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Hiring a Custom Theme Designer
Hi All:
This post is a follow up post from "What do I do? CSS and WP Theme issues*" I was trying to integrate a Vanilla forum into my WP site using Vanilla 2.1b. Since I am slow as a snail in css and never wrote a custom theme I attempted to hire a theme/WP developer. My theme changes were pretty simple and I even took the time to have a creative brief and layout for him. I gave him the URL for the Vanilla Theme Documentation. What he did was ignore everything and CSS Vanilla Core. I opened a new discussion based on the suggestion from the community. How do you hire the right person? My second largest question how do move the edits to a custom CSS file?
PS Anyone want to get paid to do this??
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Oh ya after paying him for the last two weeks he has finally come to the conclusion that he needed to write a custom theme file. (I told him this already 10 times!) He has wasted my time and money, I'm pretty sure I need to stop the project but I dont feel I should have to pay him....any comments?
I would tell him that you are unsatisfied with his work product and don't wish to work with him in the future.
Polite, but to the point. There is no reason to work with someone that makes you feel uncomfortable.
I am happy to help you move your modded files into a custom theme file.
PM me with details.
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You got it. I let him go but was nice about it.
What are the odds of two people using the same avatar picture.
slim - you might think.
look at @kirkpa and look at @jens1seo
got me confused that jens1seo is using the same avatar as kirkpa
same penguin photo.
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Well, if you need to write a custom theme file, I will TRY to help you (doesn't guarantee that I will be an expert) but let me ask you this: What version of Vanilla and what theme?
Have you ever created a custom theme before?
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I know CSS and if I know CSS, how hard will it be to build a CSS file
Not to be pessimistic, but "building a theme" and "building a CSS file" are two very different tasks.
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When we need to hire someone to do work for us, we specify several parameters:
The above rules are strict enough to scare off many time wasters. Of course, they can be relaxed as needed, but they work quite well as an initial filter.
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Before you offer your services as a theme designer (even unpaid), it would be a good idea for you to build your own theme, and then to display that as proof of your competence.
The answer to 'how hard can it be?', by the way, is anywhere from 'not very', where you are just changing a few colours', to 'head spinningly' if you are trying to implement a range of features and plugins.
It's ok, he saw someone fly an airplane once. They just sat there most of the time looking out the window, how hard could that be?
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