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Hi,

I’d be very grateful if you could offer some advice…

I’ve recently been hired to build an app for a website.  The site in question uses Wordpress.  However, I use CI.  Anyway, I’ve built the app and I’m ready to bolt it onto the site.  It works and as I’m sure you know, bolting a CI folder onto any old PHP site is quite an easy thing to do.

The trouble is, this person seems to have his heart set on Wordpress.  I think I’ve persuaded him into buying into the benefits of CI over Wordpress but this company’s developer is a hardcore WP fanatic with no plans of changing any time soon.

So I’m wondering if I should just give then their money back and encourage them to go all in with Wordpress (ie, hire someone else) OR should I just bolt my CI app on and let them get on with it?

I feel as if I’m doing a disservice by polluting their Wordpress site with CI.  But another part of me knows that CI is better than Wordpress and thinks that maybe I should ditch the moral dilemma.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Developers never learning other things are quite a challenge sometimes. Even every CI Developer here should know a few other applications out there, and preferably more languages.

As for your problem, it goes down to what you were hired to do. We’re you hired to develop a WP site, or were you hired to develop the site. Seems like your app is complete - and if it meets the company’s specs and requirements - charge them. Maybe they’ll even hire you to continue dev on their website.

If, though, you have coded a site that didn’t meet their specs, then a refund is due. But I would strongly suggest to not refund all the money if you did follow the specs. The company should be more definitive when making project specs, and the developer they have, will have to crawl outside their box, and expand their knowledge. The future of the company’s aspect on their application, and their developer will be their problem and not yours.

They hired you to build an app, and you did just that. It is then the company’s responsibility to manage it. (Of course, this is depending on the contract with you and the company). If the company is unhappy with their product, and would want a refund, but you did follow the provided specs, I would only return a portion of the money.

I wish you the best in finding your answer, but I’m just going off of little knowledge of the deal you had with them.

Thanks.  I’m grateful for your advice.

The app is fine and the site works without errors.  The guy who hired me is happy and seems to want to offer me a job.  The company developer on the other hand (Mr Wordpress) made it clear very late into the project that he wasn’t happy and wanted it to be all Wordpress.  But the developer isn’t the guy who hired me. 

Leaving someone with a half bred (half WP, half CI) site isn’t ideal but I guess that’s the way it goes.

Thanks again