-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Discuss] Recommend a WordPress consultant? Local Time: September 7, 2016 1:59 PM UTC Time: September 7, 2016 5:59 PM From: dbarr...@blazemonger.com To: discuss@blu.org
Anybody know a competent WordPress consultant? At my job, one of the non-technical departments has had terrible luck finding a WordPress consultant to keep their site up to date. They've been through FOUR consultants, and the degree of unreliability is just staggering. All the dept needs is someone to keep a WordPress site and its plugins fully patched, fix the site if it breaks, and possibly to make changes to the site's UI in the future. The scorecard so far: Consultant #1 vanished halfway through the job. Consultant #2 quit halfway through, which I suppose is slightly better than vanishing. Consultant #3 was fantastic for UI changes, but didn't want the ongoing responsibility of keeping WordPress updated with patches. So the relationship ended after the UI changes were complete. Consultant #4 was thoroughly incompetent. They changed usernames, passwords, and other data for testing and forgot to change them back for production. They took a database backup and skipped some tables. They stored Linux files in a Windows Zip file, losing their ownership and permission bits. And so on. If anyone can recommend a reliable and knowledgeable consultant, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Dan Surprisingly difficult to find competent help. I'm feeling the same with at work. Do you have any budding tech folks in your org? If somebody wants to learn they could get up to speed pretty quickly. Wordpress is a great starting point long as the youngster has somebody experienced to ping occasionally. Good luck! Eric - The one who asks BLU for help. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
