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

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Do you want to make a micro-job website like Fiverr with WordPress?

Micro-job websites act as a marketplace for freelancers and businesses. For each completed gig, the website owner earns a commission out of the job amount.

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

Why Make a Micro Job Website Like Fiverr?

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 2022, more than 39% of U.S. workers made money by freelancing their services online, and they contributed $1.35 trillion in annual earnings to the U.S. economy.

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.

Things You’ll Need to Make a Fiverr Like Website

There are a few things you’ll need to make a site like Fiverr 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.

Are you ready? Let’s get started.

Step 1. Setting up WordPress

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

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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 sign up. 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.

The 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 (theme designs) 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 set up 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 add-ons 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 the Appearance » Customize page to change the theme settings with a live preview.

Customizing your theme

Take your time to go through the different options, and adjust them to your liking. You can see our guide on how to use the WordPress theme customizer for more details.

Don’t forget to click 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 test every corner of your website thoroughly.

Open your website in a new tab and try to use it as a regular user. 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 ensure you and your users can receive email notifications from your website.

Sometimes WordPress sites run into email deliverability issues. You can check out our guide on how to fix WordPress’s 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 dispute resolution between freelancers and employers.

Step 7. Resources to Grow your Micro Job Website

Once your website is up and running, you will 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 60,000+ plugins available, how do you know which plugins you should install?

Don’t worry, we’ve 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.

Luckily, there is All in One SEO for WordPress, which walks you through every step of the way like an expert SEO professional.

All in One SEO website

It is the best WordPress SEO plugin on the market and allows you to optimize your micro-job website for search engines easily.

Follow the instructions in our step-by-step WordPress SEO guide for beginners to get traffic from search engines.

Once you get 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 inside your WordPress dashboard.

3. Improving 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 managed WordPress hosting or VPS hosting.

We hope this article helped you learn how to create a micro-job site in WordPress easily. You may also want to see our guide on increasing your website traffic or our comparison of the best business phone services for small businesses.

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  2. John says

    Hello,

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

    • WPBeginner Support says

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

      Admin

  3. Brad says

    Greetings!

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

    Thanks,

    Brad

  4. Tom Ti says

    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.

    • WPBeginner Support says

      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.

      Admin

  5. MOHAMMED says

    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 ?

  6. Mohamed says

    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

    • WPBeginner Support says

      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 :)

      Admin

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  9. Hassan says

    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).

  10. Manish says

    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 ?

  11. clifton says

    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??

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