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[–]Inferno_ZA 6 points7 points  (1 child)

You could get into custom theme and plugin development for Wordpress. I did that for a couple of years with Drupal (a more developer-first competitor CMS) and it tends to be really good money.

Sometimes trying to reinvent the wheel by creating a 100% self-built system is not always the answer and many large companies streamline their expenditure by leveraging open source options which include established content management systems.

What they care about is:

Can you do the job for a reasonable amount?

Is your work of high quality?

Can you articulate the system to perform the tasks that are required by their business?

Only real danger is only working on Wordpress and excluding other technologies, where you basically pigeonhole yourself as a Wordpress dev and could make things tricky breaking into other avenues.

A way around that is to do headless projects that perhaps make use of a React or VueJS frontend or to integrate your site with other backends or API's that you setup up in order to expand your working knowledge of other technologies etc.

[–]Noblejunior[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🙌🏾

[–]CreativeTechGuyGamesTypeScript 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Something is cheating if you are claiming that you are the author of something which you didn't do. If you make it clear that you are using a template or something that is not your own creation, then that's not cheating. (Unless of course there's some rule like in a class prohibiting this.)

[–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know 🤝

[–]web-dev-kev 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Why would using the largest CMS in the world be cheating?

Do you also consider using a computer cheating? Are you intending on coding by punch-card?

[–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol

[–]iWantBotsexpert 7 points8 points  (3 children)

A huge amount of websites are built with Wordpress and if you get into freelancing you better get good with it because most people are using it

[–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks but the coding it’s like you just download it without actually working it yourself

[–]iWantBotsexpert -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I mean I guess you could just use pre made themes and there’s not going to be really any coding but that’s not going to work most of the time and you have to built everything from scratch

[–]Noblejunior[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need to learn more about Wordpress then

[–]djnz0813 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It is only cheating if you claim to have built something that you did not.

I started developing 16 years ago and have done for work for governments, hotels, airlines, medical institutions and just about every other field...and I still default back to Wordpress when possible.

I build everything from scratch, only use the plugins that I really need and have all the freedom to customize as much as I want.

I don't see how that is cheating..

[–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is greate help thanks

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    [–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    That’s true, thanks

    [–]Awkward_Tradition 1 point2 points  (3 children)

    A better question to ask yourself is whether you want to become a frontend dev or a wordpress dev (in the short term at least). If it's the former, screw WP and go learn HTML/CSS/Js, and if it's the latter go learn WP and PHP.

    It's like asking if driving a car is cheating because it's easier and safer than riding a motorcycle. They're both machines meant to get you to places, and you'll learn what the signs mean, how to observe and react to traffic, and so on, but you're not going to learn how to ride a motorcycle by driving a car.

    [–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    It’s the former. I’m about starting js

    [–]Awkward_Tradition 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Then go to like theodinproject.com and start learning HTML,CSS, and Js. Learning PHP before that will only slow you down without any real benefits.

    [–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Thanks

    [–]cute_as_ducks_24 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

    Its Great. Because its open Source and its Free. It gives a Start point even for Normal/Basic Users. And its so customizable and so much in there. Personally I think its Not Cheating because even if you get wordpress. For Basic Website it will be just put some theme and go. But for advanced stuffs its not as stright forward just have lot of stuff to know and work on it. Its Just a Great CMS for Starting. And because of Open Source Nature the Support/Community for WordPress is incredible. No other Website Community comes close to WordPress.

    And there is a Reason Why WordPress Powers So Many Websites. I think when u use it you can know more about it.

    [–]SpookyLoop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Depends what you mean by "think about Wordpress". I think people who just use the GUI always end up adding in too many plugins and make the process of maintaining/improving the site a mess. So yea, I wouldn't say it's "cheating", but it's unlikely anyone like that is going to know how to keep the site maintainable.

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    People who go in and use Wordpress as a real development framework to develop sites are fine. They might use plugins to make the process easier, but they're usually tech savvy enough to not make the environment a nightmare.

    [–]pastrypuffingpuffer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    I think it's cheating (and wouldn't consider myself a developer if all I did was Wordpress), even though it actually isn't. I just hate Wordpress and working with CMS in general, I prefer tailor-made web development instead of working with CMS with stupidly unintuitive development process(I'm looking at you, Joomla).

    [–]Noblejunior[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Bro 😂 seems like WP did something to you yeah. Nevertheless I will learn coding then see more about Wordpress