Launching the ProBlogger Job Board

Posted by Gary King on September 8, 2007
Categories: business, programming

logo.gifOne of the projects that I’ve been working on is the ProBlogger Job Board, where people and companies can post jobs available for bloggers. It officially launched on August 30th, so I’m a little late with this post, but better late than never!

The project involved doing a complete rewrite of the code, which was originally written in PHP, and rewriting it in Ruby on Rails. The functionality of the application is more or less the same as it was before, except for a few added features that are primarily in the back-end to give Darren an easier way of administering the whole thing. We also updated the design from the old look to adapt the new look of the new ProBlogger design.

One of the primary reasons for doing this project is to give the back-end code a lot more extensibility, which is key in projects where you want to one day expand and improve on. Now that the thing’s written in Rails, there are a ton of possibilities which can be followed for the Job Board, some of which will be explored. So stay tuned for cool, new features to come!

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  1. sie tien Wednesday, October 24 2007 at 3:11 pm CDT #

    love the simplicity and efficiency of the design

  2. Guadagnare Tuesday, October 30 2007 at 10:18 am CDT #

    Gary,

    I know you coded this in Ruby, but can you create a wordpress plugin to use?

    It might be nice to get something like Job-o-matic where you can see also other people Job Board after those you have sold.

    Let me know.

    Francesco

  3. Gary King Tuesday, October 30 2007 at 12:33 pm CDT #

    Guadagnare,

    I don’t really have the time to code this as a WordPress plugin, sorry!

  4. Guadagnare Tuesday, October 30 2007 at 1:01 pm CDT #

    Thanks anyway, if you will have time in the future please let me know.

    Francesco

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  6. ceredigion car Monday, December 3 2007 at 4:30 am CST #

    a plugin for wordpress would be well accepted imo – I would use it on 3 of my blogs.

  7. Marie Friday, December 14 2007 at 7:14 am CST #

    Your job board looks really clean and simple. I’m not a programmer but I’d like to try my hand in CakePHP (that’s the framework my business partners use) for personal projects and come up with something that looks as clean and simple as what you did with the Problogger jobs. :)

  8. Guadagnare Sunday, January 6 2008 at 12:15 pm CST #

    Ciao Gary,

    First of all I wish you Happy New Year.
    It has been a while since you wrote the last post!

    Hope everything is good.
    Take care.
    Francesco

  9. Chad Wednesday, January 23 2008 at 1:14 am CST #

    I’m not a wordpress plugin coder but my friend is very good at it. you can conntact him at admin@linksback.org his name is Eric. Tell him Chad sent you. His website is linksback.org.

  10. Fare Soldi Wednesday, February 6 2008 at 2:44 pm CST #

    Ciao Garry,

    Where are you?

    Hope everything is good!

    Franncesco

  11. David Thursday, February 21 2008 at 11:52 pm CST #

    I would also like to see a WP job board plug-in. The hosted services are nice, but you loose ownership of the company making the listing!

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  13. Sandra Wednesday, April 9 2008 at 4:45 am CDT #

    I love the idea of this site. This has been a very nice sites to find job.

  14. Richard Thursday, May 1 2008 at 7:32 pm CDT #

    Hi Gary – Are you open to and able to sell and configure the jobbing functionality you’ve developed for ProBlogger for other WordPress sites? If so, would you please email me to discuss.

    Many thanks
    Richard

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    wow, that was great post.. thanx for sharing the same…

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    I notice that you haven’t posted anything since September 2007 and there’s also a fatal widget error on your site. Are you still operating this blog?

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  20. Chetan Monday, October 13 2008 at 9:03 am CDT #

    Gary, i had a question.

    Would you be doing the work on making a similar job board for a blog of mine?
    If yes, please mail me what would the charges be etc.

  21. DealerRefresh Saturday, October 18 2008 at 1:33 pm CDT #

    Gary, do you still sell your Job Boards program for WordPress?

  22. Searchig for a Custom Jobboard Tuesday, November 4 2008 at 6:09 pm CST #

    Can anyone refer me to a company or a programmer that can create me a job board? I have been searching the web and have not had much luck.

    I have a project in mind and want to pay a fee for such a project. My name is Greg and I can be reached at frenchsir@yahoo.com

    Thank you in advance for your help,

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  24. Scaricare giochi Friday, February 6 2009 at 3:32 pm CST #

    Can we get a copy of it?

    It would be great to have something like Problogger!

    Fra

  25. Patrick nelson Tuesday, February 17 2009 at 4:22 pm CST #

    I just came accross the job board at problogger and thought that it was some type of affiliate board until I read that it was custom designed. Just wanted to say great job. I know it’s a little late to say this, but still matters.

    thanks

  26. Yang Yang Friday, March 13 2009 at 1:05 am CDT #

    Thanks for the *news*! ;D

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    I notice that you haven’t posted anything since September 2007 and there’s also a fatal widget error on your site. Are you still operating this blog?

  28. Robin Good Wednesday, May 6 2009 at 5:04 am CDT #

    Hi Gary,
    I was wondering what you would advise to any web publisher wanting to go the way of ProBlogger in creating its own JobBoard. Would you recommend a specific tool among the several ones now available online or are you somewhat commercializing your own original solution?

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