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Employed Jobs Importer

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Description

Employed Jobs Importer pulls job listings from the public Employed feed into your WordPress site. No API key or license is required.

Employed (employed.com.br) is a Brazilian job platform for candidates. Job listings are aggregated from multiple external portals.

Features

  • Zero-config setup: choose one or more states (UF) or a specific city, then sync.
  • City picker uses official IBGE municipality names (cached locally).
  • Custom post type empljoim_job with archive at /vagas/.
  • Daily automatic sync (~04:00 site timezone) plus manual sync.
  • Google for Jobs JobPosting JSON-LD on single job pages.
  • Apply button on job pages.
  • Shortcode [employed_jobs] and styled archive/single templates.

Job data is provided by Employed. Application happens on the Employed website.

External services

This plugin connects to third-party services over HTTPS. No personal visitor data from your site is sent to these services when a visitor only browses pages. Data is sent from your WordPress server during admin configuration, manual sync, scheduled sync, or when loading the city list.

Employed job feed

This plugin uses the public Employed distribution API to import job listings into WordPress.

Service: Employed — Brazilian job platform that aggregates listings from external portals.

Used for: Downloading job listings filtered by state (UF) and optionally by city, then storing them locally as empljoim_job posts.

When data is sent: On manual sync, on the daily cron (~04:00 site timezone), and during paginated feed requests while sync runs.

Data sent: Your server IP address, a User-Agent string identifying the plugin and your site URL, an optional X-EMPLJOIM-Site header containing home_url('/'), and query parameters (estado, optional cidade, pagination). No WordPress user accounts or site visitor personal data are transmitted.

Legal: Terms of Use, Privacy Policy

IBGE municipality API

This plugin uses the public IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) API to populate the city dropdown when you choose city scope.

Service: IBGE — servicodados.ibge.gov.br

Used for: Loading official municipality names for a selected Brazilian state (UF). Results are cached locally on your site for 30 days.

When data is sent: When an administrator selects a UF in city scope, clicks Update list, or when the city list is loaded in the settings screen.

Data sent: The selected UF code in the request URL only. No personal data is sent.

Legal: Privacy Policy, About IBGE

  1. Install from Plugins Add New, or upload the zip.
  2. Activate Employed Jobs Importer.
  3. Open Employed Jobs Importer in the admin sidebar.
  4. Choose State (UF) (one or more) or City scope.
  5. For city scope: select UF, wait for the IBGE city list, pick a municipality.
  6. Click Save, then Sync now.

Imported jobs appear at /vagas/ and via the [employed_jobs] shortcode.

Do I need an API key?

No. The plugin uses Employed’s public distribution feed. Install, choose your scope, and sync.

Where does the city list come from?

From the public IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) API. Municipality names are cached on your site for 30 days.

Where does Apply send users?

To the canonical job page on employed.com.br. The plugin does not store or expose employer direct application URLs.

What is the difference between State and City scope?

State imports jobs from one or more selected UFs. City imports jobs filtered to a single municipality within one UF.

How often does sync run?

A daily cron runs around 04:00 in your site timezone. You can also sync manually from the plugin settings screen.

Does this plugin affect my theme?

No theme changes are required. The plugin registers its own post type, templates, schema markup, and shortcode.

1.0.12

  • Plugin Check: prefixed template and uninstall local variables (empljoim_).

1.0.11

  • Internal prefix updated from bji to empljoim (classes, options, hooks, CPT, taxonomies, meta keys) per WordPress.org review.
  • Test sites: settings and cities cache migrate on activation; re-sync to repopulate jobs under CPT empljoim_job.

1.0.10

  • Fix unexpected output on activation (UTF-8 BOM removed from PHP files).

1.0.9

  • Renamed to Employed Jobs Importer (employed-jobs-importer) per WordPress.org review.
  • Fixed JSON-LD escaping; documented external services (Employed + IBGE).
  • Plugin URI updated; shortcode is now [employed_jobs].

1.0.8

  • Plugin Check: translators comments placed directly above i18n calls; inline phpcs ignores for required queries.

1.0.7

  • Plugin Check: i18n translators comments, output escaping, input sanitization.
  • Tested up to WordPress 7.1; removed discouraged load_plugin_textdomain() call.

1.0.6

  • Initial WordPress.org submission.
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