The Institute for the Future of the Book is seeking a PHP and Javascript programmer experienced with WordPress development to work on the next version of CommentPress (<a href="http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/">
http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/</a>). The preferred developer will have some experience with WordPress plugin development and theming; the ideal developer will also be familiar with JQuery.<br><br>The job budget is ~$2500 (negotiable), payment-on-delivery for a complete method of integrating the existing CommentPress theme / plugin into an existing blog installation according to certain criteria (functionality appearing or not on a by-category basis), with an option on future work adding advanced features once the initial goals are met. Low-bids and hourly-rate bids with an estimate will be accepted. Solutions worked out in this project will later be migrated back into the open source CommentPress codebase, so a standard and reasonably documented solution will be important. Our problem and proposed solution is reasonably well understood, but we currently lack in-house expertise to implement it.
<br><br>Our window on the initial deliverable is now through January 15 2008: we apologize for the holiday timing, but availability to undertake the project during this period is important.<br><br>CommentPress is a custom WordPress theme / plugin that enables paragraph-level comments (among other things). The Institute for the Future of the Book is currently revising CommentPress to work with WordPress
2.3.1 and better integrate with existing blogs (at present it works best as a new install). It is an unusual take on blogging being used in some publication experiments - as such the project should come with both inherent interest and bragging rights.
<br><br>Interested developers please contact <a href="mailto:jeremydouglass@gmail.com">jeremydouglass@gmail.com</a> - include reference to your experience and previous projects.<br><br><br>