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WordPress developer needed to build custom theme for publisher

WordPress developer needed for custom theme rebuild of I Love Manchester We’re looking for an experienced WordPress developer to help rebuild the I Love Manchester website as a custom WordPress theme. I Love Manchester is an independent news, events, culture and city guide platform for Greater Manchester. The live site has years of content, SEO value, advertising placements, membership functionality and a WooCommerce shop. We are not looking for a basic brochure website, a page builder rebuild, or a custom directory/events system built from scratch. We already have a full design pack covering the design system, header, footer, homepage, single post layout and key page layouts, including Directory/place listings and What’s On/events. We need those designs developed into a fast, stable, SEO-friendly WordPress site. Preferred approach Custom WordPress theme ACF Pro / ACF flexible fields / ACF blocks Native WordPress editor for editorial publishing Reusable blocks/templates for landing pages GeoDirectory for places, venues and business listings GeoDirectory Events for events and What’s On WooCommerce for shop MemberPress for membership/subscriptions Yoast SEO for SEO Advanced Ads for advertising placements Cloudflare and Imagify retained Important We want to use reputable, long-standing plugins with good support. GeoDirectory and GeoDirectory Events should be used as the core directory/events system. We do not want this built bespoke from scratch. The developer’s role is to configure, theme and integrate the chosen plugins properly, so places, events, guides and articles work together cleanly. For example: Place pages should show related articles and upcoming events. Event pages should link clearly to the relevant venue/place page. Things to do pages should pull from GeoDirectory Events. Directory/place pages should match the supplied I Love Manchester design system, not look like generic plugin output. News articles should remain standard WordPress posts, with the ability to embed place and event listings where needed. Current setup The live site is ilovemanchester.com. We already have a cloned/staging site on the server and will share access with the chosen developer. The database has recently been cleaned. Main areas of the website News stories and editorial posts Things to do and event listings Directory of places, venues and businesses Membership and member-only content About us, Marketing and Advertising, Out-of-Home, Charity, Awards and other landing pages WooCommerce shop The work may include Reviewing the current staging setup Building a custom WordPress theme from the supplied designs Setting up global styles, typography, colours and reusable components Building templates for posts, categories, tags, authors and search results Building landing page templates and reusable ACF blocks Setting up ACF fields/flexible content where needed Installing/configuring GeoDirectory and GeoDirectory Events Styling GeoDirectory templates to match the design pack Making sure places, events and articles link together sensibly Making sure MemberPress, WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, Advanced Ads, Cloudflare and Imagify continue to work properly Protecting existing URL structure and SEO value Keeping the site fast and lightweight Checking mobile/responsive design Preparing a safe staging-to-live launch plan Providing handover notes for our team Experience needed Strong custom WordPress theme development ACF Pro, flexible fields or ACF blocks Content-heavy publisher, magazine, local guide or directory websites GeoDirectory or similar directory/event plugins SEO, redirects and URL preservation WooCommerce MemberPress or other membership plugins Advanced Ads or ad placement logic would be useful Strong responsive front-end skills Performance-conscious approach Comfortable working on staging without affecting live site Please include Examples of similar custom WordPress sites Examples of ACF/custom theme work GeoDirectory/GeoDirectory Events experience MemberPress, WooCommerce, Yoast SEO and Advanced Ads experience How you would approach the build Any risks you can see Suggested first phase Availability Day rate or fixed-price estimate We may start with a smaller paid phase before committing to the full rebuild. This could include reviewing the staging site and design pack, confirming the architecture, setting up GeoDirectory/GeoDirectory Events, and building one article template, one archive template, one landing page template, one reusable ACF block, one place template and one event template. Please do not send a generic proposal. We need someone who understands the difference between a good-looking WordPress site and a proper publishing platform.

I have written a poem, I want videos played throughout.

I have just this evening written a poem, I still need to revise it slightly, but I would ideally love someone who could compile a 3:29 video with background music 'Sand Drawing - Judah Earl'. I have read it out loud with this song playing quietly in the background, I am no video editor, but with weeks of planning and software and time - which I do not have - I may be able to pull something off. Alas, I require the help of a professional. I have worked out roughly, each video needs to be 3-5 seconds long. I don't know whether it's easier to compile them all at 5 seconds and then shorten the clip to match the words? I have details below the scenes I would love to have based on the chronological order of the poem. The one caveat, is ideally I would love to make all the clips my own, using me, my friends and family. However, that will take much longer. Therefore, I thought, if I can pay someone to get the whole video created, with the text and timing done to a tee, then I could ideally work with you again to revise some if not all of the video clips and swap them out with my own. How does that sound? I don't know the price, might have to be an hourly basis. It would also be lovely if you have your own video footage, to make it personable, otherwise stock footage is fine. As I say, with potential revisions done later. Video Scene Order: 1- A man sat quietly on a bench in the background, looking somewhat sad, with hustle and bustle, crowds of people in the foreground passing by as he looks around. 2- A man or woman praying in a church, chapel, then looking out the stained glass window at the end. 3 - two friends hugging and talking 4 - A Mother and Father dancing or grandparents 5 - A man crying looking to the skies, cloudy grey skies, close up of the eyes, filled with sadness - this could be a couple of videos 6 - Sky scenes, clouds, rain, sunsets in the sky, birds flying, a few montage scenes 5-8 seconds 7 - Flying birds, like a murmuration of birds would be wonderful 8 - Crying person with great emotion, letting it all out, saying goodbye perhaps 9 - someone skimming with a stone, the stone disappears - farewell. another drop in the ocean so to speak. 10 - Traveller, explorer, filmed from behind, with a rugged backpack, climbing a hill, mountain, coast path, adventure themed, moving on, going forth with great strength. 11 - Young couple kissing, intimate, young love 12 - Older couple embracing, long lasting love 13 - Seasons Montage - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. - beautiful. 14 - Clocking spinning, turning, large railway clock, maybe a time lapse of people at times quare station flying by - hinting time flying by. 15 - Someone thinking, deep in thought, pondering questions, maybe sat somewhere quiet. 16 - Something to portray gladness and sadness - good times and bad times, laughter and difficult times. 17 - Workout video, a man or woman pushing through the pain, close up shot in their eyes lifting heavy weight or at the gym, showing power, strength and resilience. 18 - Heartbreak, someone alone by a tree, in a park, relationship ended, sad tears, something to show the world falling around them, maybe leaves falling from a tree as a secondary video. 19 - Clear, calm seas, a beautiful shot of calm waves and maybe a sunset or a whale breaching. 20 - Trees blowing in the wind, shot looking up through the trees. 21 - Moonlight, a breeze at night, a night time scene, maybe the night sky and a shooting star afterwards. 22 - Sunrise, the most beautiful sunrise shot, maybe even with someone in it, looking at the sun as it rises. 23 - A man - me eventually - sat in a meadow, a lovely field, an old English Oak Tree, a wooden field gate, something such as this, looking into the sunset, the shot filmed from behind, contemplating life and lost in thought. End Scene. Thanks p.s. I don't have bags of money, but this is so special to me, I want it to be the first video on my new Instagram account, dedicated to my film making and poetry, reigniting my old self.

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Build SEO Landing Page for Accountancy Website (WordPress)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION We are an established UK accountancy practice expanding our brand My Office Accountant (myofficeaccountant.co.uk) into a national online service. We need an experienced WordPress developer/implementer to build out a structured library of SEO landing pages in three tiers: Tier 1 — Industry pages (25 pages). e.g. /accountants-for/contractors, /accountants-for/landlords, /accountants-for/ecommerce Tier 2 — Location pages (25 pages). e.g. /locations/manchester, /locations/birmingham, /locations/enfield Tier 3 — Intersection pages (approx. 15-25 pages). e.g. /accountants-for/contractors/manchester Important: we supply the content. Every page's copy, title tag, meta description, H1 and FAQ text will be provided by us in a structured content document, built from master templates we already have. Your job is implementation, not copywriting. Do not generate, spin or AI-write page content — any submission containing content we did not supply will be rejected at milestone review. Scope of work Reusable page template(s). Build one flexible landing-page template (or one per tier if cleaner) in the site's existing theme/page builder, matching our current branding — hero with dual CTA buttons, tick-list strip, content sections, FAQ accordion, CTA block, internal-links footer. Mobile-responsive, fast-loading (target 90+ mobile PageSpeed on template pages). Page build. Populate all ~30–33 pages from our content document into the templates, with correct URL slugs exactly as specified. Technical SEO per page: title tags, meta descriptions, single H1, correct heading hierarchy, FAQPage schema on FAQ blocks, breadcrumb schema on intersection pages, Service/Organization schema sitewide, canonical tags, all pages added to the XML sitemap. Internal linking exactly as mapped in our content document (industry ↔ location ↔ intersection three-way pattern), plus navigation/footer entries where specified. Site plumbing: ensure clean URL structure (no pattern mixing), 301 redirects if any existing pages are superseded, no orphan pages, submit updated sitemap in Google Search Console. Handover: a short screen-recorded walkthrough (10–15 min) showing how we add the next wave of pages ourselves using the template, plus documentation of any plugins/settings added. Milestones & payment M1 (25%): Template(s) approved on staging — one fully built sample page per tier, matching brand and passing mobile PageSpeed check. M2 (35%): All Tier 1 + Tier 2 pages built, schema validating (Google Rich Results Test), internal links in place. M3 (30%): Tier 3 pages built; full crawl check (Screaming Frog or similar) showing no broken links, duplicate titles or missing meta; sitemap submitted. M4 (10%): Handover video + documentation delivered. Requirements — please confirm each in your proposal Proven WordPress experience (or confirm ability on our platform after viewing the site) with landing-page/programmatic-SEO builds — include 2–3 live examples of multi-page SEO builds you've implemented Comfortable with schema markup and validating it Experience with Elementor / WPBakery / Gutenberg (state which — we'll confirm what the site uses) Basic Search Console familiarity (sitemap submission) UK English; UK working-hours overlap preferred but not essential You will be given limited-role site access (Editor/custom role) — not full admin — and staging access where available To apply, please answer these three questions (proposals that don't will be skipped) Link to one multi-page SEO/landing-page system you built: what was your role, and how many pages? How would you implement FAQPage schema on a repeatable template so non-developers can add pages later? What's your realistic timeline for M1 and M2, and your total fixed price? What we provide Full content document (all copy, metadata, slugs, FAQ text, link map) Brand assets (logo, colours, fonts) and access to the existing site One point of contact with fast turnaround on approvals (24–48h) What this is NOT Not a redesign of the whole site (template must fit existing branding) Not a copywriting job Not ongoing SEO/link-building (may be discussed separately after delivery)