Plugin installing work as a freelancer

Plugin install is categorized as simple or easy freelancing job. You may ask why? The answer is, it’s really easy to perform. You will not be required to do a whole bunch of work. The website will be already set up. The client will ask you of a definite task that can be done by a plugin. Most of the people don’t know which plugin would work for their specific task at hand. So they go to freelancing sites and asks someone to do the work. It basically consist of
1.Understanding what the client wants to accomplish.
2.Searching for a plugin that would accomplish the task
3.Installing the plugin on the website.

That’s it! You won’t have to actually do the task, you will find a way to do the task easily.

Now most of the new freelancers don’t know how to install a plugin. In this article I’ll show how to do the above steps in an imaginary situation. You need to keep in mind that there are a lot of types of websites out there, the plugins are available for all types of website too. They are chunk of codes that integrate with the website’s core codes to utilize a new type of facility. Most of the people that wants some plugin install in freelancing sites are looking for wordpress or joomla plugins. I’ll show you how to get a wordpress plugin installed in a wordpress website as per the clients demand.

Let’s say the client wants a plugin or system that would insert and advertisement inside each and every article of his website. The situation is this
1.Understanding what the client wants to accomplish: He has a website, there is a lot of articles there. He has an advertisement code, he wants to show the advertisement in every article of his website. It is possible without any code by manually inserting the code in every article of the site. But it is a tedious work. So he needs a way around to manually inserting the code.
2.Searching for a plugin that would accomplish the task: Look for the website type, if it’s a wordpress website, search in the wordpress plugin directory. Or you can directly search in any search engine. Include these word in the search keywords : ad on every article wordpress . Voila! The results that will be shown will most likely have a lot of plugins. Just read the description of the plugins. Find out which will be most suitable for the client.
3.Installing the plugin on the website: Once you find the appropriate one, download it. It will be most cases a zipped file. Then login to the clients website, look for any buttons inside the control panel marked “Plugins”, and in there look for “install” button. There would be an option of uploading the plugin. Browse to the plugin and click on install or upload. Then you may need to activate the plugin too.
In this case, the client will most likely want you to insert the code too. Just do as the description of the plugin said.
Leave any of your questions in the comments stream.
Tags:plugin install,freelancing job about plugin,look for freelancing job plugin install,how to install a plugin

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Writing work in freelancer

Writing jobs are really easy for those who have the tiniest amount of creativity. It means you can produce good writings yourself. It may be inspired by some article elsewhere, but it’s not bad. Inspiration is the first step to creativity. You can not follow the original concept to the whole length though, you have to come up with your stuff too.
The type of writing works that are found in freelancing jobs are:
1.Typical academic writing
2.Blog post
3.Forum post
4.Facebook comment
5.Review writing
6.Storybook or novel writing
7.Shadow writing or ghost writing
8.Idea writing
9.Seo article optimization
10.Report writing.
11.Description writing
All of them are fairly easy, only the topic seo article optimization may be confusing to be found here. But it’s not all that bad. It’ll be clear in a while.
1.Typical academic writing: There are a lot of students who need their assignment done in a short time, but it’s not possible for them to make up the best of the subject. Meanwhile, you may be a freelancer who is proficient in that topic or subject. As a result, you can help him out by doing the assignment. Both of you would use the internet to find useful information, but it’ll be easier for you as you know which information to look for, as you have already done this before.
Again it’s not necessary for you to know the topic by heart. It’s known to all academic writings vary in quality by the factor of presentation style. You can do almost any type of assignment, using your skills of knowing how to do an academic assignment and the searching the internet. Unless it is a really hard math or physics problem, you’re up for the job.
2.Blog post: It’s a common knowledge that one has to update his blog or website regularly. But these days many people run a number of blogs and maintaining all of them is not possible. So they look for a writer who would produce it for them. Don’t worry, no one will be asking you to do a very hard post. Generally you will be provided with some keywords and then asked to write about them. The important thing is the keyword of the article, in easy words, it’s the main topic of the article. You will be asked to write upto 500 words in the article. It’s not that hard, you just need to brainstorm your ideas, think about the keyword, research a little and you are ready to write.
3.Forum post: A forum stays alive for it’s users communication. There are many ask and answer forums, and you may be hired to answer other peoples questions. The forum may be a hosting support forum, tech support forum where a lot of trivial questions are asked daily. Like what is the nameserver of this hosting is a typical question in hosting forums. And does this phone has 3g support may be a question in a tech forum. You won’t find it hard to answer these questions. Most people just can’t find them and ask them in a minute of searching, even though the answer is right there.
4.Facebook comment:It’s an easy job, as you can guess from the name of it. Someone is writing something important, or at least important to him and he needs like and comments or real people. He can hire you for your expertise!
5.Review writing: It’s like a books review writing or a tv show or movie review writing. You need to read some of the review of this type and you can write them too. Just don’t be too much strict, mix it up a little. Report and description writing are similar works.
6.Story writing: Some one will mention a genre of the story and you will write it. Like teen romance and fantasy novels are very popular now a days. So they will ask you to write one. They may also provide the plot or gist of the story, you’ll need to expand it to a novel with good quality. You must be familiarized with the recent best sellers to be skilled for this.
7.Shadow or ghost writing: When they ask you to write a story book which they will publish as their own, with out any mention of you whatsoever is called shadow or ghostwriting.
8.Idea writing: It’s the type of job which will ask you how to renovate an idea or invent one.
9.Seo article optimization: It’s the search engine optimized writing task. But most of the time you already have the article, you just need to make it polished for the search engines. Make the desired level of keyword density, write upto that length and other seo work. It’s easy as the article will be already there, you just need to say it in a different way. It’s also called article rewriting.
Tags:freelance article writing,skill,ghost writing,seo article writing for freelance,review writing for freelance,academic writing for freelance,forum posting for freelance, facebook freelancing, story writing as freelancer.

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Which skills for freelancing

Which skill may be of use in freelancing?
If you are new to the whole freelancing concept, then at first you have to figure out which skill you should be using to do your online work. It may be a lot easier if you just try a simple assessment of the jobs posted on various freelancing websites. Many people sign up  a lot of hope of doing freelancing income, but just after signing in, they are faced with a question of which job is doable by them. They can guess the type of work they will be required to do when they sign up, as every freelancing site has an option to choose which skills the freelancer will deal with when signing up. Even that time it is not possible to fully understand the works. Only after browsing the required jobs posted by various people, they start to feel like freelancing should be done only by the professionals, who have a lot of knowledge on coding, academics and internet. After being dishearten they sign out and never come back.
It is the intention of this article to get you familiarized with the type of works found in freelancing sites, the skills associated with them, and how to start your first freelancing journey by mastering them.
First of all, you need to be sure which type of work you’ll be doing. When you are completely new, then you should start with the easier ones. I’ve made a list of jobs according to their difficulties:
Easy:
1. Writing articles
2. Plug-in install
3.Other easy stuff
Medium:
1.Website install(any kind of script)
2.Editing website or website template
3.Making template from scratch
4.Logo or banner designing
5.Conversion work(like pdf to epub)
6.Moving website between hosts
7.Virtual assistant
Hard:
1.New website development
2.Writing programs
3.Making apps for mobile
4.Making software or bots
5.Seo optimization
As you can see, most of them are in the medium category, and even if you don’t know how to do any of them, here’s the good news, you can learn to develop the skills required to do them. And when I say learning, many of you may think it’s the hardest part, but learning to install any website script is a real easy job, the difference is some choose to learn it, very easily too, and other thinks that it’s too hard for them to learn. If you are willing to learn, you can go upto the medium category skills and earn utilizing them. Most of the skills are very easy to develop when you have some kind of easy and clear to understand documentation. This site will provide just the same. Leave any of your questions in the comments stream.
Tags:skills,freelancing,learning,training,developing,easy freelancing works,learn to freelance,tutorials on freelanong,tips on freelancing,how to start freelancing

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Withdrawing to moneybookers,from there to my bank

My money was processed to moneybookers from freelancer on the given date.I at once started to transfer the money from moneybookers to my bank account in Bangladesh.I had already selected Mutual Trust Bank in moneybookers,and my address was verified before.So I withdrew the money.It was processed in the moneybookers side that day,but I received the money after eight day in Bangladesh.One of the clerks at the Mutual Trust Bank called me and asked me what was the remittance source.I told  them it was freelancing and they deposited the money on my bank account.The next day I went to the atm and got my money.

I knew beforehand that Dutch Bangla Bnak Limited cuts 20$ from the tolat money,as they use a via bank or middle bank.Another bamk,Brac Bank had started cutting 15$ from December 2012 .So I decided to take a chance with Mutual Trust Bank ,and they did’t cut a penny from the original money!

Most freelancers in Bangladesh use Brac or DBBL to transfer money,and they are very angry with the cutting of 15/20 dollars from the total money.I’m glad I did my research online and decided to go with Mutual Trust Bank.

Same is the case in many other countries.My advice is don’t just select the most obvious bank, do a little research first.

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Conversation with the buyer:

This is my reply to when I buyer asked what I would need to start my work

  “ I'll need access to your joomla backend user/pass.and also to your hosting cPanel user/pass.i'll first install a new 2.5 and then finish the conversion and replace the old one with the new”

So be clear about what you need to start the work, if possible state the reason why you need the information too.

After I had finished the work I sent him this message

 

   “hello site is done.i copied old articles and categories and introduced a new category frontpage for the featured posts.you did not provide any template so i got one.password is as you said”

 

As you can see I mentioned the using of new template here. Reply from the buyer was

    “The template to be used should have been the one already there! This was an UPGRADE between versions, not a re-design of the site. Hopefully you kept backup copies of what was there previously?”

 

I replied saying that in joomla its not possible to keep the old template while updating to a new version and I wouldnt change it deliberately .Joomla uses templates based on its versions.a template for 1.0 will simply not work in 2.5.I also assured him that I did keep backup of the old site.I also suggested some similar black joomla templates.

Note that I did assure him of his question about backup.

Then I tried to change the template to a 2.5 version, which was failed. I asked him if it was possible to use just another template. He replied why the template was so important. 

     “As far as the template is concerned, the game itself is about Outer Space, so images like stars and planets. This is how it looked in v1.0. Could you possibly duplicate that for an additional fee? If not, that's OK, but I'll have to have someone else do that work. Let me know, please! Thanks.”

 

I started working on the template from a new angle and gave him the update

    “ okay i deleted the template folder and reuploaded it,now its working.i hope you are satisfied with the site “

 

I finished the template as far as I could but he didn’t reply and the job was not stated finished in freelancer site.So I waited for 2 days and asked him

      “is everything alright?im kind of waiting for the payment. “

 

Being a good man that he is, the buyer replied

           “ I'm going to need to get someone to re-work the original template in order to satisfy my customer, but I appreciate your attempt at it.”

 

       “ Would it be possible to zip the files from the old template so I can pass them along to whoever eventually re-creates it?Thanks.”

 

I told him the way I backuoed his site it’s still possible to revert to the old one anytime and use the old template to upgrade.

      “your old site is still there,renamed folder "joomlax",including the mysql database.and the template is there too.one can just rename the folder to "joomla" and upload the mysql db to see the old site.i'll send you the old template now”

And I also sent him the old template

 

    After one day he replied

    “I just sent you $22.50 in a milestone I had created previously, so please delete this invoice and send a revised one for the balance due which is $7.50. Thanks!”

 

Now the milestone was created at first when I started the work but it was not released, so I replied

   “ okay i just edited and sent you a 7.50 4INVOICE.ALSO I'VE REQUESTED THE 22.5 MILESTONE TO BE"RELEASED"”

 

Then there was this confusing conversation

      “I thought I released that milestone payment yesterday, but today it looks like it's not. But when I attempted to release it, it first said unavailable, and then had it broken into two parts - a $7.50 and a $15.00. So is that the $7.50 you just invoiced (and I paid) or is the original $22.50 milestone milestone broken into two parts? I'm SOOO confused!

 

I guess the question is this - how much have you received from me in total so far?”

My reply was

       “i've received 15$ in milestone,but my account is showing 17.50$,this is confusing!anyway,i was charged 5$ by freelancer,so at best i'll receive 25$ from you.you need to release 7.50$ milestone and i'll have 17.50+7.50=25$ in total.thank you

also can you mark the project done or completed?thank you”

The job was then officially finished.

Then I encountered the 5$ problem. The help I asked from him was answered generously .

       “ hello,there has been a problem,i was hoping you could help me.I now have 25$ in my account,the lowest amount I can withdraw to mooneybookers is 30$.So I can not withdraw this 25$.And also,I can not bid on any new project as freelancer is saying I have 0 bids left.To get to bid on new projects,I need to pay .50$ from my moneybooker account to freelancer,which would not be a problem if I could move the 25$ to moneybooker in the first place.Can you help me in this situation?I need 5$ more in my freelancer.com acc to move the total of 30$ to moneybooker and then pay freelancer 50 cent to bid on new projects.Hoping to hear from you”

 

The buyer replied

       “Sure - you went above and beyond the scope of the work trying to fix the template for me, so I've sent a $5 bonus payment to you.”

 

Next I ran into the same kind of problem and sent him this

      “ hello,sorry to bother you again.i am having the same problem again.today i accidentally clicked on "take an exam"and it cost me 5$.had i known it,i would have never clicked.anyway,my balance is again 25$.i'm very much ashamed to ask you,can you help me again”

 This ends the conversation. He didn’t reply anymore.The problem was solved though, which you know by now.

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Problem with withdrawing the money again

In freelancer there are many exam taking process, in which they give an exam with an amount of fee and upgrades my profile with the result.This is good for skill upgrade.

I had 30$ in my account and was waiting for it to be withdrawn to moneybookers.As a rule the first withdraw from freelancer takes some time.That is when the problem caused.

I accidentally clicked on “Basic English” exam,which cost me 5$ instantly.There was no “Are you sure you want to pay 5$ for this exam?” or any kind of confirmation.They just deducted 5$ from my account and presented me with the exam.

I was very very broken hearted.It was a mistake from my part,and now I can’t withdraw my money.I’ll have to wait for my next job.

I did not take the exam.I was not in the right mood for an exam.And honestly I felt cheated.They should’ve asked a confirmation before they took my 5$.You have to be careful too.

I asked my buyer for help againThis time he didn’t respond.He must’ve thought I was asking money again as he gave me money before.And I was like milking him.I’m not complaining against him.It was normal for him to suspect that.

Then I had an idea.What about asking freelancer to refund the money,as I haven’t yet taken the exam?This was part of my mail sent to them.

Refund exam fee

Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:52 AM

To: support@freelancer.com

username:……..

I had 30$ in my account and was waiting for it to be transferred to

moneybooker site.I accidentally clicked on an "English Exam buy"

button and now I've 25$ in my account.But freelancer does not allo

25$ to be transferred to moneybooker.I haven't taken the exam yet.Can you please cancel the exam and refund the 5$ so that I can move the 30$ to mooneybookers?I desperately need the money.

Thank you.

They replied saying it was not their policy to refund, but they made a special consideration in my case!

   “In general, our fees are non-refundable unless stated otherwise. However, we have reviewed and considered to refund the fees charged for the US English Level 1. Note that this was granted out of courtesy but for one time consideration only.”

On the next day,my 5$ was back!They did refund the money!I was so happy with freelancer then. They are reasonable people there as I can see.I thank them here today.

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Problem with withdrawing the money

This was my first job at freelancer and the job was for 30$. Freelancer took 5$,and it left me with 25$.

But the minimum amount of money I could withdraw from them to moneybookers is 30$!This made me chilled to the bone.I was not sure when am I going to get a new job,pass the 30$ mark and withdraw the money.I was in need of that money too.

So I asked the buyer for help,being a very helpful and kind person,he sent me a 5$ bonus!You can see this portion in the Conversation part.

You may be thinking “Okay the problem is over”.Wait for the next part.

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