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Mundo 2.0 WordPress

Oferta de trabajo en SF

Una de esas ofertas de trabajo que hacen que se te haga la boca agua… Y nosotros luchando contra viento y marea intentando empujar un poquito este país hacia adelante, en todos los sentidos.

Inevitablemente, te vienen a la cabeza ciertos títulos de películas.


1) Senior-level WordPress Developer, Full Time

GigaOM (http://gigaom.com) is looking for a senior-level WordPress developer who has experience creating and modifying plug-ins, is familiar with WordPress core, and can create/modify themes with performance and scalability in mind. Just to be clear, this is not a design or front-end developer position. This is a leadership opportunity to join a growing team and company who takes pride in their work, and strives to make a difference in the world.

Landing this job means that you will be embarking on an exceptional technological adventure! You’ll get access to the latest tech news and global trends, and engage with highly talented people every day. You’re going to see a lot of great works get delivered, and most importantly, you will have the opportunity to participate in shaping the direction of a rapidly growing company.

There will be a high degree of visibility surrounding your work and you will have a lot to be proud of every single day.

Hours

This is a full-time position at our San Francisco office. Please do not respond to this ad if you can’t be physically in the San Francisco office five days a week.

Requirements

* Expertise in developing, debugging, and performance tuning WordPress plug-ins, core and themes
* Have knowledge and experience working around and possibly patching WordPress core
* Expert knowledge of HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, and CSS
* Expertise with AJAX and JavaScript frameworks like JQuery
* Expertise with API integration
* Expertise with database design, optimizations and SQL
* Experience with XML
* Experience with the APIs from the latest social networks like Facebook and Twitter
* Experience using GIT or SVN
* Proven ability to work in fast paced environment; a positive and proactive attitude

You Must Be

* Communicative, patient and clear under tight deadlines
* Like working on small teams and in a fast-paced start-up environment
* Can work with team members and contractors to complete projects
* Have a desire to innovate and love to take on challenges with an open mind
* Are a PHP Developer first and foremost, and understand the intricacies of WordPress like the back of your hand

2) Webmaster/ Jr. Developer, Full-Time

GigaOM (http://gigaom.com) is looking for a levelheaded, eager-to-learn Junior Webmaster to assist in everyday site? development and maintenance. Help us to maintain and build some of the coolest sites on the Web!

You will be joining a small WordPress dev team that will mentor and encourage your career development. All you need is some solid PHP experience and a can-do attitude! Please review the job requirements below and see if we’re a good fit!

Landing this job means that you will be embarking on an exceptional technological adventure! You’ll get access to the latest tech news and global trends, and engage with highly talented people every day. You’re going to see a lot of great works get delivered, and most importantly, you will have the opportunity to participate in shaping the direction of a rapidly growing company.

There will be a high degree of visibility surrounding your work and you will have a lot to be proud of every single day.

Hours

This is a full-time position at our San Francisco office. Please do not respond to this ad if you can’t be physically in the San Francisco office five days a week.

Requirements

* Experience hand-coding HTML and CSS
* Experience developing with PHP, MySQL, and related technologies
* Experience with WordPress
* Basic image editing skills using Photoshop

Bonus Experience

* JavaScript development experience
* Experience with Subversion
* Experience setting up Apache, MySQL, and WordPress

Duties

* Assist in site maintenance and extension
* Join in the development efforts of new and existing sites and services
* Provide HTML, CSS, WordPress, and other light technical assistance? to editors and other staff members
* Provide light image editing assistance to team members
* Help create tools and processes to improve and streamline ?day-to-day operations

About GigaOM
Founded by award-winning journalist Om Malik, GigaOM has grown into the leading provider of online media, events and research for global technology innovators. The company is one of the most credible and insightful voices at the intersection of business and technology with its network of award-winning Web sites read by more than 5 million monthly unique visitors, Industry-leading events, including Structure, Mobilize, NewTeeVee Live, NetWork, Green:Net and Bunker Sessions, and a pioneering market research service and digital community, GigaOM Pro, which provides insider access to expert analysis on emerging technology markets.

If interested, write Dan Burke at <burke@gigaom.com>.

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WordPress

WordPress Developer Meeting – July 01, 2009

WordPress mugCopio y pego de la página de Aaron D. Campbell, WordPress Informer (las negritas son mías). El lightbox by default se ha vuelto a discutir, y se ha preferido dejarlo como plugin.

The developers had another IRC meeting today, and we discussed the media overhaul for 2.9 & 3.0. The idea is to do a two step process, laying down a lot of groundwork in 2.9 and finishing up in 3.0. Jane will be adding a post and later a poll to get community feedback on some of the items discussed, but here’s a list (in no particular order) of some of the things that will be considered for 2.9 & 3.0:

  • post thumbnails
  • media albums
  • bulk media import API
  • make adding embeds easier (like viper plugin)
  • enable most media settings as defaults that can be overridden on a per image/file or per-use basis
  • cropping, resizing, and rotation (in 90 degree increments) for image uploads…I’m excited about this one
  • Custom Image Sizes. Instead of hardcoded thumb, med, large (manually configuring maximum image sizes for small, thumbnail etc)
  • page exclude plus reorder for blog navigation
  • media metadata
  • uploader feature: ability to choose from most recently used/most often used/marked as favorite files
  • more default shortcodes. check top ten from wp.com. slideshare and any place that advertises wp.com shortcodes
  • importers (specifics TBD)
  • UI header brushup and uploader UI

Plenty of other things were discussed, such as “lightbox by default” for images, but the consensus was that there are good plugins for this. We also discussed post types (examples of post types: book review, recipe, essay, aside), which would let you choose a type for your post and treat it differently based on what you choose (currently posts, pages, and attachments are different “post types”). The idea is to allow users (or plugins) to easily set up different post types. This will be put off until 3.0, but it’s still exciting!

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Mecus WordPress

Beta testing WordPress

Hace unos días os contábamos que WordPress está necesitado de usuarios que quieran participar en el beta-testing de las versiones de desarrollo. La preocupación de que haya más gente probando el sistema para poder localizar los posibles fallos lo antes posible no es sólo nuestra. Ryan Boren, uno de los desarrolladores principales de WordPress, también ha escrito sobre ello y hace un pequeño tutorial para que, si somos un poco intrépidos, seamos capaces de cambiar nuestra versión de WordPress por las versiones de desarrollo. Y, si no estáis muy familiarizados con el inglés, Fernando Tellado nos cuenta cómo hacerlo en español.

Pero si alguna vez te picó la curiosidad de ser beta tester pero te sigue pareciendo muy complicado, Peter Westwood (westi), uno de los Lead Developer de WordPress, nos ha preparado una solución:

Westi se ha planteado que uno de los grandes problemas que tiene ahora mismo con el tema del beta-testing es que tiene que cambiar las versiones que está utilizando a mano cada vez que haya una actualización. Para hacerlo más sencillo (y, sobre todo, para que no tengamos que tocar archivos fuera del directorio wp-content –recordemos que el archivo versions.php está en el directorio wp-includes–), ha creado un plugin que nos permitirá ser beta-testers sólo con instalárnoslo.

WordPress Beta Tester Admin
WordPress Beta Tester Admin

Con el plugin podremos elegir dos sabores:

  • Point release nightlies. Actualizará los archivos del trac que estén marcados como próxima versión menor. Para WordPress 2.8, la próxima versión menor sería la 2.8.1.
  • Bleeding edge nightlies. Actualizará todo lo que se haya tocado hasta el momento. Esta opción es la de desarrollo propiamente dicho, y puede ser inestable (es decir, puede que haya cosas que no funcionen porque aparezca algún bug). Así que si te apuntas a este sabor, estate preparado para lo que te espera :).

Con cada versión mayor de WordPress (2.8, 2.9, 3.0…) se suele cambiar, por optimización, la estructura de la base de datos. Este plugin también nos actualizará la versión correspondiente de la base de datos (el schema) que debemos usar.

Una vez que estés utilizando una versión mayor, no podrás dar marcha atrás, ya que no tenemos ninguna herramienta para modificar la base de datos a la versión anterior. Tenlo en cuenta antes de utilizar la bleeding-edge.

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