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If you are an awesome web developer who loves Reason, your future just got brighter. Check out this job description for a smart, experienced, and results-oriented WordPress developer. We want you to join our team to help migrate our websites and take Reason's world-class libertarian digital brand to the next level.

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Reason Foundation is seeking a full time web developer who will have lead in-house responsibility for the development and operation of Reason.com and Reason.org websites which are being migrated from a proprietary CMS to WordPress.

You will work closely with contractors and staff on development of the new websites, as well as the migration, launch, and ongoing operation and maintenance of those sites. You will manage projects and perform – hands on – all aspects of front-end and back-end WordPress development

You must be highly proficient in WordPress, have at least 3 years of experience developing custom WordPress sites, and at least 5 years of web development experience overall. You must have 2-3 years of experience working with PHP, MySQL, CSS, and Git. Experience in WordPress migrations, web video, web analytics, advertising, e-commerce, and social media integrations is also required. Experience using Bootstrap, Sass, and AWS services a plus.

You will work closely with members of the Reason.com and Reason magazine editorial staff, the Reason Foundation research experts, and others in the organization to build our web presence in a manner that achieves clearly identified objectives and advances Reason's mission of Free Minds and Free Markets.

This position requires a very strong sense of individual responsibility and intense commitment to getting projects completed in a timely and proficient manner without the need for close supervision. In addition to proactively communicating with fellow staff and contractors, very prompt and clear responses to their incoming communications are essential for success in this role.

Location is negotiable, although there is a strong preference for Washington, D.C. Competitive salary and benefits.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to [e-mail].

Comments

[John Titor]

This position requires a very strong sense of individual responsibility and intense commitment to getting projects completed in a timely and proficient manner without the need for close supervision.

They demand this of their web developers, but not their Link posters.

[Hamster of Doom]

Damn your nimble fingers!

[Raven Nation]

HoD! You returned!

[Ted S.]

I see H&R is back to reposting old posts with all the old comments intact.

[Raven Nation]

Sheesh. I’m an idiot – thanks for pointing that out to me.

[Swiss Servator]

No worries, I got all excited too. 🙁

[lafe.long]

Swiss Servator|2.2.17 @ 3:58PM|#|?|filternamelinkcustom

No worries, I got all excited too. 🙁

*narrows ga….*

Aww shit. =(

[John Titor]

This place is now like a Commentariat Graveyard. So many lost voices.

[MSimon]

The older I get. The older I am.

[Lord Rollingpin]

Knowledge of edit function not required.

[Rasilio]

Let me know when you start hiring a dedicated QA team, something you desperately need

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Otherwise known as editors.

[Rasilio]

Oh no, editors are just a bunch of grammar nazis. I make sure shit works before they expose it to you degenerates

[Free Society]

Just please don’t open the commentariat borders to barbarbic Disquis users.

[Tonio]

Yeah, those Disqus commenters are so bad they can’t even spell properly. 😛

[Free Society]

It’s a pronoun! I’ll bother to try to spell them correctly when I’m dead.

[Free Society]

erm proper noun. About that edit button…

[bacon-magic]

At least they know your name. *hangs head in shame still

[Free Society]

No biggie, the shame will only hang like a cloud over your family for three or four generations.

[John DeWitt]

I applied and linked to my many repos of Disquis implementation. Must have impressed…interviewing in person on Monday.

[Zunalter]

Also, if I might add a request for an edit button, please and thank you.

[Hamster of Doom]

This position requires a very strong sense of individual responsibility and intense commitment to getting projects completed in a timely and proficient manner without the need for close supervision.

On the same day as late links. Now we’re going to poke fun at y’all.

[The Late P Brooks]

We want you to join our team to help migrate our websites and take Reason’s world-class libertarian digital brand to the next level.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

[Quincy.]

digital brand

That’s like barcode tattoos, right?

*quietly flips pages at the far end of the Bible*

[Tonio]

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

Agreed.

It will probably break Reasonable, Fascr, etc.

I wonder if the Day of the Commenters thread will survive intact.

Also, there are some pre-registration easter eggs which may disappear.

Please, please don’t break the deep links to individual comments.

But this may finally force Eugene to play by the same rules as us mere mortals.

[Tonio]

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

Agreed.

It will probably break Reasonable, Fascr, etc.

I wonder if the Day of the Commenters thread will survive intact.

Also, there are some pre-registration easter eggs which may disappear.

Please, please don’t break the deep links to individual comments.

But this may finally force Eugene to play by the same rules as us mere mortals.

[Tonio]

It would seem that the squirrels are not happy about this, either. And what about the squirrels? Will they lose the only world they have ever known?

[Pro Libertate]

They could always reside in the Yummy Tears thread. With the VikingMoose.

[Tonio]

I miss the Urkobold crowd.

[Pro Libertate]

We’re all gone, except me and BP. I’ve thought about bringing the blog back, but that was plenty of work even doing things half-assed.

[Cynical Asshole]

It will probably break Reasonable, Fascr, etc.

Yet the squirrelz will somehow survive unfazed…

I wonder if the Day of the Commenters thread will survive intact.

Where is this legendary Day of the Commenters thread I’ve heard about? I’ve tried to find it, but without knowing more (like the actual title of the blog post, for example) I can’t. I’ve heard it was a lot of good old fashioned apocalyptic fun.

[Pro Libertate]

See below a link describing the occurrence. I commented at Urkobold about it:

August 18, 2010: The Day of the Commenters.

Yesterday, several commenters at Hit & Run (who will remain nameless here, to protect the innoc–well, the guilty) uncovered an inline exploit within the comments section of the blog that allowed commenters to insert images (including animated GIFs!), resize text, color text, and even embed blink tags–all within a comment.

Needless to say, Hit & Run commenters utilized these new powers only for good, invoking them solely to emphasize an already erudite point. Actually, that’s not quite true. Before the end of the Day of the Commenters (around 7:00 p.m. EDT), animated images of barely clothed women had already made an appearance, no doubt as a prelude to the total pornification of the blog.

Though doubtless an annoyance to the webmaster and staff of Hit & Run, I can say personally that those of us regulars who attended this commenters’ f?te enjoyed it thoroughly. And, annoyance though it may have been, at least it was used for fun by persons friendly to the blog, allowing it to be fixed without any catastrophes.

Now, sadly, virtually all evidence of the Day of the Commenters has vanished from Hit & Run, along with any ability to replicate the experience. HTML for commenters has been emasculated. Only a simple Wiki entry stands as a testament to this brief taste of FREEEE-DOOOOM!. . . .

[Cynical Asshole]

I saw the link, thanks. Figures they’d flush the evidence down the memory hole. *kicks dirt*

[Pro Libertate]

Of course. Why actually do something that smacks of anarchy?

[Pro Libertate]

Still, this is only one blog. There are others. Go forth my brothers (“And sisters!”)–and sisters–and show other blogs, blogs that offend you, blogs that oppress free men (“And women!”)–and women–and blogs that need a vacation from sanity what HTML disobedience is all about.

To mark this date, bloggers throughout the world should utilize the blink tag in some pointless, yet conspicuous manner.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

I can’t recall if WP has a native comment filter or not. I hate to think of reasonable breaking! GAH!

[Rhywun]

Ouch – good point. It does have a lot of bells and whistles, and there are plug-ins for everything manageable. It’s just a matter of convincing the new guy to add that functionality.

[Rhywun]

“imaginable”

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

That, right there, sounds like a challenge.

There is no web design that could keep up with this crowd’s imagination.

How about some SugarFree based emojis? You can’t very well display extra-dimensional horrors on any standard display.

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

take Reason’s world-class libertarian digital brand to the next level

Which circle are we in right now, and is the next level up or down?

[lap83]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they put up a paywall. Although they’ll have to hide the comments if they really want to be effective

[Groovus Maximus]

You will manage projects and perform ? hands on ? all aspects of front-end and back-end WordPress development

Human Resources: Dept. of Euphemisms.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

Are we still doing “phrasing”?
-Sterling Archer

[Pro Libertate]

Sounds like it.

[Sour Kraut]

git commit -a -m “All Reason stories replaced with SugarFree stories”
git push -f -u origin master
git gc –aggressive –prune=all

[Lee Genes]

Pay attention Reason, you just got your first resume.

[Sour Kraut]

>tail .gitignore

*richman*
*chapman*

>

[Col. Chestbridge]

*applause*

[kbolino]

echo ‘*dalmia*’ >>.gitignore

[sloopyinTEXAS]

What if you have none of those qualifications but really, really want the job? Or does that only work when they post jobs for libertarian writers?

I KEED! I KEED!

[Suthenboy]

Nah. You killed.

*laughing*

[Fatty Bolger]

#MRGA!

[Zero Sum Game]

If you are an awesome web developer

PHP…

Nyuck!

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

And MySQL. Oh joy.

[Zero Sum Game]

Postgres fan or just had bad experiences with MySQL before?

They can’t all be MS SQL Server. And it could be worse. Oracle. *shudders*

[Ted S.]

He’s the father of Little Bobby Tables.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

First experience with MySQL I learned that if you have exactly one timestamp in a table, it automatically updates in every updated row, apparently from the delusion that you are tracking last change. Two or more timestamps and it leaves them alone.

It also accepted complete junk dates, like Feb 47.

There was even a website devoted to MySQL idiocy which explained several of the problems I had worked around.

Also a Postgres fan.

[kbolino]

MySQL Pros: Stability, performance, backwards compatibility
MySQL Cons: Standard SQL? lolwut

[Rhywun]

PHP

Hey, at least they’re bringing the site into the 20th century.

[Pan Zagloba]

It’s what you deal with when you go WordPress. At least they avoided Drupal…

[Rhywun]

Luckily, WordPress does about 99% of the heavy lifting.

I have a WordPress site and I don’t know (or want to know) shit about PHP. All that other crap on the list is only there in case things go tits-up.

[Pan Zagloba]

I’ve been side-dealing with WordPress for about a year and a half at my work, and sounds like they want to customize plugins/write custom code, for which they’ll have to do PHP. Luckily, the APIs are not too terrible.
Hopefully they get someone who actually has 3 years experience, rather than “welp, I know PHP, how hard can it be?” Because the answer is, “not hard, but can get obtuse”.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

I’ve been working with WP for about 8 years, and my PHP is minimal. WP has the advantage of a great Codex and help system, where you can figure out how to do shit like add widget areas without knowing PHP.

[John]

Since this is the guy maintaining the server, could you please drug test for this position? I know that is not Libertarian but it would be nice to have an IT guy who wasn’t stoned and server performance that reflects that.

[bacon-magic]

Stoners can be good at their job. You’d be surprised at the percentage of people you talk to every day that are pot heads and are contributing members of society.
*passes joint

[Hamster of Doom]

Drug tests doesn’t keep potheads from getting the job. Stupid potheads, maybe, but people who want stupid employees have bigger worries.

[DOOMco]

it’s shitty work

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

“Are you cool, man?”

“No.” replied John.

“Whatever, man.”

[Pan Zagloba]

It better not be the guy in charge of the server. If you try to get a developer to do a sysadmin’s job (or vice versa), you’ll get…well, Reason on Election Night 2016. Or worse.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Yeah…web devs and hardware folks ain’t the same thing (most of the time).

[Rhywun]

This. I am a developer and even within that I specialize in database stuff. I can get by in web stuff. Everything to do with hardware, networks, etc is a world I want *nothing* to do with & I am glad there are others to do that for me.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

Me too – I don’t wanna know shit about servers and stacks and fiber optics. Luckily I’ve moved on from development and am now in the web PM “field”.

We’re also moving from a proprietary CMS to WordPress…I can’t fucking wait.

If I want a user list, I have to ask the vendor. I had to have the vendor removing a couple headings from a page. Like, WTF? I can’t remove my own fucking headings?

[Pan Zagloba]

Dafuq?

Are you guys hosting your own stuff? If so, try and get friendly with the sysadmin, so he’ll let you peek into the database. I bet you can pull the user list from it in 15 minutes or less.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

It’s hosted by our vendor. the CMS is proprietary, so no way they’re gonna let me peek.

WP can’t come soon enough.

[Diane Merriam]

Things were so much simpler back in the early 90’s days of Novell and dBase III (well, actually Clipper). Kept that old AT server in the back bedroom up for almost 9 months without a single outage.

[Holger da Dane]

I am glad there are others to do that for me.

Dev or Ops is not a binary choice, stop othering sysadmin-Americans!

[kbolino]

DevOps: that means you do everything, right?

[UnCivilServant]

But do nothing well.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Just keep putting people in your little box, John.

Fact: The last three Presidents of the United States were admitted pot smokers.

If it’s good enough for the nuke button it’s good enough for the Reason servers.

[bacon-magic]

“You must have extensive Squirrelz training and be able to compliment a journalist with ease.”

[Lee Genes]

Are you hiring someone to drag Fist out of his hole in the basement as well?

[Groovus Maximus]

No, just to make sure his ‘backdoor’ Fist access is maintained.

[Fist of Etiquette]

These euphemisms.

[Stormy Dragon]

Experience using … Sass … a plus.

You have to show those commenters who’s boss from day one.

[Drake]

I have a .22, enjoy shooting squirrels, and am willing to be paid on bounties.

[bacon-magic]

I have a .22 and a 12 gauge so I want to be your sidekick.

[Curt]

I’ve got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four-wheel drive.

[Lord Humungus]

Bring back Warty as #warmod

[Groovus Maximus]

Nope. #JWMOD Never 5get!

[flye]

So when does the commentariat get to panel interview the applicants?

[Pro Libertate]

Never. Not since we demonstrated our coding might on the Day of the Commenters.

[Sour Kraut]

Before my time I imagine. Link?

[Pro Libertate]

It’s gone, but vestiges remain.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Probably not safe for work, humans.

[Pro Libertate]

Come on, the girl was dressed.

[DesigNate]

I was mesmerized for like 10 minutes watching that gif.

[Swiss Servator]

“So….tell us your thoughts on edit buttons? Squirrelz? Late Mourning Lynx?”

[flye]

“Well your qualifications seem to be in order. Tell us, what do you like to do in your spare time? Be specific.”

[Tonio]

Every site that has comments has a regular base, but apparently we stand out for our…tenacity. I suspect the poor devil who gets the job will not learn that until he’s already under contract and properly implanted.

[Pro Libertate]

Our tenacity and our almost fanatical devotion to the pope.

[Pan Zagloba]

Who is the Libertarian Pope? The Jacket? Postrel? Kmele?

[Tonio]

Eddie?

[Pro Libertate]

Dear Lord, no. The Kochs, of course.

[Rhywun]

Who doesn’t have fanatical devotion to kochs?

[Tonio]

Eddie?

[Cynical Asshole]

All this time I thought it was William Shatner. Because he can score anything.

[Pro Libertate]

He’s Canadian.

[Col. Chestbridge]

Jimbo?

[Bobarian (Would Chip Her)]

Jimbo?

[Groovus Maximus]

Orange Catholic or BUST!

[MikeT1986]

Trump?

[flye]

A question over here from a west coaster… hello? Is anyone still here?

[Tonio]

Did anyone else hear something?

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

The good news is that I’ve heard of most of those technologies. The bad news is that my best proficiency in the entire list is in Git. I haven’t even used Git in 4 years, so I’m a bit rusty. However, for the completely reasonable cost of $800/day, I’m happy to muck around with this website and make it no worse than it already is.

#Trshmnstr4WebDesigner

[DOOMco]

I will do it for less.

[Sour Kraut]

Slap a 35% tariff on this foreigner and take away his H1B.

[Tonio]

I suspect one of the early elimination questions will be “Are you now, or have you ever been, an H&R commenter?”

[Swiss Servator]

DISQUALIFIED!

[Tonio]

Also, serif typeface to make it easier to read certain names Illocust, AmSoc (the “ell” variant), etc.

[Pro Libertate]

What? Sans serif! Unless you use the long s.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Here’s a GreaseMonkey script that does exactly that. I’m unaware if Chrome has a similar extension for running random little bits of javascript.

[Rhywun]

You can use Stylish do exactly that if you have a little patience and HTML know-how. (I use it to remove all the fluff surrounding the articles and comments.)

[Tonio]

Thanks, Trashy and Rhywun.

[Groovus Maximus]

AND FIX THE MOTHERFUCKING “Your comment appears to written in a non-English script” HORSESHIT!

Seriously, Reason, if you all are going to pat your backs and jerk off all over yourselves in a Soavatarian-style of self-congratulatory fervor over your, “Cultural Open-Mindedness,” then let it be reflected in the Non English character choices much more easily. Hell, if I wanna post in all Wing Dings, Sod Dammit, let me post in Wing Dings.

Just block Comic Sans.

[Rhywun]

Seriously. I suspect that was some long-gone intern’s half-assed attempt at “security”.

[Tonio]

C’mon big guy, let’s walk that off.

[Groovus Maximus]

“Your comment appears to written in a non-English script”

[Private Chipperbot]

I’m picturing you upending a Risk board…

[greasonable]

Greasonable allows you to change fonts.

[Cynical Asshole]

Don’t suppose you guys have any openings for a disgruntled aerospace engineer to maybe write about developments in the aerospace/ defense field from a libertarian perspective. And who would like to be paid commensurate with what he’s making now as an engineer despite not having any journalism experience or training?

No? I didn’t think so.

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

I’d read that. Seriously folks, we need a spot for commenter submitted articles.

[Sour Kraut]

You are envisioning a libertarian Daily Kos?

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

being that I’ve never spent more than 30 seconds at a time on DKos, I genuinely am not sure.

[Pro Libertate]

Quite a lot of talent hereabouts. Iowahawk used to comment here, for instance.

[Tonio]

commenter submitted articles

LOL. Like that would ever happen.

[Swiss Servator]

No really! Imagine a feature – “SugarFree’s Fic”

….

Forget…forget I said that!!!

*runs from room*

[Pan Zagloba]

Probably for the best.

Exception: SugarFree Stories, Agile Cyborg poetry, JT’s Tips For Crusader Kings 2.

[Cynical Asshole]

That actually would be kind of cool. Of course, it’ll be 99% SugarFree slashfic and Agile Cyborg poetry, but still.

[Swiss Servator]

DAMMIT!

[Pan Zagloba]

Thrice damned, I say! THRICE!

[Swiss Servator]

“Agile Cyborgs Poetry Corner”

[Pro Libertate]

Good idea. Gives him something to do with the MacArthur Foundation grant he won.

[Lord Humungus]

“How to become a sad lonely aspie commentator?”

“Or how I went from a Lefty to a Righty to the least popular political outlook in the world; all in 5 easy steps”

[Curt]

Maybe a section called, “What Really Grinds My Gears”.

[Tonio]

I would love to read your articles on that subject. Considering that the person here who usually writes those has no fucking clue.

[Ceci n'est pas un woodchipper]

Oh my god, I’ll pay you to not move to WP. Just fix your own damn CMS, or go to like Django or Keystone. Or if you’ve absolutely got to stick with PHP, go with something like Craft. Don’t use a CMS that forces your developers to be designers and vice versa. And don’t use a CMS that’s going to trap you in plugin hell three years down the road.

Seriously, please, reconsider WP. Come into the 21st century. And, PHP? For real? Why not COBOL, sheesh.

[Tonio]

Add Sex to Violence yielding Fun.

[Fist of Etiquette]

More threading.

[Pro Libertate]

Horizontal posting.

[Groovus Maximus]

Nested euphemisms.

[Free Society]

Man spreading.

[PapayaSF]

No love for Joomla?

Personally, I’d like the ability to vote comments up and down, and view them by Most Liked. It would help in long threads.

I agree with fixing the non-English script thing. Also, make sure that if someone double-clicks on the Submit button, the comment is not posted twice.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

A platform that allows for better threading, an edit button and a major– and I mean major cleanup of the site.

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Starting with dropping Rico and that new Eric guy, amirite? :: high-fives Diane::

[Derp-o-Matic 5000]

Wait, did Fist get fired?

[Fist of Etiquette]

I refused to add more orange.

[BigW]

Wanted: Squirrel Killer….

[Stilgar]

Might want to post the requirements on HackerNews too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13301832

[commodious rebrands]

Okay, NOW they’re trolling us.

[DOOMco's Ref Chipper]

We wish.

[esteve7]

Come work at Reason, where we all have TDS, ignore police abuse of old ladies, and employ people like Dalmia, which blame violent leftist rioters on free speech advocates.

[Lachowsky]

I’m a Yokel, need I apply?

[Pan Zagloba]

Please, please, someone who knows WordPress well, please apply. We need you!

I only have 18 months or so, and no way would I move to DC but please, it’s not so hard!

[CZmacure]

OMG PLEASE A COMMENT SYSTEM WITH THE FEATURES OF DISQUS. WHY NOT… DISQUS?

[Cynical Asshole]

Deja-vu. Something was changed in the Matrix.

[$park? is totally a Swifty]

I’m sorry, Reason folks, but this is kind of a textbook example of tin ear.

[Hyperion]

I’ll take 300K, 12 weeks of vacation, paid holidays, free health insurance, and relocation costs paid. I’ll fix the website, no supervision needed. And I don’t require cocktail party invites!

[Hyperion]

How did this article get so many posts that fast? It nearly exceeds the greatest thread ever, the thread about nothing. Which Reason deleted and I’ll never forgive them for it. It’s sort of like that time you were drunk and your wife twisted her ankle and then you threw one of her favorite high heels in the river, because at the moment it seemed funny. It’s like that.

[BakedPenguin]

Seriously? This is the third time it’s been posted.

[Fatty Bolger]

Does this mean they’re having trouble finding somebody?

“You want to pay me how much? To live in DC? Are you crazy?”

[Hyperion]

/sarcasm

[BakedPenguin]

Crap, batteries are running low in my sarc detector.

[Hyperion]

What? You don’t have the orphan tear powered one yet?

[Domestic Dissident]

More Taboola ads please. We can never be reminded often enough how stunning celebrities of the ’80s appear today!

[Hyperion]

Your utility company hates that one simple trick.

[Hyperion]

What’s a WordPress? Is that one of them old printer press things I saw in the local museum of industry?

[kbolino]

Hmm, if your overly narrow job requirements didn’t catch any fish the first two times you posted it, maybe you should relax the requirements?

[Rhywun]

I don’t know what it is with “tech job” requirements but they’re always ridiculously overinflated for what the actual position demands. This one is actually pretty modest compared to most. “What do you mean there’s no expert in these fifteen languages and twelve frameworks willing to take this entry-level position?!”

[Fatty Bolger]

I once saw a job that required 5-10 years of experience in a development tool that had only been out for three years. I assume a lot of that stuff is just cut & paste boilerplate, and they fill in the appropriate “blanks.”

[kbolino]

Take:

1 part legal liability for anything less than “objective” job requirements
1 part proliferation and self-aggrandizement of HR departments and personnel

Mix in a blender and serve chilled.

[Pan Zagloba]

I dunno, the requirements look reasonable (ahem) to me for what the position will entail. Years of experience is the only thing that made me raise my eyebrow, but they could be planning something really ambitious for new H&R.
If they are set on WordPress, then WordPress dev, PHP, CSS and SQL are pretty much mandatory.

[kbolino]

The problem is this bit:

This position requires a very strong sense of individual responsibility and intense commitment to getting projects completed in a timely and proficient manner without the need for close supervision.

If they already picked the technologies, that implies there is an established shop. But then they’re basically saying the applicant will be a one-man shop. There’s not much call for “a very strong sense of individual responsibilty” if so many of the decisions have already been made.

[Pan Zagloba]

Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, whoever gets picked will be doing all the tech as commanded from above. The fact that requirement makes sense just means that either someone at Reason did due diligence to choose new CMS, or they had commissioned an outsider to give them the requirements.

Now they need a developer to make the migration and new features happen, while not being a horrible Aspie who ignores everyone then tells them to fuck off (that’s how I interpret “proactively communicating with fellow staff and contractors, very prompt and clear responses to their incoming communications are essential for success in this role.”)

[Rhywun]

If they are set on WordPress, then WordPress dev, PHP, CSS and SQL are pretty much mandatory.

I think 2-3 years of quality experience in any single one of those things is good enough & you can pick up the rest.

I’ve farted around in the guts of WordPress and I don’t know a thing about PHP other than it’s a more painful version of other stuff I already know.

[Rufus The Monocled]

“You must be highly proficient in WordPress, have at least 3 years of experience developing custom WordPress sites, and at least 5 years of web development experience overall. You must have 2-3 years of experience working with PHP, MySQL, CSS, and Git. Experience in WordPress migrations, web video, web analytics, advertising, e-commerce, and social media integrations is also required. Experience using Bootstrap, Sass, and AWS services a plus.”

Being libertarian. Optional.

[Pan Zagloba]

Tech should be politically neutral and do what they’re told!

[Basketball Uber Alles, Jr.]

Location is negotiable, although there is a strong preference for Washington, D.C

Well, duh.

[Rasilio]

So given that this is the 3rd time this has been posted can we assume that you’re either not getting any applicants or is it that they just laugh when they hear the salary you’re offering?

You know libertarians don’t do discounts right? 🙂

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Vujade. The strange feeling none of this has ever happened before.

[Hihndication]

Look at the number of commentators up thread that we have lost since this was posted the first time.

[DOOMco's Ref Chipper]

🙁

[lap83]

“Next level” = paywall

If you guys didn’t love Trump so much they wouldn’t have to do this

[eBay Wordpress Theme]

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[Free Society]

Fuck edit buttons. ONE AND DONE FOR LIFE

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

I want an edit button as long as we can see the previous versions. Don’t want no squirrels (human or otherwise) editing a comment to change what it says and make its subcomments look foolish!

[Tonio]

Yeah, I’m thinking edit function. I think that’s supported in WordPress. I just hope it will show that a comment has been edited, preferably allow you to access the original comment. Most of us here would only use it for typos, but some of the trolls would love to disappear some of their more unhinged and indefensible comments.

[Chipper Morning Wood]

1) Edit button

2) being able to see replies to your comments on your profile page

[Trshmnstr, Grump Apprentice]

Edit button that times out after either 90 seconds or the first reply.

[Homple]

The preview button is good enough for me, and I should use it more.

[Kurmudgeonly Kristen]

The answer to that might be to always quote when replying.

[Diane Merriam]

The basic disqus plugin is free for WordPress. There are quite a few other ones available as well, but that, especially if you set it up with Ajax loading, is probably the best.

[Agammamon]

This ain’t kayak.com.

[Agammamon]

This ain’t kayak.com.

[Agammamon]

SQUIRRELS! agree with me.

[Holger da Dane]

No, just have it versioned like SR&C suggests. That way you can fix stuff or elaborate, but if you change the message anyone will be able to see what you said before.

[Ted S.]

God no, not Disqus.

[CZmacure]

What is better than Disqus?

[John DeWitt]

Indeed is a horrible place to find web devs.