Integrate Softgarden in WordPress

Anyone who has advertised vacancies and reviewed and evaluated the submitted applications knows that these steps are a complex task. The balancing act between careful review, processing, and deadlines can often be challenging. To make this process simpler and more efficient for you as an employer, you can use recruiting software Softgarden Integrate into your WordPress site or link to it.

Following the motto „All roads lead to Rome“, there are also various possible solutions for this – depending on your personal requirements:

• iFrame/JavaScript widget embedding
• Using a plugin
• API/Feed Connectivity

Preparation

Before you can get started, ensure you have the necessary admin access and that the settings in your cookie banner comply with privacy policies. You need to decide whether job advertisements should be embedded via iFrame or created as separate posts in WordPress. The latter offers you, as the website operator, more advantages in terms of SEO.

iFrame – the quick solution

The simplest and quickest way is to embed your career portal into your WordPress via iFrame. The disadvantage here, however, is that your individual job advertisements cannot be found by search engines on your website, as everything happens only within the iFrame and thus on Softgarden's servers. Furthermore, the possibilities for design customisation are often limited.

Here's how you proceed:

• As an alternative, you can use the following: Log in to WordPress and create a new page: „Page > Create“, with the title e.g. „Career“ and the permalink Careers.
• Add the general information for the careers page – images, text, etc.
• Log in to Softgarden, go to „Settings > Customisation > Job portal“. Copy your iFrame code here.
• Add a „Custom HTML“ block to your career page in WordPress. Here, you can paste the iFrame code you copied from Softgarden.
• Test the page, publish it and add it to the menu under „Careers“ or similar.

2) WordPress Plugin – Convenient Integration

A more comfortable option is to use a third-party plugin to synchronise the jobs on your website. Although these plugins come at a cost, they are a worthwhile investment as they offer many useful features that the iFrame solution does not provide.

The jobs are regularly and automatically synchronised here from Softgarden and created in WordPress as actual individual job pages. You can completely determine the structure and design of the careers page, the job listing, and the individual job pages yourself.

Benefits of integration using our plugin as an example Easy Job Sync:

1. Fast setup without programming knowledge
2. No reliance on external providers
3. Better SEO for your jobs
4. Extensive filter and search options in job listings
5. A bespoke design tailored to your specifications
6. No subscription model – buy once, lifetime updates included

Here’s how to set it up:

• Buy the plugin for a one-off price from our online shop, or try it out first with the free trial version. You’ll receive the plugin and a licence key to activate it in WordPress
• Go to the plugin settings, then to „Providers“, and add a Softgarden provider using „Add new Provider“. Here you can then enter your Softgarden API Client ID. How to obtain this is explained on the Softgarden website: https://dev.softgarden.de/career-websites-api/. Store the provider settings
• You can now transfer all jobs with the „Synchronize Provider Jobs“ button.
• On your pages, you can use various shortcodes to add job listings, filters, radius search and more. All the options for setting this up are in our Documentation described.
• If you want to customise the styling and HTML of the listing and the individual job page, you can do so in the plugin settings under „Listing Template“, „Details Template“ and „Settings“.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need help setting it up.

3) API-/Feed-based integration in WordPress

Unlike a ready-made plugin, API-based integration allows you to tailor the connection entirely to your own requirements. This option requires technical expertise and more time, but offers maximum flexibility. You can create job advertisements as custom post types, define the data structure individually and optimally manage your SEO measures.

Here’s how it works:

• First, take a look at Softgarden’s documentation: https://dev.softgarden.de/career-websites-api/
• The „Authentication“ section of the documentation explains how to obtain your API credentials.
• Using the API access credentials, you can program your own synchronisation logic in your theme or a custom plugin
• Create a custom post type for job vacancies in WordPress that can be populated automatically.
• Set up a cron job so that new listings are imported automatically at set intervals.
• Select which fields you want to include (e.g. job title, description, advert ID, application link).
• Next, design your templates in line with your corporate identity
• Update your XML sitemap to increase search engine visibility.
• Link your new careers section on the homepage or in the main menu

Conclusion

If you want to integrate Softgarden into your WordPress quickly and easily, we recommend integration via iFrame. This variant is realised in a few steps, but offers little room for customisation or SEO.

If you enjoy programming and are willing to invest time, then the API/feed-based solution the right choice. This will require your technical know-how, but offers you a lot of flexibility and full control over structure, design, and optimisation.

If, on the other hand, you place particular value on customisation and search engine optimisation, then this is Easy Job Sync WordPress Plugin the ideal solution. It saves you a lot of time, allows for individual design according to your preferences, and simultaneously increases the visibility of your job advertisements in search engines.