From a Parked Domain to a Niche Job Board
For years, job.army sat parked, a domain I owned, showing someone else’s ads, earning pennies. The domain investing series later in this…
Job Board
This is a project series. The posts below are in order, starting from Part 1.
Why My Job Board Had to Fill Itself
The day the post type went live, job.army had a perfect empty room, a jobs archive with zero jobs. A job board’s…
Build Around the Tool You Can Actually Get
Every aggregator lives or dies by its source, and most niches offer only bad choices, scraping fragile pages or paying for feeds.…
Teaching WordPress What a Job Is
Jobs were importing, and the board immediately needed what every listings site needs, ways to slice, by department, by job type, by…
My Board Looked Full but the Jobs Were Empty
The board looked healthy from the archive page and hollow one click deeper, every job’s body was a summary paragraph and nothing…
Every Job on My Site Was a Copy
Full job announcements gave the board substance and handed it the aggregator’s curse, my pages now carried the same text as USAJOBS…
The Bug Where Saving One Page Wiped Another
The plugin had grown several settings pages, API, AI Rewrite, Branding, Sources, and users started reporting an impossible-sounding bug, save your branding,…
I Broke My Own Plugin by Cleaning It Up
A routine update, and suddenly the plugin would not activate, the fatal-error screen from the limo days back again. The debug log…
Speaking Google’s Language, and the Data I Refused to Invent
Job listings have their own structured-data type, JobPosting, and getting it right puts your jobs into rich search results, which for a…
A Job Board Has to Keep Itself Alive
A job board rots by default, every listing carries a closing date, and a board still showing last month’s expired jobs is…