Thread: Questions from a complete novice

Questions from a complete novice

Just a few questions, thank you!


We want to move an already existing job board to your software. Will this be a problem and can we prepare the job roller site before making it live?

Do we need to pay for a web host before we can begin to set up the site?

Do Job Roller take any percentage of revenue we generate from job advertisements.

In your opinion, will we be able to easily re-create our site via Job Roller. We know it won't be identical however we are trying to create a very similar feel.

1. Firstly you'll want to make sure that JobRoller offers the features you're looking for in a theme/for your site, you can find this information on the main JobRoller page. You can certainly put the site in maintenance mode by way of a plugin if you wish to work on it before making it public.

2. Yes, web hosting/domain names are separate to the JobRoller purchase, and you need to have an instance of WordPress installed in order to use JobRoller. On a related note, you can read about our WordPress Hosting promotion here.

3. No it does not.

4. If out of the box, JobRoller gives you the features and layout you're happy with then yes, however this is in a very general sense given that I know nothing about your site. Thanks.

RE

Thank you, that's really helpful.

Can I install wordpress without a host? Just so we can purchase Job Roller and get started on building the site?

As mentioned, our current site is up and running (has been for two years) so we don't want to change hosts until we are ready to go live with the job roller site.

Essentially, we'd like to start work on building the Job Roller site then flip all the domains over when work is complete.

Would this be possible?

Many thanks

You need a hosting provider on which to install WordPress because you can't install custom themes on one of the free WordPress.com blogs (if that's what you're asking?). If you were installing WordPress locally, then that's a different story again (and the theme itself may require additional modification in order to function correctly on such a setup). So if you already have a hosting account which has the capacity to install WordPress on it as well to build the site without publishing it then this is also a possibility. Thanks.

JobRoller

Thank you.
Lastly, we currently use Mailchimp for our newsletters. Would we be able to continue to use Mailchimp with JobRoller?

There's no specific mailchimp integration for the theme, so connecting these may require use of a plugin and/or additional customization on your part. Thanks.