jobs screen
A folder tree next to your jobs
The panel sits beside Job Board → All Jobs. Click a folder and the list shows only its jobs.
Drafts and private jobs count
A folder counts what the All view shows: published, scheduled, draft, pending and private jobs. Trash is not counted.
A Folder column
Every row shows its folder, along with Job Categories, Job Locations and the View Applications link.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder. Send a hiring manager the link to their team’s folder.
Your careers page never sees your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a job in a folder | Its Plathix folder | Title, status, categories, location and job URL |
| Move a filled job to “Filled – keep” | The folder tree in wp-admin | Its status: it stays published until you change it |
| Rename or move a folder | The folder tree in wp-admin | Every job URL and the careers page |
| Trash a job, then restore it | Its Trash state | Its folder: it comes back to the same place |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The list looks like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs, are not job categories and never appear on the site.
How we test Simple Job Board
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current Simple Job Board version, on the real All Jobs screen.
Status Planned
Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable jobs | Turn on Jobs (jobpost) in Enabled Sections; the panel and the Folder column appear on All Jobs. | Planned |
| Drafts and private | Draft and private jobs count in their folder; trashed jobs do not. | Planned |
| View Applications | The applications link and its number on each row, with a folder open. | Planned |
| Search in a folder | Search by title finds jobs only inside the open folder. | Planned |
| Careers page unchanged | Job pages, URLs, categories and locations look the same. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed job comes back to its folder. | Planned |
Simple Job Board folders FAQ
Do folders change my careers page?
Does moving a job to a Filled folder close it?
Should I use a folder or a job category?
Do applications get folders?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep your careers page simple. Keep the old roles in folders.
Jobs grouped by team, hiring round or year. Nothing changes for candidates.