Rixden Career Manager for WordPress Plugin Directory

Stop paying for expensive hiring software. Rixden Career Manager gives you everything you need to post job listings and manage applications right inside WordPress — beautifully designed, lightweight, and ready in minutes.

Drop a single shortcode on any page and your visitors see a modern, fully filterable careers page with search, department and location filters, favorites, and professional apply modals. No coding, no complex setup, no monthly fees.

Why Rixden Career Manager? Most small businesses don’t need BambooHR, Workable, or Greenhouse. They need a simple way to post open positions, collect resumes, and keep track of candidates. That’s exactly what this plugin does.

Features

Beautiful admin dashboard with stat cards and recent activity overview

Unlimited departments with alphabetical ordering and duplicate prevention

Unlimited locations — create named locations from a dedicated admin tab, used as a dropdown filter and sidebar filter on the frontend

Unlimited job listings with all fields (title, location, salary, type, model, experience, department, expiry, description, logo)

Unlimited applications with resume uploads (PDF or Word, up to 5MB)

Modern frontend careers page via shortcode with search bar

Locations dropdown in the topbar for quick location filtering

Multi-select sidebar filters for departments, job types, work models, and locations with live counts

Active filter pills above job cards with individual remove and “Clear All”

Session favorites — visitors can heart jobs and filter to favorites without logging in

Clickable job cards that open a detail/apply modal with full job information

Apply modal with resume upload form — no account required

Email notification to admin when a new application is received, with resume attached

Job preview modals in admin dashboard

Applicant count per job listing

Customisable card styling — title/body sizes, colors, button styles with hover effects

Automatic job expiry with optional expiry dates

Mobile responsive frontend with collapsible filter sidebar

Lightweight — no external dependencies, no custom database tables, system fonts

Works with any theme — scoped CSS that won’t conflict

Upgrade Path Locations created in the free version are fully compatible with Rixden Career Manager Pro. When you upgrade, all your locations, jobs, and applications carry over seamlessly.

Rixden Career Manager Pro Want to take your hiring to the next level? Upgrade to Pro for:

Application status pipeline with 6 color-coded stages and styled confirmation modals

Automated applicant emails — styled HTML emails for applications, status changes, registrations, and password resets

Custom email templates with variable support ({name}, {job_title}, {app_id}, etc.)

Application notes — chat-style internal notes with timestamps and usernames

CSV export of all application data

Job view tracking to see which listings get the most attention

Frontend sort — candidates can sort listings by date or salary

Multi-company recruiter system — frontend dashboard for recruiters to post and manage jobs, with approval workflows, decline/resubmit with notes, and per-company application management

Candidate dashboard — logged-in candidates can track their applications, view status history, manage saved jobs, and withdraw applications from a dedicated frontend dashboard

Login, register & password modals — AJAX-powered authentication modals for recruiters with password creation during registration

Login required to apply — optionally require candidates to be logged in before submitting applications, with automatic duplicate prevention

New application badges — badge counts for unseen applications, pending approvals, and pending recruiter registrations

CC emails & date/time — add CC recipients to application notifications, timestamps in site timezone

Account management — recruiters can change password and delete their account from the frontend dashboard

Social share buttons — LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Email, and copy-link buttons on individual job pages using inline SVGs with zero external dependencies

Priority support from the Rixden team

How It Works

Install and activate the plugin

Go to Career Manager in your WordPress admin

Create your Departments

Create your Locations

Create your first Job listing

Add the [rixden-careers] shortcode to any page

Start receiving applications!

External Services This plugin does not connect to or rely on any third-party or external services. All data is stored locally in your WordPress database.