hardy24
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Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Debate: Paid For Work On Top Of WordPressI can argue that’s done more often that not.
If true, that both shocks and saddens me
You tell me? What do you tell a client when they say they want XYZ feature, and its not something that WP does out of the box, OR something handled by a plugin?
To be clear, i’m actually just starting out and have yet to take on a client where something built on to of wordpress was what suited them best. I started this discussed because I see it as a possibility for the future. But to answer your question, I can honestly say if the client wanted something which WP didn’t do out of the box, i’d either try and figure it out myself or i’d ask a fellow designer to consult on it and pay for there time.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Debate: Paid For Work On Top Of WordPressThat defies the whole reason for giving back to plugin authors in the first place. A plugin author worked — whether the money does the most good for someone else is of no consequence. Thats like suggesting that because someone might be well off that they they ought to be skipped when it comes to “giving back”?
A good point.
Frankly, designers ought to steer clear of WP all together. Too many of you cant understand PHP, much less, write it, and you do more harm than good to those that can.
Is there a huge mass of web designers claiming to be PHP developers I’m not aware of?
You all use someone else work (plugins) and typically, someone elses theme(s), and then you ask questions here (free forum) and you call all of that yours. Meh.
Okay, if someone did install wordpress, use a theme done by someone else and install some plugins and then tell a client it was all there own work, that would be plain wrong, but boy do you get upset when I try to start a debate about the best way to give back to the developers, the plugin authors and other such people.
If you cant write my simple little plugin by yourself, what the hell are you doing trying to (re)design a WP site anyway?
Maybe my case is not usual, but I do feel quite comfortable building a site on top of WP, but would not know the first thing when it came to writing plugins.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Debate: Paid For Work On Top Of WordPressYeah I wouldn’t word it as a donation on the bill, I’d probably put it in with hosting and other such expenses.
I was wondering maybe we could come up with a formula or a set of rules for how much to add on and where it would go. I don’t think it’s totally unreasonable to add as much as 10% on to bill (before other expenses) to be distributed amongst various people whose work on various things you may have used. But my biggest question is really, for who would probably small donations like this do the most good?, in the grand scheme of things the automattic probably deserve the most of the donations for being the ones developing wordpress, but would the donations actually be more appreciated by individuals writing plugins?