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SleekView Kanban for Simple Job Board

SleekView reads the jobpost custom post type, surfaces every opening as a card showing department, location, and posted date, and groups the board into Draft, Pending Review, Published, and Closed so you can drag jobs through your hiring pipeline without opening the editor.

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SleekView Kanban board for Simple Job Board

Simple Job Board needs a workflow view, not a listings screen

Simple Job Board registers a jobpost custom post type plus a jobpost_category taxonomy for departments. Each opening stores its location, posted date, and closing date in postmeta keys like jobpost_location, jobpost_posted, and jobpost_closing. The plugin uses the standard WordPress statuses (draft, pending, publish) plus a custom closed status when a position is no longer accepting applications.

SleekView reads the jobpost post type from wp_posts, joins in postmeta for the location, salary, and closing date, and groups the board into one column per status. The natural status field to group on is post_status: every position is exactly one of Draft, Pending Review, Published, or Closed, and SleekView picks up the custom closed status automatically without any configuration.

Dragging a card from Draft to Pending Review writes the new post_status through the standard WordPress API so the hiring manager's notification email fires through the plugin's own hooks. Dragging into Published is gated on the user's edit_published_posts capability, and the Closed column is one-way by default so positions cannot be silently reopened without leaving an audit trail in the post meta history.

Workflow

Four steps to a working hiring board

1

Point SleekView at the jobpost type

Open the SleekView column picker, pick WordPress posts as the source, and choose jobpost from the post type list. Every opening the plugin has stored appears as a card with its title, posted date, department taxonomy, and the location and closing date that live in postmeta.
2

Pick post_status as the column field

Choose post_status from the group-by dropdown and SleekView creates one column per status the plugin uses, including the custom closed status. You can rename Pending to Pending Review or reorder the columns by drag, but the underlying status names stay intact so reports and exports keep working.
3

Configure the card face

Pick four fields to show: job title, department from the jobpost_category taxonomy, location from postmeta, and closing date. Each card surfaces enough context for a hiring lead to triage a position without opening it, and you can add a corner accent color tied to the department taxonomy term.
4

Turn on drag-and-drop

Enable the drag toggle and every column accepts drops. Moving a card writes post_status back through wp_update_post so the plugin's transition hooks, notification emails, and any third-party caches react exactly as if you had used the admin editor. The Closed column is configured one-way by default.

Sample board

Sample Simple Job Board hiring board

A pipeline with four columns. Drafts hold positions still being written, Pending Review waits on a hiring manager, Published is everything currently live on the careers page, and Closed archives jobs that filled or expired.
Draft
6
Senior Product Designer
Design, Remote EU, draft
Lead Mobile Engineer
Engineering, Berlin, draft
Content Marketing Manager
Marketing, Remote US, draft
Pending Review
4
DevOps Engineer
Engineering, Lisbon, posted 2 Jun
People Operations Lead
Operations, Remote EU, posted 1 Jun
Customer Success Manager
Customer, Remote, posted 30 May
Published
18
Backend Engineer
Engineering, Remote EU, closes 30 Jun
Brand Designer
Design, Remote, closes 26 Jun
Sales Engineer
Sales, New York, closes 25 Jun
Closed
27
Frontend Engineer
Engineering, closed 28 May
Office Coordinator
Operations, closed 20 May
Junior Recruiter
People, closed 14 May

Comparison

Simple Job Board admin versus a hiring pipeline

Default Simple Job Board admin

  • All jobpost entries land in one table sorted by post date, with no awareness of hiring stages
  • Department taxonomy and location are buried behind sort columns rather than shown at a glance
  • Changing a status means opening the post and using the WordPress publishing block
  • There is no visible signal when a job has been in Draft or Pending for a long time
  • Counts per status only appear as filter links above the table, not on a real workflow board

SleekView Kanban

  • Groups by post_status including the plugin's custom closed status
  • Card face shows title, department taxonomy, location, and closing date
  • Drag actions update post_status through wp_update_post
  • Closed column is one-way by default so archived jobs cannot quietly reopen
  • Optional corner accent color driven by the jobpost_category taxonomy term

Features

What SleekView Kanban gives you for Simple Job Board

Status columns out of the box

SleekView reads the same statuses the plugin already registers, so Draft, Pending Review, Published, and Closed appear without any configuration. Custom statuses added by an extension are picked up automatically, and you can hide or rename columns without touching the source data.

Drag writes post_status

Moving a card from Pending Review to Published flips post_status to publish through wp_update_post. The standard transition hooks fire, the plugin's hiring manager notification goes out, and any caching layer invalidates the careers page just as if a recruiter had pressed Publish in the editor.

Closed column is one-way

Once a position lands in Closed, the column is read-only by default. You can reopen a job from the card menu, which prompts for a new closing date and writes a clear audit entry, but accidental drags back into Published are blocked so old roles never reappear on the careers page.

Audience

Three teams that already run their hiring from a kanban

Two-step approval queue

Writers prepare positions in Draft, drag them to Pending Review when they are ready, and a hiring lead drags approved jobs into Published. The flow matches what recruitment teams already do in spreadsheets, but the data stays in WordPress.

Time-boxed roles

Sort the Published column by closing date and drag any role within seven days of its deadline into Closing Soon. Recruiters see immediately which positions need a closing date extension or a featured boost before they drop out of search results.

Department pipelines

Filter the board by jobpost_category and you get a department-specific pipeline. Engineering managers see only Engineering openings, marketing leads see Marketing, and each team can run their own hiring rhythm without scrolling through unrelated roles.

The bigger picture

Why hiring deserves a kanban, not a posts table

Simple Job Board does a great job of putting a careers page online, but the admin side is just a WordPress posts table with a different label. Hiring is fundamentally a stage-based process: someone drafts a position, a manager approves it, recruiters source candidates, and eventually the role either gets filled or closes. A flat table fights that workflow at every step.

Recruiters miss positions that have been sitting in Pending Review for two weeks. Department leads cannot tell at a glance how many open roles they have. And every status change requires opening the editor, which makes the whole process feel like a chore.

A kanban view fits the actual shape of the work. Drafts are on the left, live positions in the middle, archived roles on the right. Every column shows a count so leadership can see pipeline health in one glance.

Drag-and-drop replaces a half-dozen clicks per status change, and because the underlying data stays in the standard jobpost custom post type, the careers page, search results, and any third-party integrations keep working without a single line of code changing.

Questions

Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Simple Job Board

Yes. The plugin registers closed as a real WordPress post status, and SleekView picks it up automatically when you choose post_status as the grouping field. You get Draft, Pending, Published, and Closed columns without any configuration, and any custom status added by a child theme or extension shows up the same way.

 

Yes. The plugin stores departments in the jobpost_category taxonomy, and SleekView surfaces taxonomy terms as a card field. You can show the primary department under the job title, or use it to drive the card border color so engineering, marketing, and operations roles are visually distinct at a glance even when the board is filtered to all departments.

 

SleekView writes post_status to closed through wp_update_post. The standard transition_post_status hook fires, the plugin's frontend stops showing the role in active listings, and the post meta history records who closed it and when. The Closed column is one-way by default so positions cannot accidentally drag back into Published; reopening uses an explicit card action.

 

Yes. Because every move goes through wp_update_post rather than a direct database write, the standard transition_post_status and save_post hooks fire just like a manual save in the admin editor. The plugin's hiring manager notification, any third-party Slack notifier, and the rewrite cache invalidation all run exactly as if you had pressed Publish from the post screen.

 

Yes. Simple Job Board stores location and salary in postmeta with keys like jobpost_location and jobpost_salary. SleekView lets you pick any postmeta key as a card field, format it (currency, location string, dates), and show it next to the job title. A common card face shows title, department, location, and closing date in that order.

 

It surfaces the closing date as a card field and lets you sort the Published column by it. The actual transition to Closed is handled by the plugin's own scheduled task, so SleekView reflects the new status the next time the board renders. You can manually drag a role into Closed earlier if a position fills before its scheduled close date.

 

Yes. The SleekView filter bar reads the same taxonomies the plugin already registers, plus any postmeta keys you mark as filterable. Hiring leads can pin the board to Engineering, Operations, or a specific city, and the filter persists per user so each manager opens straight to their own pipeline without redoing the filter every time.

 

Yes. SleekView honors the same edit_post and edit_published_posts capabilities the WordPress posts screen uses for the jobpost type. Users without permission to publish see the Published column but the drag handle is disabled on cards they cannot edit. Combined with the plugin's recruiter and admin role separation, the board enforces the exact same access rules as the standard admin.

 

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