15 Jun 07 Writing Gig
I’ve just picked up my first paid writing gig – Mark over at Weblog Tools Collection posted a brief note a couple of days ago indicating he was looking for someone to take over the daily theme and plugin release entries. Well, I’ve relied on those for a long time as my best source for new utilities for WordPress, and I’ve been disappointed recently that they’ve been inconsistent, and I’ve always wanted to start making a little money doing something I love – so I jumped on that and contacted Mark to express my interest. Today, my first entries have appeared, which I’m very, very excited about. I’m not certain about the exact readership statistics at this point, but I know that the feed shows over 5500 subscribers, which is the largest readership I’ve ever written for. It’s a bit intimidating, really, but I think it’s also going to be a lot of fun. It’s just nice to finally be putting my writing skills to good use. Granted, right now it’s simply making lists, but hey, a guy’s gotta start somewhere, right?
Tags: weblog-tools-collection, WordPress, Writing
Congrats, dude!
It’s always great to get paid for things you’d probably would keep up with anyway. :)
It’s gonna be tough and first, but then it will just flow :)
Yay! Welcome the world of freelance. Hope your new gig treats you well and fairly.
That’s a cool site, never saw it before today. So thanks for the link, and congrats on the gig.
Steve, it definitely is. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.
Thanks for the encouragement, Ajay. Took me awhile to put the themes post together last night, since I had check everything over for sponsored links and such. I’m sure I’ll hit a rhythm with it pretty soon, though. :)
Thanks, Jim. I’m hoping it’s just the first step.
Yeah, it’s a staple in my WordPress dashboard, Eric. I know a lot of people get annoyed with the news feeds there, but I rely on them for fresh content in the WP world. :)
How much ? :)
Congratulations. Nicely written. I guess I’ll have to pay more attention now that I know the guy writing it. ;)
Congratulations, Jim! I hope this is the first of many more gigs to come.
Hey Jim, I thought you mentioned a plugin a few days ago that allows display of Blogroll on its own page… am I mixed up? You know which plugin that might be?
I thought I’d give it a try, as per our ‘minimalism’ discussions. :)
Well, Eric, I don’t remember mentioning a specific plugin. What I’m doing in my case is simply running the ExecPHP plugin, setting up an unnumbered list, and using the wp_list_links tag on the page to show my blogroll there. I’m sure there are plugins out there – I just haven’t taken the time to go find a good one that works with WP 2.2 since I don’t mind playing with PHP code a bit.