annezazu 2:30 pm on May 28, 2026

Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org

For many years, jobs.wordpress.net has been a resource for folks applying for jobs and looking for candidates. In recent weeks, various changes have been made to both the design and to WordPress.org profiles to better integrate career functionality with the aim to help foster careers in WordPress directly in WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ infrastructure. This call for testing is to help ensure that those of us working on this are making changes that properly serve those seeking candidates or looking for jobs. If you have feedback that doesn’t align perfectly with the call for testing but that relates to the overarching vision of adding more career connections, please still share it in the comments below.

What is it?

The recent updates touch two surfaces:

jobs.wordpress.net — refreshed design and a more direct path between job listings and the candidates behind them.
WordPress.org profiles — new fields for job history, key accomplishments, and a “looking for jobs” toggle, so a contributor’s profile can double as a lightweight candidate page.

The goal is for someone’s WordPress.org profile to become a meaningful representation of their professional work in the ecosystem, and for that profile to be discoverable from the jobs board.

How to Test

The flows below are suggestions to give your testing some structure, but please don’t feel obligated to follow them in order or complete all of them. The important question is whether these surfaces feel solid enough to help people find jobs and find candidates, and whether you notice any bugs, UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. gaps, or unexpected behaviors.

Suggested Testing Flows

If you don’t fall into either the applying for jobs or looking for candidate bucket, please still test by trying out just the applying for jobs functionality and reviewing both experiences in WordPress.org profiles and on the Jobs site.

Applying for jobs

Add job history

Log into WordPress.org and edit your profile by following this link https://profiles.wordpress.org/profile/edit/
Find the Jobs tab and add one or more past roles.
Save.
Confirm the entries displayed correctly on your public profile.

Of note, we’re working on adding in an importer for a CV but we also want to ensure the base flowFlow Flow is the path of screens and interactions taken to accomplish a task. It’s an experience vector. Flow is also a feeling. It’s being unselfconscious and in the zone. Flow is what happens when difficulties are removed and you are freed to pursue an activity without forming intentions. You just do it. of adding jobs works well.

Turn on “open to job opportunities”

From your profile settings, enable the “open to job opportunities” toggle.
From there, decide if you want to enable the “Show an “Open to work” frame on my GravatarGravatar Is an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software. https://gravatar.com”.
Click Save Settings.
Confirm your Gravatar changes and displays the frame.

Of note, your profile will then appear on https://jobs.wordpress.net/#candidates.

Add key accomplishments

From your profile, add one or more key accomplishments.
Save.
Confirm they appear in the expected place on your profile.
Try removing an accomplishment and confirm it’s removed.

Browse jobs on jobs.wordpress.net

Visit jobs.wordpress.net.
Browse the listings.
Try any filters.
View results and confirm they are correct.

Looking for candidates

Review how candidates appear on the Jobs site

Go to https://jobs.wordpress.net/#candidates
Confirm relevant details (current job, role) are visible at a glance.
Click on different candidates and review how job information is presented on their profiles.

Review individual profiles

Go to https://jobs.wordpress.net/#candidates
Click on different candidates available to hire and review how job information is presented on their profiles on WordPress.org.

Post a job listing (only do this if you have a real job to post)

Once more, only do this if you truly do have a job to post! Please do not post fake jobs.

Go to https://jobs.wordpress.net/post-a-job/
Fill out the information in the form for a real job you want to post.
Click Submit job.
Go to https://jobs.wordpress.net/#jobs
View the job after submission and confirm it appears as you’d expect.

Share your feedback by June 25th, 2026

Please comment on this post to share feedback. If you’re comfortable, you can also open issues in this GitHub repository directly.

Some questions to consider:

Did adding job history, accomplishments, or turning on “looking for jobs” feel intuitive? What features would you add to make it even easier?
Did your profile look the way you expected once you’d filled it out?
As someone looking for candidates, did the Jobs site surface the right people, and was it easy to understand who they are?
Did anything feel slow, confusing, or broken?
Are there pieces of the career story that feel missing: things you’d want to see your profile express, or filters you’d want when looking for candidates?

Shout out to @bor0 for reviewing this and for all of the help getting this functionality in place.

Mariusz Szatkowski 10:43 am on May 31, 2026

I just filled out my full career history (10 positions, 2001-present) and browsed the candidates listing. Here is what I ran into.

Bug: apostrophe escaping
Text with apostrophes renders with a visible backslash on the public profile. My summary says “Developers’ team pilot” but the profile shows “Developers\’ team pilot”. Looks like a double-escaping issue on the output side — the value is stored escaped and then escaped again on render.

Job title field: 50 character limit is too short
My LinkedIn title is “Full-Stack Web Developer | WordPress & LLM/AI Specialist” (57 chars). It got truncated to “LLM/AI Spec”. Titles like “Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure” already hit 48 chars. I would bump this to at least 80-100.

No way to edit prior positions
You can only Remove and re-add. If I need to fix a typo in a summary, I lose the entry and have to recreate it from scratch. The current job has an edit form — prior positions should get the same treatment.

Prior positions are not sorted chronologically
They display in insertion order, not by date. Someone filling out their history bottom-up vs. top-down gets a different result. The public profile should sort by start date descending regardless of insertion order.

No location or employment type fields
LinkedIn has location (Gdynia, Poland / Remote / EU) and type (Freelance, Contract, Full-time). These are standard fields people expect on a career profile. For someone scanning candidates, knowing whether a person is remote-first or tied to a specific city matters a lot.

Candidate cards on jobs.wordpress.net lack detail
The cards show username + current title + company. That is it. No GravatarGravatar Is an acronym for Globally Recognized Avatar. It is the avatar system managed by WordPress.com, and used within the WordPress software.
https://gravatar.com, no location, no badges. The WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ profile already has community badges (CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Contributor, PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Developer, Translation Editor) and those would be the single most useful signal for a hiring manager looking for WordPress talent. A WP core contributor with 19 years of history looks identical to a student who just signed up.

No search or filters on the candidates page
650 people in one flat list. No way to filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. by skill, technology stack, location, years of experience, or WordPress team membership. If I am looking for a WooCommerce developer in the EU timezone who has contributed to core, I have to click through every single card.

Summary field: 1000 chars works but is tight
My Equiqo role on LinkedIn lists ~30 tools and technologies plus responsibilities. Fitting that into 1000 chars required cutting. I would consider 1500-2000, or better yet, add a separate structured “Skills/Tools” field that doubles as filterable metadata on the candidates page.

What I would prioritize next (from a real user perspective):
1. Fix the escaping bug — it is visible on every profile that uses an apostrophe.
2. Add edit capability for prior positions.
3. Chronological sort on the public profile.
4. Bump the title field to 80-100 chars.
5. Add location + employment type fields.
6. Surface WordPress community badges on the candidates listing — this is the one thing that makes jobs.wordpress.net uniquely valuable compared to any other job board. Nobody else can show “this person has shipped core patches.”

Overall, the direction is right. Having career history directly on WordPress.org profiles makes the ecosystem stickier and gives long-time contributors a way to show their track record where it actually matters. The CV importer mentioned in the post will be the real unlock — typing 10 positions by hand was tedious.

Props to @bor0 and the team for shipping this.
- Boro Sitnikovski 2:00 pm on June 1, 2026
  
  Thanks for the testing results! Some great findings there.
  
  I fixed these in r24772 (sent props to @motylanogha as deserved 🙂)
  
  Bug: apostrophe escaping
  Job title field: 50 character limit is too short
  No way to edit prior positions
  Prior positions are not sorted chronologically
  Summary field: 1000 chars works but is tight
  
  I will defer these to @annezazu:
  
  The initial design didn’t have location/employment type fields, so I just want to double-check with you.
  For details on candidate cards on jobs.wordpress.net and filtering,, I believe the intention was to keep it simple, but maybe we can improve the UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. there.
  - annezazu 4:13 am on June 2, 2026
    
    Add location + employment type fields.
    
    Oohh good call. I think we should for sure add location. I’m not sure what value employment type provides or what that would entail. @motylanogha what did you have in mind there so I’m on the same page?
    
    Surface WordPress community badges on the candidates listing — this is the one thing that makes jobs.wordpress.net uniquely valuable compared to any other job board. Nobody else can show “this person has shipped coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. patches.”
    
    I hear what you’re saying here and I’m not sure how best to do this in a way that’s not visually overwhelming. For those with even more than 3-4 badges, the badges would quickly overwhelm any additional information. For now, let’s keep it simple.
    
    Thanks @bor0 for the quick fixes!
    - Mariusz Szatkowski 4:24 am on June 2, 2026
      
      @bor0 that was fast, thank you! And props back for the commit credit, much appreciated.
      
      @annezazu on employment type: what I had in mind is a simple dropdown for each job entry with options such as Freelance, Contract, Full-time, and Part-time. The WordPress ecosystem has an unusual mix of these compared to most industries. A lot of people do contract or freelance WordPress work for years and then look for a full-time role (or the other way around). When someone is browsing candidates on jobs.wordpress.net, knowing that a person has 8 years of freelance WordPress work vs. 8 years of full-time agency work tells you something real about how they work and what they are used to. It also ties into the “open to work” toggle – someone might be open to contract work but not full-time, or vice versa. LinkedIn treats this as a per-position field and it maps directly to how people think about their own career history.
      
      On badges: totally fair on visual overwhelm. What about showing just a badge count or a compact summary line like “CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. Contributor, PluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. Developer, +3 more” on the candidate card? That keeps the card clean but still differentiates a 10-year core contributor from someone who registered yesterday. The full badge list stays on the profile page where there is room for it. Even a small “X badges” pill next to the name would carry signal without taking up card real estate.
      - annezazu 5:40 pm on June 4, 2026
        
        Makes sense. Thank you! I’ll incorporate this feedback in for the dropdown. I agree that it would add helpful clarification.
        
        I’ll see if I can get a good design option for it and consider how we can. I do think the high level sentiment is right: it’s important to find a way to highlight those who contribute as part of a strong ecosystem.
Agnieszka Sikora 12:55 pm on June 4, 2026

I briefly tested the functionalities and the main thing I noticed straight away is the error banner. The banner background color is light red and the text color is white, which makes it very hard to read and it’s a big accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issue. I would consider fixing it by using more contrasting colors.
Screenshot:
https://ibb.co/YFVy5V7J
- annezazu 6:11 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Oof great catch. This is rough! Consider it noted. We’ll get it fixed.
Rafał Gazda 12:56 pm on June 4, 2026

I think the submit button could use different colors or stronger contrast, because it currently looks like it is disabled.

For the “Current location” field, users can enter any value, for example “Polandtest”. I think it would make sense to be stricter here and allow users to select only from a predefined list of countries, especially if this information may be used later for filtering by country.

Also, the field label could be clearer. It is not obvious whether we are asking for the user’s country, city, or both.
- annezazu 6:18 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Good call! Consider it on the list to fix for higher contrast. This matches this current issue too so I’ve added your comment there: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/issues/660
  
  For current location, that’s outside this call for testing. I’ll open that separately: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/issues/671
Pedro Figueroa 1:19 pm on June 4, 2026

In the Key Accomplishments section, line breaks are replaced with “nn”, and some special characters are also replaced, for example, “)” is turned into “u00b7”.
- annezazu 6:20 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Good catch! It’s on the list.
Pedro Figueroa 1:33 pm on June 4, 2026

On jobs.wordpress.net the filters seem to be alright, but there is no search form (testing instructions state to “Try any filters or search”).
- annezazu 6:21 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Updated the instructions (sorry about that). I also think we should add a search form so noting that as on the list. Thanks for testing!
Pedro Figueroa 1:35 pm on June 4, 2026

On https://jobs.wordpress.net/#candidates, the pagination states Page 1 of 73, but there are 74 pages actually (https://jobs.wordpress.net/?cp=74#candidates)
- annezazu 6:22 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  I see 74 pages now so I’m not sure what was going on there. I’ll keep an eye out to see if the problem reoccurs.
Pedro Figueroa 1:37 pm on June 4, 2026

On https://jobs.wordpress.net/#candidates, I don’t see the point of adding the message “Open to Work” to every candidate, as only open-to-work profiles are listed there. It’s too repetitive and redundant.
- annezazu 6:23 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Great point. Added to the list! Thank you for testing.
fubarpatsharp 1:48 pm on June 4, 2026

UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. Feedback for the jobs tab. The color of the buttons “Save current job” and “Add position” is misleading: they look like inactive elements (like “disabled” state) because the contrast is too low.

Some of the elements are reformatted to u2022 instead of bullet points inside the description of the entries.
- annezazu 6:24 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. Feedback for the jobs tab. The color of the buttons “Save current job” and “Add position” is misleading: they look like inactive elements (like “disabled” state) because the contrast is too low.
  
  Agreed. This was brought up before and I’ve added your feedback to that issue: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/issues/660#issuecomment-4624944443 Thank you for testing.
  
  Some of the elements are reformatted to u2022 instead of bullet points inside the description of the entries.
  
  Good bug find. It’s on the list!
fubarpatsharp 1:50 pm on June 4, 2026

Ukrainian language isn’t supported for the description of the entries.

The positioning of the “Edit” and “Delete” buttons isn’t consistent within different sections (like Jobs or Key accomplishments)
- annezazu 6:28 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Ukrainian language isn’t supported for the description of the entries.
  
  Can you explain what’s going on? I tried using Ukrainian and was able to add it, save it, and view it on the front end.
  
  The positioning of the “Edit” and “Delete” buttons isn’t consistent within different sections (like Jobs or Key accomplishments)
  
  Good call, we should be consistent there. Added to the list!
fubarpatsharp 1:58 pm on June 4, 2026

For the job listing in jobs.wordpress.net from a UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. standpoint, the filtering of the type of location and the type of project is really something that would be great to have.

How to Apply section inside the job description would be wonderful to have more visible, like a button, not a standard link.

Visually, Recent impact is highly overloaded with fonts: there are 3 typefaces in one card, which does not give any visual value.
- annezazu 6:32 pm on June 4, 2026
  
  Thanks so much for responding!
  
  For the job listing in jobs.wordpress.net from a UXUX UX is an acronym for User Experience - the way the user uses the UI. Think ‘what they are doing’ and less about how they do it. standpoint, the filtering of the type of location and the type of project is really something that would be great to have.
  
  Added to the list as an enhancement.
  
  How to Apply section inside the job description would be wonderful to have more visible, like a button, not a standard link.
  
  Good call. Added this to the list.
  
  Visually, Recent impact is highly overloaded with fonts: there are 3 typefaces in one card, which does not give any visual value.
  
  cc @yaniiliev as feedback for the work you’re doing (thank you for it).

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Help test new career functionality on WordPress.org

What is it?

How to Test

Suggested Testing Flows

Applying for jobs

Add job history

Turn on “open to job opportunities”

Add key accomplishments

Browse jobs on jobs.wordpress.net

Looking for candidates

Review how candidates appear on the Jobs site

Review individual profiles

Post a job listing (only do this if you have a real job to post)

Share your feedback by June 25th, 2026

Welcome

Weekly Meetings (Calendar)

What is it?

How to Test

Suggested Testing Flows

Applying for jobs

Add job history

Turn on “open to job opportunities”

Add key accomplishments

Browse jobs on jobs.wordpress.net

Looking for candidates

Review how candidates appear on the Jobs site

Review individual profiles

Post a job listing (only do this if you have a real job to post)

Share your feedback by June 25th, 2026

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