Mobile-ready release: a REST surface for companion apps, member moderation and in-app account deletion, plus a large-database performance pass.
- New - Full mobile REST API for companion apps, including an app-config endpoint and viewer-relative fields on job cards.
- New - Members can report other members, and site owners can block members and suspend candidates.
- New - Members can delete their own account from within the app.
- New - Guest applications are linked to a member account automatically when someone registers with the same email address.
- New - Server-side content filtering for job listings.
- Improve - Employers can see and manage their jobs and applications before creating a company profile.
- Improve - Accessibility pass across the frontend with stronger text contrast and 40px minimum tap targets.
- Improve - Faster on large sites through indexed application lookups, a version-keyed company-list cache, collapsed application-count queries, and primed user caches that remove per-row lookups.
- Improve - Old job-view records are pruned automatically on a daily schedule.
- Fix - Fatal error "EmailJobAlert contains 2 abstract methods" when this version runs alongside an older Pro build (1.5.x). The email base class now ships safe defaults for get_default_body() and get_merge_tags(), so older Pro email classes keep loading.
- Fix - The employer dashboard no longer shows a "set up your company profile first" prompt next to a list of the employer's existing jobs.
- Fix - The public company directory reflects brand edits (tagline, industry, size, location) immediately instead of after a cache delay.
- Fix - Freshly created jobs no longer report an invalid 1970 date over the REST API.
- Fix - The single job page shows a fallback in the About This Role section when the description is empty.
- Fix - The Employers admin screen lists job authors, not only accounts that hold the employer role.
- Fix - The jobs archive no longer returns a 404 after the plugin is reactivated.
- Fix - Bookmarked jobs return their salary and remote fields.
- Fix - The setup wizard creates the Employer Registration page and its previews match the live pages.
- Fix - The admin email log loads correctly on plain permalinks.
- Fix - CSV exports are compatible with PHP 8.4 and later.
- Security - Job listing and application detail reads are scoped to their owner.
- Security - Blocked members can no longer see listings or single jobs on the server-rendered frontend.
- Dev - New release gate freezes the email base-class abstract contract so a cross-version fatal of this kind cannot ship again.
- Compat - Aligned with WP Career Board Pro 1.7.0. Install both updates together.
Lockstep with WP Career Board Pro 1.7.0 - install and test both together: https://github.com/vapvarun/wp-career-board-pro/releases/tag/v1.7.0