Beginner WordPress tips:

1. WP Beginner

2. WP TV

Advanced WordPress tips:

1. WP Engineer

3. WP Recipes

Useful WordPress Tips Websites from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites

According to oDesk, WordPress is the 4th needed skill in demand after PHP, HTML and English. According to Elance, WordPress is the 2nd needed skill in demand !! And, it is widely speculated that WordPress may be powering 12% of websites online.

So, are you convinced to consider a freelancing career with WordPress ?

Well, here are some of the usual job profiles for WordPress:

* WordPress installation / setup with standard set of themes and plugins.

* Minor CSS / PHP / jQuery modifications of themes and plugins.

* Custom developing WordPress themes and plugins.

* Developing a WordPress theme from a HTML / PSD design.

* Migrating a WordPress website between hosts.

* Migrating websites from other platforms like Blogger, Typepad to WordPress.

* Regular WordPress monthly maintenance work like keeping the site upgraded, taking backups etc.,

* WordPress SEO: Analyzing theme for SEO friendliness, configuring WordPress and SEO plugins for best results.

* WordPress security: Restoring hacked websites, security analysis for website installations.

* WordPress integration: Integrating other popular software with WordPress database and themes.

* WordPress performance: Increasing page load speed, database optimization etc.

* WordPress MU / BuddyPress / bbPress and other WordPress sister projects.

Each of the above is a niche and you have specialist consultants working on each of them. The asking rate can be 10 USD per hour for newbies and upto 250 USD per hour for experts.

Here are some places to find WordPress freelancers and jobs:

WordPress specific freelance markets

WordPress jobs – Official job board.

WordPress Freelance

WP Hired

WooThemes Jobs

WP Questions

Templatic Themes job board

General freelancing markets with active WordPress jobs

Elance – I started my WordPress freelancing career here. This is a great place. But beware of heavy competition with damn cheap quotes.

http://www.freelancer.com/

Web Freelancing

oDesk

Scriptlance

vWorker

Related posts

WordPress Freelancers

Recommended reading

WordPress: The Free Software with a Big Economy & How you can get involved?

WordPress freelancing from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites

Here are some forums where you can get some WordPress support:

1. WordPress official forum

2. WP Tavern forum

3. Stack Exchange forum for WordPress.

4. IRC channel for WordPress support

Paid support:

5. WP Questions

6. WP Help Center

WordPress.org offficial forum has lots of unanswered and unresolved questions and the waiting time for highly technical questions may be long. Surprisingly, there are not many unofficial support forums for WordPress. The few out there are run by over-worked individual WordPress geeks. Some are closed while some are inactive and filled with spam.

Considering the avalanche of premium sites offering WordPress themes and plugins, there is huge space for premium WordPress support. What do you think? Let me know your opinion and any other interactive WordPress help resources you may know.

WordPress help forums from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites

1. WP Community – This is the most happening WordPress podcast with all the leading names in the Industry. I liked the informality of the show and the variety of topics they cover.

2. WP Candy Podcasts

3. WP Tavern Talk cast on WordPress

4. da WP Show – This is a new podcast. Hope to see more episodes regularly.

Please let me know if you know more WordPress podcasts happening.

WordPress Podcasts from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites

Hostgator - A fair price WordPress host I recommend

Guides

* How to choose a web host for WordPress?

* WordPress recommended web hosts

WordPress specific hosts

* WP Web Host – A web hosting service that claims to be completely focused on WordPress solutions.

* Page.ly – Hosted WordPress services.

* Managed WordPress hosting by ZippyKid

* WP Engine

* WPCDN – WordPress content delivery network.

* Synthesis – Managed WordPress hosting by Copyblogger media. It works only for people who have their sites built Genesis theme framework.

Do you know a hosting service that completely focuses on WordPress? Let me know, please.

WordPress web hosting from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites

1. Yoast – Yoast is a well known WordPress expert and maker of many popular WordPress plugins. His site is very friendly with unique content. I read his newsletter without fail and always learn some new thing.

2. Vladimir Prelovac – Vladimir writes regularly on WordPress and SEO. I like his easy to follow practical advice, simple style of writing and the personal touch in his site.

3. Matt – Founder of WordPress. Period. He doesn’t write much technical stuff but his occasional posts about the philosophy behind WordPress is a must read.

4. Lorelle – I feel her like an official WP spokesperson. You will find anything related to WP documented well here.

5. WPBeginner – A tutorial website to learn all things WP. The site’s content is not just for newbies as it writes on advanced topics every now and then.

6. WPCandy – A community website for WP news.

Must read blogs on WordPress from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites

1. Bage – Bage does WP installation, theme design and customization.

2. Srinath – Srinath does WP installs, theme customization and image editing work. He also manages Twitter, Social media marketing.

Both of them are leading service providers in Elance and have excellent performance.

3. Srini – Srini is a well known WordPress developer of popular themes like Plainscape. He can make custom plugins, customize themes and plugins.

4. Ganesh – Ganesh manages blogs for some of the popular Tamil writers. He has been in business for years and offers range of services covering design, SEO and hosting.

5. Sudar – Sudar takes WP freelancing work occasionally. His specialization is plugin development.

6. Mayu – Mayu is an active blogger and a good friend of mine. He provides WordPress installation and maintenance, HTML -> WordPress theme conversion services. You can check his WordPress freelancing profile

Related post

WordPress Freelancing

WordPress Freelancers from Ravidreams - Faster WordPress Websites