Looking for Consultant

[webmind]

Hi, I'm looking for a design consultant who is fairly expert with WordPress. How sad that WordPress recommends BlueHost, but if you have a WordPress problem they refuse help.

I can pay you a reasonable fee just to make some minor tweaks to my website. How to create multiple page articles: how to rotate HTML affiliate banners; how to make some of the fonts in the sidebar look a little nicer, etc.

Just simple stuff like that. If you're up for making a few easy dollars, I'd like to chat. Thanks and take care,

Dan

[EricJ]

Bluehost won't help you with problems with wordpress because it's not something the techs are trained on. Its not that they don't want to help you, it's that they know helping with wordpress usually takes a lot of php experience, which is not something the average tech has. Even if a tech does help you with wordpress because they know some php and have worked with wordpress before, the help the techs provide won't be as complete or thorough as going to a place such as the forums on wordpress.org.

Contacting BH support for wordpress problems is like contacting micro$oft to tell them that your hardware is toasted.. Micro$oft didn't make the hardware, how can they support it? same difference with BH providing support for wordpress problems.

BH techs are there to help you with getting wordpress installed, helping with cPanel features, FTP, email problems, slowness, server problems etc. etc... NOT scripting, scripting is a whole separate ball park..

[webmind]

Thanks Eric,

Makes sense. So you any good at WordPress, or know anyone who is?

Actually, what I really need is the ability to use html code to rotate affiliate banners, adsense, etc. Can you help me program that into my theme?

Dan

[EricJ]

you could use the random html generator from the cPanel. then you specify a bunch of image calls in there.. then just copy and paste the cgi code into wherever you want it into your wp theme. :D

You may want to check out http://ifreelance.com/

[bh_WP_fan]

What you are looking for isn't something built into WordPress. I'm also not sure if you just want to flip an image, or if you want changing(like flash?) banners. There are people who specialize in helping others with WordPress. Here is a link that contains a couple of places: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/221562

[MrDelish]

I've had good luck tweaking pre-built templates and using free plugins for my own sites (I'm no Wordpress expert, so that's as deep as I've dare to go). Here's one that I've used for adsense code: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn/.

It sounds like you'd mostly need some CSS and plugin assistance, which I could help out with (if you're desperate enough :) ). PM me if you'd like to discuss details.

[GAMT]

Google is your friend.. and don't forget Yahoo. :P
Anyway most of the scripting can be found with a simple search of "random banner rotator ."

And if you need help adding it to wordpress just use the wordpress forums.. it's not as hard as it seems.

[arnb]

Here's some simple php code I use to show three random images from a directory.

if ($fldir = scandir('images'))
{
array_shift($fldir); // get rid of . and .. entries
array_shift($fldir);
shuffle ($fldir);
$fltitle='Image title text for rollover.';
$fllink='<a href="http://www.example.com">';
echo $fllink,'<img class="xyz" src="images/',$fldir[0],'" alt="" title="',$fltitle,'" /></a><br />',PHP_EOL;
echo $fllink,'<img class="xyz" src="images/',$fldir[1],'" alt="" title="',$fltitle,'" /></a><br />',PHP_EOL;
echo $fllink,'<img class="xyz" src="images/',$fldir[2],'" alt="" title="',$fltitle,'" /></a><br />',PHP_EOL;
}

[Kloutier]

I am sure there are some plug ins that do that for you. WP has a plug in for just about everything.


Try www.wordpress.org/support

[Early Out]

I am sure there are some plug ins that do that for you.
Well, how about providing a link to one? Just sending a user to a general-purpose support site isn't very helpful.

[webmind]

Thanks for all your generous replies. I use the Atahualpa theme 3.3.2 that has an automatic banner rotator, which is fine, but they are just static images that can only link to the home page.

What I want is to rotate affiliate banners using HTML code that rotates different banners and links to the affiliate product or sites, adsense or clickbank ad code, etc.

Any ideas? I would be happy to pay someone who knows what they are doing. Thanks.

[ack]

You can use javascript or PHP or ASP image rotator script to achieve this...

[seo-optimization]

I can help you make some cool changes on your website.

[djmatt]

in your cpanel, click on "cgi center" under "software/services" and then look for "entropy banners" at the bottom of the list. I have never used it, but it lets you create rotating banner ads for your site.

[Early Out]

Threads like this always turn into spam magnets.

Closed.