where did you find a good developer for Wordpress? there are so many that it’s hard to separate wheat from chaff. Especially when it comes to doing things with security/authorization.
As a CTO/developer who works with Ruby/Rails and hates php, I think you made the best choice! Especially as a solo who needs these types of “auxillary” functionality. Wordpress is crazy productive in this way. Their plugin ecosystem, ease of upgrades, admin interface with roles is amazing. And the extensibility using filters and hooks is insane. I sometimes wish other libraries could offer this customization abstraction, even though it’s hard to reason about hooks and filters and it’s weird to get used to. But so powerful.
> where did you find a good developer for Wordpress?
I was kind of lucky that my brother in law has a software development firm in Slovakia. So I hired one of his employees with the agreement that I would just pay for his time, and there are no deadlines. That means this developer could work on my stuff in between their other projects (which do have deadlines). This way I could get a good deal on the rate.
My fail plan was to follow him up closely, and if he didn't deliver the first week I would be able to pay for his time and don't request more work (don't want to get in arguments with family ;)). But it all went great!
For you, I would try out someone and give them a tiny thing to start with. If they can deliver, let them do more. Since you're a developer you should be able to judge their work. That way you limit the loss when it doesn't work out.
As a CTO/developer who works with Ruby/Rails and hates php, I think you made the best choice! Especially as a solo who needs these types of “auxillary” functionality. Wordpress is crazy productive in this way. Their plugin ecosystem, ease of upgrades, admin interface with roles is amazing. And the extensibility using filters and hooks is insane. I sometimes wish other libraries could offer this customization abstraction, even though it’s hard to reason about hooks and filters and it’s weird to get used to. But so powerful.