Arts Professional is mid-way through a platform migration from Drupal to WordPress.

We are working with a small agency who are responsible for the development of code and for the design.  As part of the project, we are responsible for the configuration of a number of plugins, and for building the forms and flows for common transactions on the site (e.g. register as a user, subscribe, post a job).

Our agency have done amazing work with a large and complex content migration, but while they has a backlog of issues they are working through we feel the project would benefit from more active project management and increased effort on our side.

At each stage, we either:

  • Configure a particular area of functionality or plugin, finesse and test the process from end to end, and sign it off as successful
  • or make modifications ourselves where we can
  • or pass the issue back to the web agency for their backlog

What we're looking for

We are looking for a proactive, problems solving technically minded person to help boost our team in each of the above areas. 

At this stage, we need support with these specific tasks:

  • Fully translate our proposed advertising options into Gravity Forms which people can use to buy advertising, and test the process end to end
     
  • Finalise the configuration of Gravity Forms, Stripe and WP Job Manager for our jobs board, including Zapier processes which connect to our accounting system (Xero) to generate invoices
     
  • Create Gravity Forms through which people can buy event listings 
     
  • Configure MemberPress to fit our subscription model, and work with our publisher to create (and ideally implement) a plan to migrate current subscribers on Drupal, to Memberpress
    • Ensure users can subscribe to a free level of subscription, if they wish only to receive e-mail newsletters
    • Write messaging for each stage of the process – e.g. on-screen prompts, e-mail messages which can be based on existing transactional templates
       
  • Configure WP to Buffer Pro to enable social media auto-posting
     
  • Build newsletter templates in The Newsletter Plugin, work with our agency to specify new types of layout that are required
     
  • Proactively engage the agency to log items in their backlog and work with the team to test fixes
     
  • Create pages for each of our Editorial Partners, based on an existing template
     
  • New templates

Our small and super-friendly team are looking for a superhero to help us get our project over the line.  Within our team we have the knowledge on what needs to be done, but are lacking the time to see it through.  Our CEO has been project managing the project to date while juggling other things, and that’s the main reason it’s currently stalled – he’ll be on hand to provide input, and will provide example Loom videos of how to complete tasks. 

We don’t expect any one person to have experience with all these plugins, we didn’t when we first installed them, but if you're completely comfortable working with WordPress and Zapier, that'd be a great start. An ability to intuitively pick up how CMS plugins work, together with attention to detail will both be critical to the success of this opportunity. 

Terms

At a rate of £250per 8-hour day, we expect that we will need 4-6 weeks of work in total though we anticipate that both you and we will need flexibility, so the total project may run for 8-10 weeks.  Our ideal candidate would start in December or January, we are keen that the new site goes live by the end of March.

How to apply

Please e-mail our CEO and Publisher, Robin Cantrill-Fenwick, on [email protected] to introduce yourself. If you can provide a link to any portfolio, or a CV that is helpful – otherwise an e-mail to outline your experience of working with WordPress, web testing, or problem-solving for digital would be great.

 

Editorial Partners