[wp-pro] Need someone to upgrade multiple WP sites

[David Coveney]

Thanks Christopher,

 

It's also not just the lack of information that riled me, but the lack of
respect.

 

Imagine trying to find a lawyer in a similar way.  "Need a contract for our
new recruits.  Note: Simple, yeah?  Get back to me with a price and when you
can knock it up."

 

I suppose a lot of people aren't to know what is and isn't important in
specifying overall requirements to a developer or designer, but they can at
least treat us seriously.

 

Probably doesn't help that developers have a habit of being eager to please
and wanting to help.  Brings out the worst in the people that call on us,
sometimes.


Regards,


Dave

 

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From: Christopher Conlan [mailto:kaboodleventures at gmail.com] 
Sent: 25 March 2008 18:16
To: David Coveney; wp-pro at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-pro] Need someone to upgrade multiple WP sites

 

Couldn't agree more David -- I'd love to help you out on that one.  The best
part for the "consumer" is that the more information they can give us,
regardless of whether it's a NEW site or a touch up job, the less expensive
it's going to be for them, and the faster they'll receive the deliverables
exactly how they want them -- plus, we might actually have a better way of
doing it since we tend to live, breathe, and would if we could eat WP (I
hear a new plug-in will be availble soon for that though based upon
MySQLunch!).

 

Christopher Conlan

Kaboodle Ventures

www.web30technology.com <http://www.web30technology.com/> 



 

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:11 AM, David Coveney <david at interconnectit.com>
wrote:

I'm sorry but it's not 'simple enough'.

 

What plugins, what WordPress versions (from and to), what themes, and so on.

 

All I could quote for this is our standard hourly rate.  You never know -
might take five hours, might take fifty.

 

I've been debating writing a blog post (our blog is
http://www.liverpoolwebdesigner.com <http://www.liverpoolwebdesigner.com/> )
on the subject of how to hire a WordPress professional.  I have a feeling
that many out there are looking for simple solutions to what are often
complicated problems.  Messages like this which state things like "simple
enough" and "knock it out" suggest that this is a straightforward and easy
thing to do based on almost no information.  Real professionals don't just
"knock out" their work.  In something like this a real pro would be looking
at the versions involved, checking or advising on what issues there (do they
need to stage the upgrades, for example), taking database and server
snapshots and so on.  Then there's the issue of malformed content (in
particular special characters), which can get messed up during an upgrade -
will you want this to be corrected or are you happy to search through and
find these yourself?

 

Sorry to come across all tetchy.


Dave Coveney

Interconnect IT

 

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From: wp-pro-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-pro-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Ink Trails
Sent: 25 March 2008 17:55
To: wp-pro at lists.automattic.com
Subject: [wp-pro] Need someone to upgrade multiple WP sites

 

Need someone to upgrade multiple WP sites. Note: I need for all the plug-ins
to function properly. Simple enough, right? Get back to me with price per
and how soon you'd be able to knock it out.

Thanks,

Jason


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