Why is it so hard to find an experienced wordpress developer/ designer

It is a sample website of original content with wrodpress. Up to date content at that. That is exactly what he asked for.

I need help on my other websites. Then bring them together.

I agree with xtrapunch, you can find good WP people right here on the forum. I have used several for some complex themes I am using. No complaints, they did good work for a reasonable fee.

Hello mate ,

I can help you out in your website development work , just hit me up on skype at sam.hunt0710 or send me details and your benchmark site via PM so that we can discuss the project , time frame , and about your budget for this project.

Thanks

visit this site,
simplyhired dot com
hope it'll helpfull for you to find out wordpress developer.

• http://www.freelancer.com
• http://www.odesk.com
• http://www.scriptlance.com/
• http://www.vworker.com/
• https://www.elance.com/
• http://www.guru.com/

May I ask what your budget is?

Membership area and paypal gateway are the most complex, but there's plugins (free and paid) that will handle those. The rest of the features are fairly straightforward. Most of the work will be getting it to look like you want it to.

It will take some time to get it done though. I recommend you budget for 60-80 hours of work. Find someone with 2-3 years of experience.

Hey man go to

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All one word. Her name is Andrea, and she's awesome!

You can outsource it in Odesk.com and you can find a good WP developer for your budget.

$500-600 is reasonable if the sites are all similar in nature. Once a system is developed it won't be difficult to duplicate. You might want to up the ante somewhat though, pay a bit more for the first site as an incentive. It can be a challenge to find good developers most of them are extremely busy.

Thanks for your input. You know what? I have been thinking about the functionalities of the website, but I forgot the flow of my website.

The key thing when trying to hire a freelancer is stipulating your requirements exactly.

EG:

How will the membership area function? Is it the same for all members, apart from some small personalizations, or will it be mostly unique, eg show their purchased items, a personalized action checklist etc.
Will their be a free and paid membership section, or just paid?
Are their different levels of membership?

How will the squeeze page work? Does it just sign them up to an email service? Give them basic membership? Ask for payment for premium? Offer all three? If all three, what will be the default, and whats an upsell/downsell?

How will paypal integrate? Just with the membership section, or with purchaseable items/downloads etc? Will it be on a per item or per month basis, or both? How about a prepaid topup basis?

Will all the sites work the same but have different designs? If so would you pay 50% of your budget for the 1st site (the most work by far)and 50% for the remaining 4?


Now if you where to approach a decent agency, they would ask all these questions, but at $500 you arent likely to get that, so you HAVE to do it all you self.
Also, do you know much about programing yourself?

I ask because if you do, you can learn just as much about a pottensial programmer from how they answer you questions than from their portfolio.
Ask them specifically how they would approach an aspect of what i detailed above - eg would they create products as a custom post type, and link them to user ids for displaying purchased items, or would it be better to create a new database table?
If they cant give a timely and well argued answer (either way, thats not the important part) then they arent any good.

Hope this helps

$500-600 per site is considered low priced? This is my first time engaging web designers.

You want the site designed and developed with that functionality? $500-$600 is probably pretty low to mid-range in that you can get foreigners on Odesk or what-not to do a decent job for that price.

If you were a company approaching another brick-and-mortar design and dev company for this type of work, you would be billed over 40 hours and it would cost more than $100/hour imo.

True, with that price range, it is not possible to get it done in the US.

Have you tried craigslist, I only briefly saw your post, but I know that development is very easy for Wordpress and I see ads there all the time.

Hi Sam,

If you're looking for a well experienced designers and programmers, you need to be invest for them. You won't get professional and well experienced staff if you'll limit your budget, unless you want non quality output.

i have had heaps of work done in regards to wp projects on freelancer or odesk.

I paid $4.6K for Drupal with CMS for my security business. The site will be ready next week. Not sure if it is going to be good.

But I don't wanna invest so much for WP sites. $1K is fine for me. Can you guys recommend good web designer/developer?

All you need is the right theme and some GIMP to make any site look like that.

I'd say theme is 90% of the work. If you can code then Thesis is the one.

I also use Catalyst in many of my sites.

If you are looking for a sales page/product launch page/membership site then definitely consider Profits Theme. It has them all and also options like an optin box, sales funnel, etc.

For large scale duplication I use WP Twin to clone the sites and make minor changes to header and colors.

My recommendation is to invest in the theme and then hire guys at Fiverr to code the theme according to your satisfaction. Like someone and you can hire for more regular work at $100/200 (for the entire site).

Hi Sam,
Its not that hard you know. You just have to keep track and your eyes wide open to have the best .I have been using this gys for some of my projects and they did a great Bulldozing Job,you knw, enwebdev . com . Try them and let me know whats your response.

Thanks

Take your time to write few paragraphs about theme functionality in specific details. Go out of your way to cooperate and be easy to get in touch with and respond quickly. It can save you a lot of money.

Consider dividing the work and getting different people to work on different tasks ie. one good designer, html/css coder and php coder. After that hire a good all-rounder to base other sites on your first one and you should be good. Other themes should cost less but first one would probably cost you more.

Do I need a special plugin if I want the site to be compatible with smartphones?

You will still get a good ones for that amount.Sure.

Please recommend good developer/ designer to me.

Since it is so difficult to find a good web developer/ design, I will learn the programming languages and do it myself.

Guys, pls let me know what languages I need to learn in order to build a website from scatch on wordpress platform.

With so many plugins available finding some of the best wordpress ... the millions of hard working bloggers sharing their valuable knowledge

Checkout Odesk. I've used them several times and gotten good talent. Focus on developers from Eastern Europe. They are more expensive but you get what you pay for.

Interesting thread, started with I want to FIND a developer and changed to I want to BE a developer. :|

Sam -

Let me begin by saying I understand your frustrations...really...I do. I am a full-time wordpress frontend developer(ie I don't code custom plugins, but do everything else). I also freelance on the side when I am not at my 9-5.

I understand you are not having luck on elance and other freelance sites. I get that completely. Many people on those sites are working from home and do not have the proper work ethic to complete projects they start. Or they simply bid on every project that comes their way and they are not qualified to complete it to your satisfaction fully. That ends up leaving you with half done projects and frustrated...I get it. Even as a worpdress developer I sub things out when I am too busy to do it myself, but I always work with the same dependable people. I don't use freelance job sites.

That being said I have to comment on your budget. Having a members area alone will eat up double of what your budget currently is. I don't fully know the requirements that you are looking for, but I think user Carrot, hit the nail on the head about the unknowns of a membership area. These can easily cost $1000 - $1500 to create alone.

I realize you have several sites you want created, but $500-600 is a bit low of an expectation to get unique sites built. In my experience even those who claim to have a template that they "simple want tweaked" ends up cost $800 - $900 because of the potential complexity of modifying another developers code. I have a framework I build all of my sites off of, but if you were to look at it installed before anything was coded it would just be a bunch of unformatted divs and text. It truly is a barebones framework, but the magic comes in with how quick I can get the site into wordpress.

You mentioned smartphone compatible. I believe what you actually are referring to is responsive design - see mediaqueri.es (note that is .es not .com)for several examples. This adds yet another large cost to the equation. The company I work for charges an additonal $3000 for a responsive worpdress design. There is a lot of extra time that goes into both the design and coding to make a worpdress look right on an iphone, ipad, kindle fire and a desktop.

Doing all of this from scratch yourself is probably not the answer. I have been coding websites since 1996 and I can assure you its not something you pick up in a week or two. Sure the basics of html or css can be learned "quickly" but you have to ask yourself, is spending hundreds of hours of your time learning html, css, graphic design, php, wordpress, etc...a good use of your time. Is it productive and more importantly is it profitable. I would surmise that if I needed to have my broken leg fixed that I would be better off going to a doctor than learning how to fix it myself (ok, probably a bit extreme, but you get my point).

Let me bring this all back into prospective...if you have several sites you want to have coded, I suggest you begin by looking to pay about $1300 -$1500 for the first site...then if the other sites are essentially the same feature set with minor tweaks to the design, you negotiate a lower cost for the extra sites...maybe $700 a piece. I am confident you will get a better response with those rates.

p.s. The site you mentioned in your initial post is not what I would consider to be a glamorous or flash website which is difficult to create. That theme is pretty basic in its functionality.

Hello! I can tell you there's lots of great professionals for your requirements. All you have to do is be very persistent and patience in finding them. Don't just rely on one or two hiring posts for this stuff. Try to be very resourceful. Here, in the forum are lots of professionals for the job. I hope that helped you in a way or so. Best of Luck!

Try outsourcing it on Odesk.com

It is not actually hard to find it, you can outsource in the Philippines since they have a lot of great experienced wordpress developers. Also, it is cheaper than the others..

If you are willing to pay about $800-$1200, depending on exactly how you want it done, I can get you in touch with the guy who does my more complicated sites. He is American and as good as they come. I doubt he would do it for less than that though.

Hello;

I have gone through your post regarding Wordpress developers. I am from India based IT company Enuke Software Pvt. Ltd. We have done lots of projects in this. If you need any help regarding this, please contact me on my Skype. My Skype id is gaurav.enuke

Please go through our website as well.

Thanks;
Gaurav Gaur

Hi fellow warriors,

I have encountered another problem here.

How do I deliver my info product after customer makes payment via PAYPAL. And how do I "limit" the number of downloads? Otherwise the customer will share the link and download the info product for free.


Br,
Sam