I am sorry you've had difficulty finding a reputable designer. As with any industry, there are good and bad players. Fortunately, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of skilled, ethical, and reliable developers out there. You just need to go where they hang out. When you say, "none are able to...
I don't know any plugins with that specific feature, but I did want to mention this after reading your description. You can target specific pages/posts with CSS, so you can limit text wrap to your about page. You just need to know the page ID. WordPress includes a page specific class in the body ...
You are right. Any updates on site will require you to think about SEO so there is no lost traffic here is a QA wordpress you can use http://www.designwall.com/wordpress/plugins/dw-question-answer/ Also this is good seo plugin as well https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/
You could probably use any Wordpress theme that had a design and feel you like. I would use a good events plugin such as Calendarize It. That plugin makes it easy to set up a nice calendar of events. You can make specific calendars for each country, category and city. They could view them all on ...
Studio Press has a plethora of great templates, including magazine style.
You are comparing apples to oranges. WordPress is a platform, Ruby is a web framework. If you are looking to develop a completely custom platform, you could certainly do it in Rails, but you could also write it in PHP (like WordPress). I'd do some digging and see what is out there for pre-made...
Check out these WordPress plugins: https://wordpress.org/plugins/shardb/ and https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-db/ Good luck!
There is no right answer for this, but definitely, you need to have a 'hustle' aggressive approach when you're launching something new. That means to dedicate some time to get in front of the right people. You can start by joining Facebook groups in your category, going to meetups (as a host an...
Some options off the top of my head: > Google Alerts and pick from there, to do it manually. > If you have specific source sites in mind, you could use iframes (though I would consider this "ugly". > Facebook widgets are used in Wordpress to pull FB content over. Using that as the beginning of...