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Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Jobs:

I am proud to announce the beta version of Wordpress Jobs.

The site is intended to be used as the primary location for employers looking for professional Wordpress help to post their needs and for Wordpress professionals to find, apply for and obtain jobs in WordPress. We have focussed on aesthetics, ease of use and consolidation of resources in developing WordPress Jobs. Feeds are available for every job category to make it easy for job seekers to find and apply for the right jobs as quickly as possible. We will also advertise jobs from Wordpress Jobs on weblogtoolscollection to increase exposure.

Check out WordPress Jobs if you’ve got some WP skills and are looking to put them to work!

Now that PressHarbor is getting off the ground, we’re getting a lot of inquiries about design shops or designers for WordPress themes - where are the good ones? Just received another email:

Can you suggest a very cost-effective, but a good design shop - an individual is preferred - to make some customizations to our site?

How about it - anyone know of a good designer/small shop that can create beautiful WordPress themes but won’t break the bank of the small businesses and individuals who need their services?

Please post your recommendations in the comments or trackback a blog post on the custom WordPress theme designers you recommend.

If you’re reading this post, then you know that 2 things are now true:

1. This blog has now been migrated to WordPress from our BlogHarbor platform.
2. PressHarbor is alive.

The second point is the most exciting. We’ve been working on building a new platform for Wordpress blog hosting that offers:

• Wordpress preinstalled
• Automatic updates of Wordpress to the latest version

PressHarbor will also offer such features as Pro-blogger level Akismet spam protection included, which would normally cost $55/year if you purchased your own Akismet pro-blogger key. We’ve also been able to solve some key migration issues for our BlogHarbor and other Blogware users who want to move to WordPress, such as preservation and redirection of your current links to preserve and enhance your Google ranking, not to mention making the transition easier as your readers’ bookmarks will continue to function, redirecting them seamlessly to the new location of your pages. A lot of what we’ve learned will help us migrate any user from other blog platforms to our PressHarbor Wordpress service, including and especially Typepad and MovableType bloggers.

So I am the guinea pig - somebody had to go first. And I do have to say, the transition was quite smooth… All of the original articles, comments, and trackbacks were migrated, and their URLs redirect cleanly to the new URLs with the right codes to let Google know that the new location is permanent…

Looking good so far here on July 1. PressHarbor is getting set to sail.