Description
Create one or many resumes—complete with contact information, education & experience history, as well as a list of skills—with this incredibly easy-to-use plugin!
Be sure to check out the online demo!
Quality design & usability
Using the drag & drop resume builder, you can create your resume quickly and without limitations. Add contact information, education, experience, skills and more.
Many premium features included
- A super-intuitive resume builder with drag & drop capabilities.
- A beautiful default resume template.
- The ability to show specific parts of your resume with shortcode options.
- Contact Information
- Experience & Education
- Skills
- Very developer-friendly with loads of hooks & filters.
- And more to come…
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload
/resume-builder/
to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Navigate to the Resumes screen to create your first resume with the drag & drop builder
- Use the shortcodes provided to place your resume pieces wherever you need them (on a page, in a sidebar, etc.).
- Use a plugin like Custom Sidebars to create sidebars for additional resumes.
FAQ
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How do I create a resume?
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- After installing and activating Resume Builder, simply navigate to the Admin screen and click on the «Resumes» link in the main navigation.
- Now click the «Create a Resume» button to load up the resume builder itself.
- Add all of the contact information, education and work history, upload a photo, adjust the styling options and save.
- When you’re viewing your list of resume, hover over one of them and click the «Copy Shortcode» icon to grab the shortcode.
- Now you can place this shortcode wherever you want your resume to display.
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How can I duplicate a resume?
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Hover over the resume you want to duplicate and click the «Duplicate» icon.
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How can I trash a resume?
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Hover over the resume you want to trash and click the «Trash» icon.
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How can I permanently delete a trashed resume?
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- On the main Resumes screen, click on the «Trash» filter at the top to view your trashed items.
- Find the one you want to permanently delete and click the red «Delete» button.
- Confirm this deletion and it’s gone!
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Use a plugin like Custom Sidebars to create sidebars for additional resumes.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Resume Builder” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Resume Builder” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Resume Builder” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
3.2
- NEW: Resume Builder is back!
- FIX: Many security-related updates resolved.
- FIX: Bug fixes throughout.
3.1.1
- FIX: Quick fix for the Download button showing up even if you don’t have a download attached.
3.1
- NEW: Added the ability to include a downloadable «Attachment» with a resume. A great way to attach a PDF or anything else!
- FIX: Other various bug fixes and improvements throughout.
3.0.2.1
- FIX: Quick bug fix release, sorry about those that encountered the «get_plugin_data» bug!
3.0.2
- NEW: Added pagination to the resume builder screen if you have more than 23 resumes.
- FIX: Fixed the search box to include all resumes, even those on subsequent pages.
- FIX: Other various bug fixes and improvements throughout.
3.0.1
- NEW: All new icons! No longer loading the entire FontAwesome set for icons.
- FIX: Various bug fixes and improvements throughout.
3.0
- NEW: A brand new Resume Builder built from the ground up.
- NEW: Duplicate a resume from the builder.
- NEW: Move resumes to the Trash and then restore/delete them if needed.
- NEW: Lots of customizations per resume. Colors, sizing, etc.
- NEW: A new default resume design. Super clean and simple.
- NEW: Updated to support the latest versions of WordPress.
2.0.6
- NEW: WordPress 5.2+ Support
2.0.5
- TWEAK: Changed
<span>
tags to<div>
tags in the resume template to meet HTML5 validation requirements. - TWEAK: Dropped support for PHP 5.6 (still works for now, just not testing with it anymore).
- TWEAK: Font Awesome update.
2.0.4.2
- FIX: Fixed a PHP error when a resume has no «Experience» content.
2.0.4.1
- FIX: Fixed an issue with featured images being hidden everywhere (not just on the resume posts).
2.0.4
- NEW: Now includes full text editors for experience & education descriptions.
2.0.3
- NEW: The Resume post layout is now a two-third/one-third column split. «Intro» and «History» on the left, «Skills» on the right. More options for this coming soon.
- NEW: Added a setting to fix «tiny fonts» for themes that don’t include a default font size at the «html» level (you’ll know if you have this issue because your resume fonts look too small).
- TWEAK: Authors and Editors can now create and manage resumes.
- TWEAK: Fixed some font color issues for resumes on dark backgrounds.
2.0.2
- TWEAK: Switched FontAwesome5 from SVG to the more supported Webfonts option. This should help prevent conflicts with other plugins/themes.
- TWEAK: Now loading minified versions of all CSS/JS files for improved performance.
- TWEAK: Removed files that were no longer needed.
2.0.1
- NEW: Added responsive CSS for mobile-friendly layouts.
- FIX: Fixed an issue with the widget’s picker resume dropdown.
2.0
- NEW: Entirely new plugin, coded from the ground up.
- NEW: Complete backwards compatibility with the previous version.
- NEW: A brand new resume builder.
- NEW: A new and improved resume template.
- NEW: A new Settings page to customize the colors. More settings to come soon!
- NEW: A new resume shortcode with options to choose what you want to display.
- NEW: A new resume widget with options to choose what you want to display.
- TWEAK: Works perfectly with the latest version of WordPress. (4.9.2+)
- TWEAK: Lots of developer hooks and filters to play with if you’re into that sort of thing.
- FIX: Bugs from the previous version? Squashed.
1.1.94
- Updated FontAwesome to 4.5.0.
- Only loads TinyMCE on Resume Edit screens now (instead of everywhere).
1.1.93
- Updated «Resume Builder» code.
1.1.92
- Fixed an issue related to the upcoming WordPress 4.4 update
1.1.91
- Fixed issues related to the WordPress 4.3.x update (sorry about the delays!)
1.1.82
- Fixed an issue with multisite installations (thank you jiggaman)
1.1.81
- Fixed an issue where the single resume template wouldn’t work right with child themes.
1.1.8
- Fixed an issue where some shortcodes wouldn’t display in the correct place.
1.1.75
- Fixed the issues I broke with the last update. Sorry about that folks!
1.1.6
- Fixed some shortcode issues.
1.1.5
- FontAwesome update
1.1
- Fixed a bug (for real this time!) where some servers would mess up the sorting for some reason
1.0.8
- Fixed a bug with the Skills title not showing up
1.0.7
- Each resume gets it’s own single post page now (click View Resume to see it) — you can override this file with a theme/child theme.
- Added a few Frequently Asked Questions to help with the use of this plugin (see FAQ tab on WordPress.org)
- A few other minor updates to the styling etc.
1.0
- Initial release