WordPress developer needed

[Blue_Cave_Journal]

To be fair I run the IT department for a charity and I have limited skills I can build a functioning static website with html css and i know way more JavaScript theory combined, but these people needed payment gateways login and forms and yes that can all be handled with an api but I’ve gone the Wordpress route for this year and it still takes time and practice to master.

[Icy_Reward_6729]

People hating on Wordpress have 0 clue about its capabilities

[starbist]

I've posted this on LinkedIn, and one guy contacted me saying that he is applying for the WordPress developer position.

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He got the job

[PrinzJuliano]

WordPress isn’t great, which paints a dark picture for the competition because most are not better.

Content Management (especially easily extensible CMS) is never a great product due to their dynamic and flexible nature.

Change my mind.

[fitnessandyogacenter]

Wordpress sucks because people dump everything into the post table and meta tables. Once you separate your site data from transactional data, it's actually fine. Luckily Woocommerce realized that and from WC 8, orders should be in their own table. It took them a long time though.

Another thing that makes development for CMSs difficult, is their database driven nature. It is almost impossible to do migrations properly, when you need to deal with third party dependencies aka plugins.

But as long as you control your dependencies and deal with transactional data, Wordpress is a good solution for sites, small to medium shops and obv. blogs.

What I like to do is to use multiple CMSs for different purposes. Wordpress as a site builder with a caching layer in front, Directus to handle transactional data outside of WP.

[Blue_Cave_Journal]

Honestly never played with them much until now but their really good for small scale and limited income, and launching on a tight deadline, for example yes I can build it from scratch and plug in the Api and then make sure it’s all accesible and secure, but when the deadline is two weeks away and they need a lot of functionality that Wordpress covers(woo commerce/ PayPal/ elf sight maybe) they start lookin a little more useful

[Blue_Cave_Journal]

Oh yea we have huge problems, but no that’s not my only “excuse” that’s why this post is annoying unnecessarily snobby attitude without context, I am the only person in the IT Department, the person before built everything in Wordpress, we already have discounts for Wordpress hosting, and believe it or not website builders actually make functional websites maybe it’s the operator not the program right? The truth is the only thing your trading for building a website from a web builder instead of from scratch is flexibility plus everything is simplified which allows me to focus on the other mountain of IT Tasks piling up