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

[Peter A. Chapman]

I'd find information about hiring WordPress professionals useful.  

I first learned about WordPress about 20 days ago.  Since that time, I've asked lots of people lots of questions about WordPress' capabilities and ability to be enhanced.  Nearly every answer I've received tells me that through the power of plug-ins, scripts and other programs, anything is possible -- content can be entered into WordPress seven ways of Sunday and content can be automatically exported in an infinite number of ways.  What I can't get a handle on is how big of an army is required, at what potential cost, and on what kind of a time table.  To my surprise, everybody I've talked to gives me the impression that I'm the first electronic newsletter publisher with existing products that's ever contemplated using WordPress to decentralize and streamline our authoring and editorial processes.  

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At 02:11 PM 3/25/2008, David Coveney wrote:
>I’m sorry but it’s not ‘simple enough’.
> 
>What plugins, what WordPress versions (from and to), what themes, and so on.
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>All I could quote for this is our standard hourly rate.  You never know – might take five hours, might take fifty.
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>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?
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>Sorry to come across all tetchy.
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>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
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>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.
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>Thanks,
>
>Jason
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