Download websites that use WP Job Openings

About WP Job Openings

A careers page is a small piece of software with an unusually direct meaning. When a company installs WP Job Openings, it has decided to publish its own openings, take applications on its own domain and keep the resumes in its own database instead of routing candidates through a job board. The decision is rarely about technology. It is about wanting the hiring pipeline to start on a page the company controls.

The plugin itself is ordinary WordPress infrastructure, which is exactly what makes the signal useful. AWSM Innovations publishes it in PHP under GPL v2, so it installs into the site and runs there, with job posts stored as a custom content type and applications collected and managed inside the site's own admin. Nothing about that stack is remarkable. The remarkable part is that a job posting system says something about the organization behind the site rather than about its web stack, and few technologies work that way.

The version spread shows how long these installs live. We record 40 distinct releases in the field and 4.1.0 as the release we see most often, a range that only accumulates when software is installed, used through a hiring cycle and then left running between cycles. A careers page is not something anyone revisits while nothing is being advertised, which leads directly to the main caveat. The plugin being present means the capability exists. The plugin being present does not mean a role is open today. Anyone treating the list as live hiring demand will overcount, and the honest use is as a list of employers who hire on their own site, sampled at export time.

The population is worth having on those terms. As of October 2026 we detect WP Job Openings on 5,212 sites, from a plugin AWSM Innovations has been shipping since 2017, and the organizations inside it skew towards small and mid sized employers, nonprofits, clinics, schools and agencies. Applicant tracking vendors and recruitment platforms sell to that profile and normally have to find them one at a time. Staffing firms want the same list read the other way, as employers already committed to hiring directly. Labor market researchers get something unusual, which is a supply side sample assembled from company owned pages rather than from aggregator listings that duplicate and expire unpredictably.

A lookup answers whether one company posts jobs on its own site. The file answers who all of them are, where they are, what else they run and how the group changes between exports, which is the difference between checking a lead and sizing a market.