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I want to create an online hub for our community with a focus on the events/activities calendar, a real estate component with ad sales for homes for sale, FSBO, rentals, wanted section and open houses, with corresponding maps, a homeowners forum, ecommerce store/affiliate links, news blog, gallery, contact page, amenities, government, vendor and club info pages.
I have some familiarity with web design and will need the ability to update my website with current events, info, ads, etc. Timeline is a Jan 1 launch. Budget is negotiable. No need for copy or images.
Suggestions on finding the right developer would be appreciated. Finding competent, trustworthy developers is proving more difficult than I imagined.
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Where are you located?
I’m US based. Happy to have a call and discuss it in more detail. DM me if you’re interested.
The fact that skills are important, something equally important is to look for a good person to work with. I would like to discuss the project details with and then suggest you what to use for building your website. Your requirements are dynamic and therefore I would recommend a custom built from scratch. Let me know if we can connect and discuss the project in detail. Thank you.
Hey mate I’m interested in it.
Right … so what you want is a farcebook clone?
Hope you have the budget to match.
That is a vast specification. Prioritize?
If you aren’t on a very tight budget, I’d look into codeable.io. Fiverr and Upwork are also popular but they can be a bit of a hit or miss, so I’d avoid them.
This also sounds like the type of project I’d be interested in taking. Feel free to shoot me a DM if you’d like to discuss this further and perhaps hop on a call.
$15-$20k ping me if you’re in Australia
Maybe use meetup.com?
50k
What is your community? Do you have established club members that will be the primary users of this website?
Check your local chamber of commerce. But that is a major project.
I hate to say it but you almost need to be a WP dev in order to hire a WP dev. And I’m talking about a real dev that knows how to code. Not the kind that just uses a theme and uploads some assets.
If you’re not a dev or the dev you hire won’t take payment upon delivery, then you’re better off hiring a local agency.
If you still have your heart set on hiring a freelance dev, I can send you a test to have them complete. It’ll take them about 2 hours and will determine if they know HTML, CSS, PHP, and WP.
Find some local agencies, see which ones will fulfil your needs?
All you’re going to get on here are people around the world who you’re going to have difficulty contacting when you need them, and a bunch of guys in India who will sell you crap for $300.
Go to someone local who you can communicate with regularly, and are comfortable coding what you want. It won’t be cheap. though.
This project will fail horribly for everyone involved
From my experience, two things I will check first when looking for a high quality WP dev are about their tools and how they manage updates.
Nowadays, tools like AI, ACF, code snippets, ** builders… make things so much easier that almost everyone calls themselves a developer. If a person can code well, he will avoid those tools because of responsibility of an ethical developer. He knows the risk of trading performance and security for convenience.
And a quality dev is not just about coding. How he deliveries updates (both code and database) is also a critical criteria. On a live interview, if one doesn’t know how version control works or doesn’t know the “code up, database down” rule, he is not a good dev.