=== Simple Social Images for WP Job Manager ===
Contributors: highrisedigital, wpmarkuk, keithdevon
Tags: social sharing, jobs, open graph, social images, twitter, facebook, linkedin
Requires at least: 6.0.1
Tested up to: 6.0.1
Stable tag: 1.0
Requires PHP: 7.4
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Automatically generate beautiful and branded social sharing images for your WP Job Manager jobs.

== Description ==

Simple Social Images for WP Job Manager automates the creation of branded, beautiful social images for your WP Job Manager jobs. 

⚠️**Important** - _for this plugin to work, it requires a paid Simple Social Images license in order to generate the images. [Purchase a license here](https://simplesocialimages.com)_. It also requires you to have the [WP Job Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-job-manager/) plugin installed and activated.

When you share a job URL from your website on social networks, they will look for an image to display. Sometimes no image can be found. Sometimes the image is generic, irrelevant, unprofessional or just embarrasing!

Custom sharing images **increase engagement** when you, or others, share your jobs online. 

To solve this, many WP Job Manager users will create their own images and upload them to WordPress. But this can be very time consuming to produce (e.g. using Canva) and difficult to maintain consistency.

With Simple Social Images for WP Job Manager you can automate this process, getting the engagement that you want while saving 50+ hours per year.

How it works:

1. Choose your template and customise it to your brand
2. Create and publish a job
3. The plugin will create an image and save it to your WordPress Media Library
4. The plugin will set the og:image tag to the URL of the custom image
5. Share your job online and see your custom sharing image

The images that are generated can be customised to suit your brand. You have control over:

* Template choice
* Fonts
* Text sizes
* Colors
* Company logo and size
* Background images

Our simple preview tool allows you to preview what you images will look like in the plugins settings page.

== Installation ==

1. Log into WordPress
2. Go to Plugins, Add New
3. Search for Simple Social Images for WP Job Manager
4. Click Install Now, then Activate
5. Go to Job Listings, the Simple Social Images
6. Enter your license key for [Simple Social Images](https://simplesocialimages.com) and complete the settings to setup your images.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this plugin require a paid license? =

Yes, the plugin requires a paid license for [Simple Social Images](https://simplesocialimages.com). This gives access to the API to generate the images for each job.

= Will all the generated images not look the same? =

No, you can select which template you want to use, and then each image that is generated can have a random background image (which you can also provide), or it will use the featured image of the job itself as the background, and will also include the job title, salary and location.

= How do I test which image is used by the social networks? =

For LinkedIn:

1. Open the LinkedIn Post Inspector
2. Enter the URL of a job from your website
3. Click ‘Inspect’

You can also test how your jobs look on [Facebook](https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/) and [Twitter](https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator).

== Screenshots ==

1. Template 1 preview
2. Template 2 preview
3. Template 3 preview
4. Template 4 preview
5. Template 5 preview
6. The Simple Social Images for WP Job Manager settings screen
7. The Simple Social Images for WP Job Manager meta box, used to generate the images for each job

== Changelog ==

= 0.1 =
* Initial plugin launch.

= 1.0 =
* Plugin added to the WP.org repo

== Upgrade Notice ==

Updates provided via WordPress.org.