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How to Create a Micro-Job Website Like Fiverr with WordPress

Last updated on February 7th, 2019 by Editorial Staff
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How to Create a Micro-Job Website Like Fiverr with WordPress

Recently one of our readers asked if it was possible to create a Fiverr like website using WordPress?

Making a niche micro-job website has become a popular online business idea because it is easy to start, quick to monetize, and has low overhead.

A recent study showed that in 2018, more than 36% of US workers made money by freelancing their services online. That’s 1 in every 3 working adults in the United States.

Online job marketplaces like Upwork and Fiverr help connect those freelancers to employers for a small fee. However, they are not alone, there are many other micro-job websites built to cater to specific niches and industries.

In this article, we will show you how to easily create a micro-job website like Fiverr with WordPress without any coding knowledge.

Creatng a fiverr like micro-job site with WordPress

Things You’ll Need to Make a Fiverr Like Website

There are a few things you’ll need to start your own Fiverr clone and a micro-job website with WordPress.

First, you need to make sure that you are using the right platform. To build a micro-job website, you will need a self-hosted WordPress.org website (see: WordPress.com vs WordPress.org for more details).

To start a WordPress site, you will need the following things:

  • A domain name (This will be your website’s address. For example, wpbeginner.com)
  • A WordPress hosting account (This is where your website’s files are stored)
  • SSL Certificate (You need this to accept online payments)
  • A Micro-Job addon and theme

The set up will take less than 40 minutes, and we will walk you through every step.

Here are the steps you’ll take to make a job marketplace like Fiverr with WordPress.

  1. Setting up WordPress
  2. Setting up a micro-job website with WordPress
  3. Selecting payment methods and packages
  4. Changing branding and website content
  5. Testing your micro-job website
  6. Managing your micro-job website
  7. Resources to grow your micro-job website

Are you ready? Let’s get started.

Step 1. Setting up WordPress

To install WordPress, you need a WordPress hosting account domain name, and a SSL certificate.

Normally a domain name costs $14.99 / year, SSL certificate $69.99 / year, and WordPress hosting would cost you $7.99 / month.

This sounds like a lot of money if you are just starting out.

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Once you have purchased hosting, head over to our guide on how to make a website for step by step setup instructions.

Bluehost will automatically install WordPress for you when you signup. You can log in to your WordPress admin dashboard directly from your hosting account.

WordPress admin dashboard

Step 2. Setting up a Micro-Job Website with WordPress

Now that you have installed WordPress, it is time to add micro-job engine functionality to your WordPress site using a micro jobs theme.

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Microjob Engine theme. For detailed instructions, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress theme.

Microjob Engine is an app-theme, which means that it is designed to be an app with complete backend and front-end functionality.

Once you have activated the theme, you will be redirected to the theme’s welcome page. On this screen, you will need to enter your license key which you can find under your EngineThemes’ account.

Enter license key

Next, you need to click on the ‘Install Demo’ button to import and set up a demo website. This will allow you to quickly set up the website to look exactly like the demo. You can then replace the content with your own.

MicrojobEngine comes with two skins to choose from. Once you have imported the demo data, you can select one of the skins to use on your website.

Select skin for your micro-job site

Your website is now setup just like the theme demo. You can visit your website to see it in action.

Job marketplace like Fiverr Demo

Step 3. Selecting Payment Methods and Packages

Microjob Engine works with PayPal and 2Checkout out of the box. You can purchase addons to add other credit card payment gateways like Authorize.net, PayU, PayStack, and Stripe.

You can setup your preferred payment gateway by visiting the Engine Settings » Payment Gateways page in your WordPress admin area.

Set up payment metods

Packages Explained

Microjob engine allows you to earn money in two ways:

  1. You can get a commission when a job is finished
  2. You can sell packages allowing users to submit gigs for a certain amount.

Setting a payment barrier right from the beginning may prevent some users from signing up, but it will also help keep the spam away.

On the other hand, enabling free job posting will help you attract more freelancers to your website.

You can always change the settings once your website starts getting enough attention from both freelancers and employers.

To set up these options, you need to visit the Engine Settings » Theme Options page and click on the Payment Type tab.

Choose payment model

From here, you can enable or disable free posting. If you disable free posting, then you can add packages that freelancers can purchase to submit their offers.

Step 4. Changing Branding and Website Content

Next, you would want to change the branding and content to make it your own. You can do this by going to Appearance » Customize page where you can change the theme settings with a live preview.

Customizing your theme

Take your time and go through the different options and adjust them to your liking. Don’t forget to click on the Publish button at the top to save your changes before exiting the customizer.

Step 5. Testing Your Micro-Job Website

Microjob Engine Preview

Once you have set up your theme, it is time to thoroughly test every corner of your website.

Open your website in a new tab and try to use it as regular users. Start by posting an ad as a freelancer.

After that, browse your website as an employer by testing job listings and hiring a service.

Each user on your website whether freelancer or employer will get their own profile page. Freelancer profiles will show their details, bio, recent gigs, and ratings.

User profiles

Each user will also be able to manage their account from a custom dashboard. This is where all their chats, messages, and jobs are displayed.

User account dashboard

You may also want to make sure that you and your users can receive email notifications from your website. Sometimes WordPress sites run into an email deliverability issues. You can check out our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.

Step 6. Managing Your Micro-Job Site

Even though your users (both freelancers and employers) wouldn’t need to visit the WordPress admin area, you will still manage all aspects of your website from the WordPress dashboard.

You can see all orders placed on your micro-job site by visiting Engine Settings » Orders.

view all orders

It also comes with a review system for completed jobs.

You can also see finished jobs that need to be verified by visiting Jobs Verification page. From here you can approve, keep pending, decline, or verify a job status.

Once approved, the freelancer will be able to withdraw their money.

Managing job verification

To view all withdrawal activity, you need to visit Engine Settings » Money Withdrawl tab. On this page, you will see a list of freelancers who have withdrawn their earnings.

Money Widthdrawal

You can manage all site functions from the admin area of your WordPress site, and you can even peek into conversations between your users.

This helps make sure that freelancers are not insisting on clients to use other unverifiable payment methods. It also helps during the dispute resolution between freelancers and employers.

Step 7. Resources to Grow your Micro Job Website

Once your website is up and running, you would need to learn how to grow it and make more money. Let’s look at some of the resources that you can use to achieve these goals.

1. Extend your website

Using WordPress gives you access to thousands of free and paid plugins. These plugins are like apps for your WordPress website.

You can use plugins to add new features to your job marketplace and grow your business.

However with over 55,000+ plugins available, how do you know which plugins you should install?

Don’t worry we got you covered. See our expert-pick of the essential WordPress plugins that every WordPress site should use.

2. Marketing your job marketplace

Next, you will need to learn a little bit of SEO. Follow the instructions in our step by step WordPress SEO guide for beginners to get traffic from search engines.

Once you start getting some traffic, you need to know where your users are coming from and what they do on your site. This information helps you make informed decisions about growing your business.

This is where you’ll need MonsterInsights. It helps you install Google Analytics on your website. Most importantly it shows easy to understand traffic reports right inside your WordPress dashboard.

3. Performance

Microjob Engine is a powerful app theme with tons of cool features. However, as your website grows, it can be quite heavy on your servers.

To make sure your site performs well, you need to optimize WordPress performance and speed.

As your site grows you will run out of shared hosting resources. In that case, you will need to upgrade to a managed WordPress hosting or VPS hosting.

We hope this article helped you learn how to easily create a micro-job site in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to increase your website traffic.

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28 Comments

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  1. John says:
    Nov 6, 2020 at 4:08 pm

    Hello,

    Thank you for the great information. Is it possible for freelancers to create their own accounts like in fiverr?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 9, 2020 at 11:57 am

      Yes, you would want to take a look under step 5 for where we cover the profiles.

      Reply
  2. Brad says:
    Feb 11, 2020 at 12:15 am

    Greetings!

    Is there a micro-job wordpress plugin? Instead of theme? I do not want to change my current theme.

    Thanks,

    Brad

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 11, 2020 at 10:28 am

      Sadly, for the moment we do not have a specific plugin we would recommend

      Reply
  3. Tom Ti says:
    Jul 29, 2019 at 9:20 am

    First of all you are a great blessing for many people. Thank you for well written articles.
    I am trying to explore how we can upload bulk listings of emplyee and employers from back end of wordpress site in an emty wordpress site?
    Where we can download demo database bulk listing to fill in the site in order to attract audiance?
    You may write a post about How to Populate audiance on an empty wordpress job monster site?. Thanks in Advance
    Please help me.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jul 29, 2019 at 11:51 am

      It would depend on what plugin/method you are using to set up the job site. If you reach out to your plugin’s support they should be able to let you know what is available.

      Reply
  4. MOHAMMED says:
    Jun 7, 2019 at 4:23 am

    Hello
    I have website using microjobengin and have a problem in new mjob approval message, the notifications email not send to buyer when admin approve the New mjob
    Can you fix this problem ?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jun 7, 2019 at 10:16 am

      If you haven’t already, you would want to have your WordPress site send emails using SMTP: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-send-email-in-wordpress-using-the-gmail-smtp-server/

      Reply
      • MOHAMMED says:
        Jun 12, 2019 at 6:10 pm

        Already I used SMTP plugin, and the site send emails but not all emails
        I told one developer to check the issue he told me there are no function – coding for new mjob approval mailing
        Note: I can find the template of new mjob approval message in settings page, but not work

        Reply
        • WPBeginner Support says:
          Jun 14, 2019 at 10:06 am

          You would likely need to reach out to the plugin’s support for them to take a look at possible issues.

  5. Mohamed says:
    Mar 22, 2019 at 10:45 am

    I was very much interested in this theme. But I’ve come across some very bad review elsewhere. Many even claim that EngineThemes are actually out of business. Any idea about their status?
    Thank you for your help

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 25, 2019 at 2:00 pm

      Unless I hear otherwise, we have not been informed of anything at the moment. If you reach out to them directly they should let you know their status :)

      Reply
  6. Dogood says:
    Feb 10, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    I must confess that you guys are great. Not much to say for now. I’ll just check it out. Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 11, 2019 at 4:19 pm

      Thank you :)

      Reply
  7. Raakesh says:
    Feb 8, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    Hello,

    This is an awesome post! Thanks for inspiring with rocking articles. However, I’ve requested you to input some ideas with generating unique articles and blog visitors love to read the articles. As a beginner blogger, I’ve to hire some article writers for my blog. It is really difficult for me too. Please help me with a better resolution.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 11, 2019 at 2:28 pm

      Thank you for your article recommendation, we will certainly take a look into it.

      Reply
  8. Hassan says:
    Nov 8, 2018 at 9:40 pm

    I need a website like fiverr where the content that is posted goes to registered users whome i will approve.
    So i can post the job and people who are onboard can voutch if they can do the job. When the work is complete they can upload it on the website which also gets downloded to my pc folderwise with the workers name and details (as in this work is done against the this job which was posted serial number or job posting by me)

    Job posting for admin panel should be easy( like posting to an online fourm with drop downmenus for catogories).

    Reply
  9. Manish says:
    Sep 16, 2018 at 12:34 am

    How can I develop a website like or better than freelancing sites Upwork.com and freelancer.in with new ideas and features ? How can I develop it with wordpress ? Which themes and plugins I have to use ?

    Reply
  10. Bello Wee says:
    May 6, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    Any idea as to how to include one-on-one tutoring in your microjob website?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 6, 2018 at 8:35 pm

      Hi Bello Wee,

      Please see our article on best WordPress LMS plugins to see if one of them fits your requirements.

      Reply
  11. mo says:
    Apr 13, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    Thanks for the theme idea.how do i customize the “post a MJob” button on the header ?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Apr 15, 2018 at 9:51 pm

      Please see the theme documentation or ask theme developer for support.

      Reply
  12. clifton says:
    Apr 7, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    hello there usually on fiver they keep the money after 14 days after then you can withdraw….how do they do that? whats services do they use after someone makes a purchase from you … why don’t i get the money right away..what system do they use??

    Reply
  13. Tony says:
    Mar 7, 2018 at 4:31 am

    Any advice how to covert the site into a non native App?

    Reply
  14. Chola says:
    Mar 5, 2018 at 9:34 pm

    Great post. Thank you! Can you please make a buuzzfeed like website post

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 pm

      Hi,

      Thanks, we will try to cover that in a future article.

      Reply
  15. Sujeet says:
    Feb 22, 2018 at 7:44 am

    Hi

    But there is only seller option in this theme maybe
    is there buyer option too ?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 22, 2018 at 11:36 am

      Hi Sujeet,

      Both Service providers and employers can create account, sell or buy services, pay and withdraw their earnings.

      Reply

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