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

[Kevin Miller]

Peter-

Wordpress can do what you have described, in fact I am doing something
very similar right now for a large project.   On hiring all I can say
is you get what you pay for.   If you for example pay less than $50
hour you get what you deserve ;-)   I would also avoid anyone who
learned php as a consequence of learning wordpress :-)

Just my two cents...

Kevin Miller




On 3/25/08, Peter A. Chapman <peter at beard.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ------
>
> 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.
> >
> >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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> >Sent: 25 March 2008 17:55
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> >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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