Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Jobs

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!

3 Where are the best WordPress theme designers?

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.

4 PressHarbor Comes Alive

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.

EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers

I hadn’t seen this before but it looks like a nice guide for the legal layman: EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers. Here are some links from the site:

The Overview of Legal Liability Issues FAQ briefly addresses some common legal issues that affect you as a publisher, especially situations where you may face legal claims or threats based on the information you published on your blog.

The Bloggers’ FAQ on Intellectual Property addresses issues that arise when you publish material created by others on your blog.

The Bloggers’ FAQ on Online Defamation Law provides an overview of defamation (libel) law, including a discussion of the constitutional and statutory privileges that may protect you.

The Bloggers’ FAQ on Section 230 Protections discusses a powerful federal law that gives you, as a web host, protection against legal claims arising from hosting information written by third parties.

The Bloggers’ FAQ on Privacy addresses the legal issues surrounding the privacy rights of people you blog about.

Check it out, lots of useful info there…

WordPress Community Vulnerable?

BlogSecurity, “a site dedicated to providing useful and critical security information for the blog community”, noted the following today:

BlogSecurity incrementally harvested the WordPress software version from 50 blogs; the results were frightening to say the least.

The following statement was taken from WordPress: None of these [WordPress Versions] are safe to use, except the latest in the 2.0 or 2.1 series, which are both actively maintained.

Pretty powerful stuff. Sounds to me like what is needed is a WordPress hosting service which will help you to keep your WordPress install up-to-date automatically… To ensure your WordPress security by making sure you are always running the latest version and are the 1 and not one of the 49.

Yes, that service will be coming soon… 😉

SharedReviews.com launches

Prfiles 2007 05 15 526492 Shared Reviews LogoYes, I have been hibernating. Working on a couple of new projects and have ignored my blog…

Dusting it off today to make sure you know about my good friend Peter Ejtel’s new startup. Yesterday, SharedReviews.com was made public. From their press release:

Beginning early next month, the site will accept reviews from signed up contributors on any retail product, ranging from baby cribs to cell phones and everything in between. Individuals can visit SharedReviews.com now and sign up to participate in the site’s beta contributor release, earning direct cash incentives for the experiences that they submit.

Their site sums it up as “You share your review, we share our revenue.”

Cheers to Peter and Frank and the rest of their team! Best wishes for a great success!