If you’re a WordPress freelancer, or if you are just looking for some pocket change earned thanks to your WordPress hacking skills, how are you supposed to get some homework to do? How to find your daily WordPress job?

The mandatory thing to do is to subscribe to the wp-pro mailing list. A few times a day, people are posting in there seeking for assistance in various fields (coding, theme designing, installing…)

The official WordPress Jobs covers also a wide variety of topics: you can post and look for job offers regarding Programming, Designing, or even Blogging.

WordPress Job is a website that WordPress freelancers are going to follow: it’s aggregating WordPress job offers (several every day) from the main freelancers’ sites such as ScriptLance, RentACoder, GetAFreeLancer. Be warned though, competition there is really harsh and bids outrageously low :)

General job listing sites can be efficient, too. Simply Hired returns quite some results when looking for “wordpress”, mostly coming from Elance and oDesk.

What else? Do you know or use another source for WordPress job offers?
(Photo credits: Daniel Starrason)

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I’ve been a Colour Lover since a few years, I love that site. A few weeks ago, they sent me an email telling that they were about to release an API to play with colors and palettes created by other color lovers, so what could I do? A WordPress plugin, obviously. Warning: this is going to be TAFW (Too Addictive For Work).

(Feed readers: in case you miss it, here goes a video)

If you still have no clue : this plugin fetches color palettes from ColourLovers and lets you play with the generated CSS real time, till you make something cool so you can save it as a standalone reusable CSS. How super cool is this, seriously ? :)

ETA: a few days. Stay tuned !

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For my next stuff I needed the Javascript equivalents of PHP functions basename() and dirname(). Nothing genius:

It obviously supports paths like /home/ozh/stuff.php, http://site.com/file.ext or double backslashed Win32 paths such as C:\\dir\\document.txt.

Edit: Mister Ze in comments points out to PHP.JS, an ongoing project aiming to port PHP to Javascript. Some really neat stuff there.

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This tatoo doesn't even validate, duh! (via the always entertaining pics.reddit)

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Something seems to be broken between Feedburner and Netvibes. Yesterday, Planet WordPress was showing off a cool 1050 feed readers, and today the counter has dropped down to 267. After logging in Feedburner's control panel to check some stats, I found out that:

• Netvibes users are not counted any longer
• Netvibes user count used to be... odd. Stats from last month show that nearly 75%! of Planet WordPress readers where Netvibes users, and this seems to be really improbable.
  

Anyone else notices a feed reader drop because of this? I hope things are not that broken with Netvibes. I was pretty happy of the nice constant raise of Planet WordPress's feed reader count, I'd be quite disappointed to see it deflate :)

Edit: feed reader count back to 1050, with the unbelievable share of Netvibes users at 72%. Go figure.

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ShareWP is a digg-like site (using Pligg I think) dedicated solely to, obviously, WordPress. It seems fairly new (domain registered a few months ago, only a handful or registered users) and I think it has some potential: overall it's nicely done, and well focused on WordPress, a topic that other socialish sites such as Reddit or Digg seem to neglect.

You can submit articles, themes or plugins, with a few predefined categories as well as, of course, the tags you'd like. The process of submitting an article is pretty much what you expect from a Digg clone, with all the spell check and preview and everything.

The sites comes with the mandatory tools (bookmarklet and "Vote It" one-click submit button) but, quite oddly I'd say, doesn't provide their own... WordPress plugin that would add the Vote button at the end of each article? (To be fair, explanations are given on how to integrate this button to your theme template, but I think a plugin would make newbies' day)

Last question, that will remain unanswered for now, will be: will there be any SharedWP effect killing poor websites and bringing servers knees down? Vote for this article and we all find out :)
Edit: Guess we won't be finding out immediately, since all I get when clicking on the "Vote" badge is a 404. The story still shows up on front page though. Hopefully fixed soon! Fixed! :)

Edit: Launchus interruptus! The site has been (temporarily we hope) taken down because it was not completely ready. Stay tuned!

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WordCast, "Just another WordPress podcast". Add this one to your to-listen list along with The WordPress Podcast and Jeffro's WordPress Weekly if you can't get enough of WordPress related podcasted news.

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For about one year now, I've been twittering this site's updates on my @ozh Twitter account, without really telling anyone about it. Call this a forgotten experiment. Well, I'm now telling you, so feel free to follow me!

(Note: I'm not really a Twitter user, so don't expect anything from me if you twitt something to @ozh)

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