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WordPress Developer
The IT Team at ProductiveMuslim.com is looking to hire an experienced WordPress Developer to join our friendly and hard-working Web Team. You’ll be enthusiastic with a positive attitude, dedication and willingness to work hard – sometimes under high pressure.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Experience of PHP 5 and OOP with minimum 2 years experience of PHP programming, MySQL, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the good practice & de-facto standard plugins
- Experience working with WordPress at PHP code level:
- Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions
- Creation of custom post types
- Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with the WordPress coding standards
- Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and re-usable code
- Theme/Template integration
- Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) beneficial
- Source Code Management using:
- Subversion (SVN) or
- GIT would be advantageous but full training will be provided
- Experience of working with remote team
- Good Communication Skills
Nice to have:
- Exposure to Front-end speed optimisations
- Experience creating multi-lingual websites Advantageous
- Knowledge and experience of web accessibility
- Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues
Note: The job description describes the principal purpose and main elements of the job. It is a guide to the nature of the main duties as they currently exist but is not intended as a wholly comprehensive or permanent schedule of tasks.
Salary:
Unpaid, voluntary position
Why join the team:
- Work with a dynamic and international team of leading muslim professionals in their respective industries
- Benefit from team members’ knowledge and experience as well as courses
- Learn modern productivity techniques and boost your own productivity
- Develop yourself professionally. Example of things you’ll learn:
- Developing large-scale, complex sites using WordPress as CMS
- How to optimise and scale website for a large audience base
- Responsive Web Development
- How to optimise website for speed
- How scale a site beyond a simple blog
Bonus points:
If you develop a cool plug-in for ProductiveMuslim, we like to give you full credit for your work. We will encourage and support you in sharing it with rest of the world via WordPress.org Plugin or Theme Directory.
To Apply:
Send your CV to [email protected] along with a cover letter outlining why you think you’d match the job requirements. Also include any relevant examples of your work.
Deadline for applications: 22nd January, 2013. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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I think part of the definition of “job” is salary. You’re not “hiring”. You’re looking for a skilled volunteer. I think there’s a difference.
Thanks for sharing your honest feedback with us!
I see what you’re saying, but I’m sure you’d agree that a “job” doesn’t necessitate monetary compensation and that “hiring/recruitment” is simply a process of sourcing required skills.
I understand that people in jobs are generally compensated monetarily (i.e., have a salary) and so the same was expected from our recruitment ad.
Technically, “job vs. volunteer role” and “hiring vs. looking for” don’t really differ. However, we will keep this point of choice of words in mind during future recruitment to stay safe from misunderstandings, inshaAllah.
JazakAllah khair for telling us what you think! Truly appreciate it.
Thanks for sharing your opinion here!
I think it would really depend on what one’s seek to gain. Every member of the Productive Muslim team is a volunteer and we think it’s one of the best opportunities we’ve got in life, alhamdulillah.
Appreciate your honest feedback.
I am deeply sorry, because I don’t have enough skills to work with you guys but you have all my support!
May Allah bless you all.
PS: a productive muslim will always manage his/her time well in order to do this kind of volunteer work ;-)
With the paycheck I get in this life, I can only deposit it in to my bank account here & use it shortly after to purchase a product of use.
But putting my time & hard work in a task like this, is like depositing my paycheck with Allah SWT, in the bank of Hereafter, with the hope of purchasing a little piece of Jannah. In Sha Allah.
May Allah SWT bless us all with His Bountiful Mercy.
May Allah accept it from us all. Ameen.
I’m afraid you’ve misunderstood here. All members are Productive Muslim are given due credit, recognition, and feedback, alhamdulillah. The difference may lie in the fact that most of that is done internally in our case as we prefer to have our audience focus on Productive Muslim rather than the team. :)