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The $15 WordPress gig

Three weeks ago I received the following message on LinkedIn: Hello, I'm looking for someone who could customize a WordPress plugin we bought. It's a car reservation system, we need to change the pricing model and add a few extra SQL tables that would operate with the plugin. The contact is a manager of some small agency, in his 50s, so I replied with my usual template for people who get in touch with me as I do dozens of WordPress things here and don't look like scam - that I can forward that to my peers and share it in the relevant… Continue Reading
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On WordPress and Working Smarter

Today I found two brilliant posts that I would like to share with as many people as possible. While everyone is focused on what the market says or what seems natural, occasionally there are many obvious factors that are left unnoticed and could affect our entire life and career. The first article that I've read was Morten's "WordPress is Not Easy and That's OK". It covers several perspectives from people outside of the WordPress community who have heard how easy it is to use the "5-minute install" and build everything with themes and plugins, and tried that on their own.… Continue Reading
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The Low Barrier of WordPress

Coen Jacobs wrote a post recently, asking Is WordPress Too Easy? I was about to follow-up on that, but due to time constraints, my thoughts flew away, but I felt the urge to do a part 2 on that series, with some other thoughts. What is WordPress? No, I'm not going to define that as most people are already in the industry. But I keep getting various mixed signals from other people around me. The casual one that you've already heard is: "but WordPress is just a simple blogging platform". I'm fine with that and I have a few canned… Continue Reading
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On WordPress and Business

Recently one of the trendy discussions online has been the involvement of business tracks in WordCamp programs.  I'm one of the supporters of that for various reasons. The Key Difference First off, the "business" is one of the key differences between WordPress and various platforms or systems available for the public at the moment. Over the past 10 years I have been involved in projects and teams in platforms in languages such as Delphi, C#, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, and eRPs, CRMs, CMS, frameworks and many more requiring integration or development for customers. Last time I had the freelance epiphany… Continue Reading