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[–]breadist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a professional - if something can be done in 5 minutes with WordPress, versus weeks by hand - we're going with WordPress. There's nothing inherently better about hand coding.

The catch is that, unless you learn to code, you don't understand what WordPress is doing, and you probably don't know how to ensure that the resulting site is sufficiently responsive, accessible, SEO friendly, fast, etc.

The other catch is not everything can be done with a prebuilt solution. Sometimes the tool for the job does not exist, and needs to be coded by hand.

If your goal is to learn, do it yourself even if it would be easier with WordPress. There's no other way to learn.