Client: GraniteCountryStyle.com

GraniteCountryStyle.com a leading fabricator of granite counter tops in southwestern Ontario needed a quality website that would represent their company in a professional and credible manner. Generating more business leads for the company in a cost effective way, especially during the slow season, was also on the agenda.

• HTML, CSS, PHP
• WordPress Powered CMS
• Get a Quote Form
• Contact Form
• Portfolio Gallery
• Materials Gallery
• Blog

If you are a WordPress Freelancer looking for a job or small gigs, where do you go to find them? Let’s compare the most popular online freelance marketplaces and niche freelance sites that are offering thousands of freelance jobs for WordPress expert freelancers just like you.

oDesk - WordPress Jobs

With over 744 WordPress Jobs available at oDesk marketplace (at time of writing ). The oDesk freelance marketplace is one of the big guns in the outsourcing and freelancing industry. It claims over 500,000 registered service providers and a total projects value of over $140m USD. Over 1.5 million hours of work were carried out in the last quarter meaning Odesk can lay claim to providing full time employment to the equivalent of almost 3,000 people – and that doesn’t take into account, the army of fixed price project workers who generate in excess of $1.5 Million USD per month through the oDesk marketplace.

Elance - WordPress Jobs

Find work deliver results and get paid on Elance like other WordPress freelancers are doing already. There are currently over 400 WordPress projects waiting for you on Elance marketplace. Who is Elance? Launched in May 1998, Elance is one of the founding fathers in the online freelancing and outsourcing sector. Employers can choose from over 152,508 freelance professionals providing services. This provides access to a varied pool of talent able to meet the needs of even the most demanding clients. The pricing policy may seem expensive, but when everything is taken into consideration, it shapes up quite well compared to other sites which can take as much as 15% in commissions and offer little in return.

Freelancer - WordPress Jobs

You will find over 178 WordPress jobs on the Freelancer marketplace. As of February 2010, jobs paid through the site amounted to $50 million. Freelancer.com is a favorite platform for qualified professionals from countries with lower scale salaries, for whom the fees charged at some other sites can be a turnoff. Its also a favorite for those in Europe and North America that want their job done on the cheap. Boasting one of the widest varieties of online job category listings, Freelancer hit 1.5 million users on April 9th, 2010.

Pick.IM - WordPress Jobs

Launched in April 2010! The Pick.im is refreshingly different to the mainstream freelancing sites. The homepage is a simple form which asks two basic questions:

• 1. What type of freelancer do you want?
• 2. What is your budget?

When you click on “find a freelancer” button, you will be presented with a selection of freelancers that meet your requirements and can review their profiles and contact them. This unique concept and ultra simple user interface is a free of charge service for freelancers and employers and provides a unique opportunity for freelancers to market their services.

Guru - WordPress Jobs

Guru marketplace boasts over $100,000,0000 in earnings, and calls on freelancers to be one in a million and not one of millions. There were 108 WordPress Job opportunities for freelancers, last time we checked. Being one of the oldest hands and one of the biggest fish in a growing freelance marketplaces pond, its definitely worth to check out Guru for available freelance WordPress projects.

ScriptLance – WordPress Jobs

Based out of Canada, Scriptlance is one of the most popular and dynamic sites for technically savvy freelancers like WordPress programmers and web developers. This freelancer haven doesn’t charge any fees to register. Over 100 new projects are circulated each day, most of them related to web development, which means plenty of WordPress jobs. This site has some of the lowest fees in the industry and provides users with escrow payment options to help projects get completed smoothly. No recurring fees, no project posting fees. Freelancers must simply pay a commission on acceptance of their bid on a project.

RentaCoder – WordPress Jobs

RentaCoder is one of the top WordPress programming job markets on the web, rentacoder currently connects 285,000 Software coders with 137,000 Software buyers. There are currently over 2,700 open jobs on the site. This is one of the safest places to work, as the use of the escrow system is mandatory for every single project.

GoFreelance – WordPress Jobs

One of the longest established freelancing marketplaces around and over 60,000 unique visitors per month, this site has a very friendly design and interface. With a top ranking on Google and featured on CNN and the Wall Street Journal, it is also one of the biggest freelancer markets. Without registering you can’t see how much work is available, nor what type of work they have listed, this makes it a bit of a gamble compared to the more open marketplaces. Perhaps worth trying as a buyer, but I would be reluctant to pay out hard earned money without seeing what work is on offer.

iFreelance – WordPress Jobs

With a catchy domain name and a very different business model – it doesn’t charge any commission on project fees – iFreelance appears to be an interesting alternative to bigger players such as oDesk and Elance. The site’s marketing pitch is that, since they do not rely on commissions, communication is much more open there than at the bulk of competing online job marketplaces; and you will always pay the same to use the site, no matter how much you’re making.

Jobs.WordPress.net – WordPress Jobs

Jobs.WordPress.Net attracts over 30,000 visitors per month. It is a Job Board that specializes in publishing strictly WordPress related positions. Employer’s job postings are displayed for a period of 21 days or if they decide to take them off, whichever comes first.

People Per Hour – WordPress Jobs

With a cool interface and a good marketing strategy, UK based Peopleperhour.com is the only serious freelance marketplace in the UK. Launched in late 2007 the site has already posted billings around the £8M mark and its growing steadily with high levels of repeat business. The site offers high quality projects to its pool of high quality providers. PeopleperHour.com has thousands of open jobs in a wide variety of freelancing categories.

Lime Exchange – WordPress Jobs

LimeExchange is a part of Lime Labs LLC, the same people behind the hugely popular Lime Wire P2P music downloading network. With $5,680,500 worth of Jobs Posted, 63,814 Freelancers from 181 Countries on file, and over 20,000 unique visitors per month, LimeExchange is an established player among freelance job markets. The site has over 5,000 active projects available for bidding, putting it well up there in the top 10 freelancing sites in terms of buyer activity. A strong management team, a powerful ‘engine’ and strong PR efforts make LimeExchange one of the best up and coming sites.

WooThemes – WordPress Jobs

Become a WooThemes Worker! The makers of WooThemes have built up a dedicated group of official WooThemes modifiers. These Affiliated Woo Workers take care of all the modification work for customers of WooThemes WordPress Templates at a fixed price. These guys & girls know these themes inside / out – so if you work with them, you’re sure to get a beautiful, unique-looking version of WooThemes with all sorts of bells and whistles.

Templatic – WordPress Jobs

Want to make some money by helping people customize their WordPress themes? Then Templatic Customization Jobs is the place to go. It is a place that connects web professionals and templatic customers who wish to customize themes to their particular need.

Posting theme customization here is absolutely FREE and is only available to templatic customers. Not a templatic customer yet? Purchase a theme for your next web project.

It’s Too Easy Selling Online When You Have a Website Like This!

If you want to start selling stuff online on your own e-Commerce site with WordPress, its never been easier, thanks to the latest e-Commerce theme release by Templatic. Now that the barrier of entry to selling online have been lowered even further, it begs this question about the online store you have been thinking of starting. Should you start today, or wait until tomorrow when someone else does?

Yes, take the right decision. The recipe is surprisingly simple, buy this theme now, fill it with products people want to buy and start selling immediately. Create your online shop today using this theme.

e-Commerce Theme – Shoppers View

e-Commerce Theme – Administration View

Standard e-Commerce Features

The features in this e-commerce theme are well balanced and not overbloated. Templatic included only those that are must-haves for a well functional e-commerce website.

• One Click Auto Install
• Usability
• Different modes of Shopping Cart
  - Shopping Cart Mode | Digital Store Mode | Catalog Mode
• Manage Products
• Order Management
• Shipping Options
• Multiple Payment Gateways
• Manage Tax
• Grid view / List view
• Guest Checkout
• User registration
• Bulk Product Upload (csv)
• Coupon Codes
• Product Images
• Affiliate Module
• Blog

Best Real Estate Theme for WordPress! Seriously.

Before we take you on a tour, let us make a statement, that pound for pound, dollar for dollar, we think this is the best real estate theme for WordPress currently on the market. Released by Templatic, this real estate theme not only looks like a million bucks, but also has all the necessary features that you’d want in a real estate website, without overwhelming you with complexity and unnecessary features. The professionally structured, elegant design is the best out there. If you want to know what the buzz is all about, take a look below at what this WordPress theme has to offer.

Real Estate Theme – Features Tour

The homepage lists a dynamically generated slideshow of featured properties submitted by the users. The multi-category search is one of it’s kind where users can select multiple criteria and search properties as per their requirement. Multiple widget ready areas lets you add any widget of your choice in the sidebar, the footer or at the middle of the page area.

Once the user clicks search, as per their search criteria, they are presented with a list of properties for easy selection of properties of their choice. The user may switch view either to grid list or, thumb gallery view as per their preference. Not only that, the users may even add the property to favorite so they can check the property later from their member area dashboard. Admin may display different sidebar on this page and add widgets of their choice. This theme is full of custom, dynamic widgets such as top agents, finance calculator, user login, advertise blocks, testimonials and so on.

The property details page is where users can see the actual property in more detail, has been structured with much care. Property Lister may add as many photos as they wish and those photos will automatically be attached and displayed in a photo gallery slideshow. The Rest of the details are displayed elegantly for maximum user experience. The agent profile and contact details are displayed so the visitor can get all info about the property being sold. Seller may contact the agent directly by filling out a simple form. The email will be sent directly to the person who listed the property.

Google map is automatically generated and displayed on the page based on the property address the user enters while submitting a property. Administrator of the site may also choose to list similar/related properties at the end of the page based on the criteria of their choice.

Another cool feature of this real estate theme is that visitors can submit and edit listings without realising that they are on a WordPress site. That is because this theme completely hides the WordPress backend to property submitting users. They can log in quickly and edit properties or may continue to submit new properties, all on the front-end. The new image upload feature also lets you select and upload unlimited images, which the theme will re-size dynamically on the fly, so you don’t have to worry about cropping. The order of property photos, can also be sorted once the property is submitted. How cool is that?

The Person who submits a property on your site automatically will have an agent profile created and the public / private profile of the users is shown on the site. User who are logged in, may check their shortlisted properties and manage their own listings (edit/delete/renew).

Site visitors may also view a list of all the agents who published properties on your site. Sortable by “All”, “Alphabetically” or by the Agent with “most properties” listed on your site. If potential home buyers wish to know more about an agent, they may click on the agent’s profile link and see the complete details of the listing agent.

What payment methods for listings are integrated into this theme? You may enable any or all the payment methods mentioned below. Currently there are 7 ways to accept payments including Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, 2Checkout, WorldPay … Accepting money gets easier. Doesn’t it?

Why Buy This Theme?

Because this is the best wordpress RealEstate theme available. You have elegant design + unmatchable features and functionality – everything built-in, no plugins required. All features included were chosen very thoughtfully, so you are not overwhelmed with complexity and the code is not bloated. Only the necessary features were included with focus on user experience and administrator’s easy of use so you can monetize your real estate site at it’s best.

Property Listings Website That Works Right out of the Box!

Property Brokers can create their own property listings site easily with WordPress. Brought to you by the Themeforest Marketplace, this WordPress theme is a perfect combination of minimalism and elegant professional design that gives your listings the competitive advantage.

Realist Theme Features

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  Smart Searching

  The user will be able to filter his search by location, bedrooms, bathrooms, price and whether he/she wants to rent or buy. They can use all search fields or a combination of just a few and the theme will show accurate results.

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  Featured Properties Carousel

  On the homepage you have the ability to display a series of properties through a fading property carousel. You can edit how many you want to show, if you want to show the latest properties or a random selection. This is all set within the theme options panel.

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  Automatic Image Attachment

  No need to get the image URL or resize your images to fit in the correct places, it’s all done for you! All you do is upload the property images using the WordPress up-loader and the theme will take care of the rest.

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  Contact Form

  The user has the ability to contact you about a certain property on every property listing. You’ll receive an email stating who it’s from, the message they wrote and what property they are enquiring about.

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  Google Maps

  Google maps are automatically generated based on the property location entered. You don’t have to do anything but enter in the location when creating the property post. Each property will have a map of the location, all done automatically for you.

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  No Custom Fields Required

  As an experienced WordPress theme user, you may dislike when you have to fill out multiple custom fields. This is not the case with Realist! When editing a post, you already have the fields ready and labeled, in a custom write panel. You can easily input how many beds, bathrooms, garages etc that property has plus more!

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  5 Color Schemes

  Easily change the color scheme to 1 of 5 colors within the theme options.