Folders for WP Job Manager jobs
Expired and filled jobs stay in the admin list. After a few hiring seasons, the ten jobs that are open today sit between hundreds that closed long ago.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the Job Manager list. Group jobs by employer, client or department and open just the folder you need. Status, expiry dates, categories and job pages stay as they are.
Three hundred old jobs around ten open ones
By default, WP Job Manager does not delete a job when it expires. It sets the status to Expired, and the job stays in the admin list. Filled jobs stay too. Many sites keep them on purpose, for their records or for search traffic, so the list grows every month.
The settings that hide expired and filled jobs work on the job board, for visitors. In wp-admin you still see every job.
There is no admin filter by employer either. Company is a field, so people add a public category or tag for each client, just to find their jobs again.
Hundreds of expired jobs, kept on purpose
People who run job boards rarely want to delete old jobs. They keep them for their records and for search traffic, so the admin list only grows.
Old jobs leave the job board, but every one of them is still there in the admin.
About sixty live jobs, and around three hundred expired ones kept to look back on.
Expired jobs still bring visitors from search. Delete them, and search engines start to complain.
Employers keep adding more and more jobs. Each job also gets a category with the company name, only to list one company’s jobs together.
Old jobs can stay. File them in folders by client or by year, and the open jobs are one click away.
Folders that match how you hire
By employer or client
Agencies and job boards post for many companies. One folder per client shows everything that client has posted, open or closed.
By department
Sales, warehouse, office: each team finds its own jobs without a public category for every department.
By hiring round
Spring 2026, summer staff, graduate program: keep each round together, from the first post to the last filled job.
Closed jobs by year
Move expired and filled jobs into a folder for their year. They keep their status and their URL; you just stop scrolling past them.
Jobs you post again
Some roles open every season. Keep the posts that worked in one folder, so the next season starts from a good example.
The folder panel on the Job Listings screen
A folder tree next to your jobs
The panel sits beside Job Manager → Job Listings. Click a folder and the list shows only its jobs.
Status tabs and search inside a folder
Open a folder, then click Expired or search by title: you see only that folder’s jobs.
Counts that include expired jobs
A folder counts what the All view shows: published, expired, scheduled, draft, pending and private jobs. Trash and job previews are not counted.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a recruiter.
The job board never sees your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a job in a folder | Its Plathix folder | Status, expiry date, category, job type and job page |
| Move expired jobs to “Closed 2025” | The folder tree in wp-admin | Expired jobs keep their status and their URL |
| Rename or move a folder | The folder tree in wp-admin | Every job URL and the job board |
| 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 and never appear on the job board.
How we test WP Job Manager
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current WP Job Manager version, on the real Job Listings 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 (job_listing) in Enabled Sections; the panel and the Folder column appear on Job Listings. | Planned |
| Expired tab | Open a folder, then the Expired status tab: only that folder’s expired jobs show. | Planned |
| Counts | Expired and filled jobs count in their folder; job previews do not. | Planned |
| Plugin filters | A folder together with WP Job Manager’s category, Filled and Featured filters. | Planned |
| Job board unchanged | Job pages, URLs, categories and the jobs page look the same. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed job comes back to its folder. | Planned |
WP Job Manager folders FAQ
Do folders change my jobs or the job board?
Will a folder called Archive hide old jobs from visitors?
Are expired jobs counted in the folder?
Do I still need a category for each client?
Can each employer see only their own folder?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep the job board for candidates. Keep the folders for your team.
Jobs grouped by employer, department or year. Nothing changes on the job board.