WordPress Website Restructure

We seek a web developer to restructure our website, which is currently hosted on WordPress. The volunteer should assess and incorporate our goals and needs and provide advice on industry practices where appropriate. The developer should also keep our technical capabilities in mind as they move pages around. The project's deliverable is a new website architecture that we can easily use.

Our work will take place over multiple meetings in four to five weeks (or perhaps less). In our first meeting, the volunteer should interview us about our desired restructuring, our web capabilities, and our technical expertise. We will present the new architecture we are hoping for. We'll engage in various check-ins, where a member or members of our team will provide feedback.

The Economic Hardship Reporting Project publishes journalism about income inequality, and so the usability of our site is of the utmost importance, as it is where we publish our work (we have no written editions). Further, the site must demonstrate more clearly the role we play in creating this journalism so we can better make our case to funders. A successful restructuring will mean our journalists' work will be better amplified, and we will be better positioned to secure additional funding for our mission.

We have already thought about the precise restructuring we would like. We know what we want our new Menu Headers to be, and which sub-pages should appear below them. We think a volunteer might create, at most, between 2-5 new pages; the rest will be simply moving around existing pages under new Headers. We are prepared to brief you about our current website platform, budget restrictions for the build, our branding collaterals and norms, and information about our stakeholder groups and target audiences.