Wordpress vs coding - why devs SHOULD learn Wordpress 

Yea 😄 you got it exactly, it’s a good tool to have in your toolbelt for certain situations

I learned all this stuff to get a work and learn how to be a devs.....now I feel like I should have not spent a day learning anything and just did wordpress.

Hi🌾 How long it takes to ace the wordpress If I put 9 hours a day. And as someone who knows and has experience with both wordpress and frontend (I guess) market, to what level do you think I should learn wordpress. I know there is no limit for learning. Just wanna see the things in a practical way. Wanted to know your opinion. Thx in advance

@@garybeltrand5802 thank you dear gary

The same with me. I've just learnt GatsbyJS to create my own website for freelancing. WordPress is great for a small site but the problem with a complex website isn't so much just the market but more the inflexibility and potential poor performance if non-developers have free reign of the site. It's like we can have these multisite WordPress installations great for different department websites but the theme and plugins need to be carefully controlled and supported.

I think this video definitely confirms all the conversation I've had with fellow freelancers who state that WordPress is great for freelancing while learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript are great for getting a job. It depends on the goal but I think WordPress relieves a lot of the work associated with creating a nice site for local businesses.

Glad it helped :)

Glad it helps! Yea, coding is great for getting a job, Wordpress is great for solo work (freelancing or side business) because of so much pre-built functionality. Both support custom coding, we just get a head start with Wordpress.

but why not know how word press is coded and understand it and add on to it. as its tried true and people can explain or tell you why things wont or will work. ?

Just use premade websites.... demo imports all premade....

Thanks, will do!

Thanks for the support! You're awesome 👊

Thanks for your support! I really appreciate it!

For sure 💯

I agree.

Great to hear!

Thanks for watching 😄

Thanks

Any plugin in to have only one email list for multiple landing pages

Hello

great! i really like it " my knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS will help me understand the framework much better than I would without the knowledge "

Yea absolutely, it takes soo much time to code every single little thing on a production level website. It’s important to learn to reuse pre-built solutions (not just Wordpress but in general)

Hey man, we are planning to make a website for our real estate listing start up and we are in doubt if we should do it by Nodejs or wordpress because of the future scaling and security issues

@@poolmine50 hey! I would love to speak more about this; What you are doing is something that would be absolutely possible through WordPress and there are probably a ton of premade solutions you could build on. If you went with NodeJS it would start out as a very bare bones system without a backend dashboard. You should in this case look into a CMS for the website, and WordPress allows most who are already familiar to jump on and manage content without much web expertise. I would consider building the site in WordPress and the actual listing software compare the different options. (It technically could be possible to build an application in NodeJS / ReactJS and integrate it with the WordPress site); Are you trying to build a SaaS / Plugin? What you are building though doesn't require that level of complexity and can probably just be done as a WordPress plugin (build on top of something if you have too, but weight the options) I would be interested in speaking more maybe about this, leave a message at ifixtech.ca

@@SuperSimpleDev fully agree

just use react components

What alternatives are there?

@@alexandrufilipescu1301 writing custom themes and plugins and avoiding the use of bloatet plugins.

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! You guys have some great looking themes

Thank you!

Yes! A plug-in or theme development company is a great place to work. And it is legit software development experience

I am currently working in a WordPress company as a junior dev. I have to learn WP from scratch because I came from a MERN self-taught background. I feel I am going backwards. It is not easy to land a dev job. And my goal is to get into FANG companies as software engineer. Any advice? Thanks.

@@howiewang4238 you aren't going backwards. Not all companies are moved into newer coding technologies. The majority are using old systems. Don't listen to the majority of youtube and tech twitter telling you "learn this now!!" They are lying to their audience. Learn JavaScript well and you can learn anything else later.

@@DimitriNakos Thank you for your honest reply. I will learn to be patient. And definitely keep it constant and work my way up.

@@howiewang4238 Hi Howie Can u recommend a beginner course in WordPress for a beginner please?

Thanks! I'm glad it helps

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Thanks for watching and for your support 😄

Oh, Big time! It is an amazing platform. And, now with Gutenberg being improved, it will surpass a variety of coding options.

@@dinorossi6611 Gutenberg?

@@vancedadder Yes. WP editor.

@@dinorossi6611 ah I see. Thank you for informing me about it coz am not a WP developer. I'm guessing you are, how you doin?

gutenberg fit a gap between connecting custom UI things (nice for the user) with custom code in your theme/plugin (for the dev). it really is great and extremely simple to use as a dev if you once learn how it interconnects in the wordpress ecosystem. I used it now for the first time (for a magazine platform) and instanly boosted my productivity even further. just great. And the authors are also easier in the game. and i have to admit, that I was avoiding gutenberg as long as possible - for no good reason

He literally explained that in the first 2 minutes. You could also probably google it and get a detailed answer in the form of an article or discussion forum.

hi bro im basha from ghana, actually im new into web development but wants to learn animation alongside I actually needs yr help🙏🙏🙏

This has got to be the worst comparison I’ve ever heard in my life...... Learning the code would be like learning how to use the graph editor to customize your animation curves for the best animation and WP would be like just clicking on “easy-ease” for a pre-defined animation curve

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching!

You could code some parts of the website in PHP through a child theme or plug-in, but you would need a very good understanding of how Wordpress works, so it’s not very beginner friendly 😅

Yes Mayank, you're absolutely right. I use wordpress for e-commerce as well and could never imagine myself coding all those features from scratch!

Do you create your own child theme to hand code? I want to create a blog and demonstrate my coding skills.

@@SuperSimpleDev I was wondering the same. I was still learning a css and html course, got kinda demotivated when I realized we could do the same thing with no knowledge of coding at all.

@@Darbyslaton sorry youtube didn’t notify me about your comment. But yup! You hand code a child theme. It’s challenging though, you’re coding in HTML/CSS/PHP and within the Wordpress system

@@allowrapoo2692 you’re right in the sense that coding a website from scratch with HTML and CSS doesn’t have value anymore. Maybe in the 2000s you could make money from local businesses by coding a website for them, but today if you ask any local business, they use a website builder. However, where HTML and CSS have value is: a lot of companies have web apps (RU-vid, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc.). These are web apps that you absolutely can’t create with Wordpress (or any website builder) because they are complex and massive. But these companies need developers to add on new features to their web app or tweak existing features using HTML and CSS (and other languages). These companies pay a lot of money for people who can do this. In this situation, learning to hand code is very valuable financially

Yea, exactly! It enables non-technical people to manage their own website and add plugins/themes to it. As a developer, if I wanted to build a website that lets non-technical people log in and manage, that would be really really hard with custom code

Yes, you're right! They are not really comparable and have different purposes. Though it's nice to have both in a developer's tool belt in different situations

@@SuperSimpleDev agree!

React and wordpress can go hand in hand. You can use Wordpress for the backend and use React or NextJS or even Microsoft's Blazor for your front end. This is known as a headless Wordpress system and is pretty fast. Wordpress has a REST API, which you can easily create secure custom end points. Headless Wordpress systems are great for creating web apps, websites, Android apps or IOS apps that needs to utilize an online database. For instance, your mobile app might track geo locations and record everything in a sqlite database while the mobile device is offline but once the mobile device is connected to the internet it syncs up using a Wordpress custom endpoint. With Wordpress being the backend, you already have an administration backend panel which can be customized by creating your own plugins to extend Wordpress. Wordpress offers a lot and can save developers a lot of time. Like SuperSimpleDev, I view Wordpress as a framework that has a lot of bells and whistles. Anyways, happy coding and if you are not played with Wordpress, I recommend giving it a spin.

@@DatJot Yes, exactly. You know what you are talking about. Wordpress can indeed be pretty fast. And the market is big. Oh yes, there is competition for sure. IMO it is best suited for freelancing.

You're right. It is a powerful tool, and small businesses would be the target, but small businesses also have many choices (like Wix, Shopify, SquareSpace, using a Wordpress plugin, hiring other Wordpress developers). So it ends up being quite competitive and drives your earnings down. I don't know much about Wordpress freelancing myself (I did 1 Wordpress freelancing project then stopped after realizing how long it took to write the CSS). I would suggest to search RU-vid videos of people who have done it before, they will give better advice 🙂

@@SuperSimpleDev In your opinion who is Wordpress’ target audience/customer ?

@@juiceman94mia in my opinion, Wordpress is meant for building a website that non-programmers will manage (usually a personal business or small business), and build it fast and cheap. Making a custom web app where a non-programmer and their team members can log on and manage the website is actually very time consuming and expensive, so time and cost is where wordpress shines. Compared to something like Wix, Wordpress is fully customizable, so it occupies a gap in the market for “fast” and relatively “cheap” websites with the ability to expand custom functionality if you need to in the future. Hope that makes sense!

@@juiceman94mia in my opinion, Wordpress is meant for building a website that non-programmers will manage (usually a personal business or small business), and build it fast and cheap. Making a custom web app where a non-programmer and their team members can log on and manage the website is actually very time consuming and expensive, so time and cost is where wordpress shines. Compared to something like Wix, Wordpress is fully customizable, so it occupies a gap in the market for “fast” and relatively “cheap” websites with the ability to expand custom functionality if you need to in the future. Hope that makes sense!

Well, the advantage of Wordpress is building websites that other people (non-technical people) can log in and manage themselves. If you're building a personal website for yourself, then I think the most important thing is actually finding a template that looks nice and saves you time. You have many options which are: code it yourself (by finding a nice-looking design or HTML template) or find a nice-looking template on Wordpress, Squarespace, or Wix. So my recommendation is try these options and see which platform is easiest for you to find a nice-looking template and this will save you time, effort, and headaches 😄 Also, I think it's cool to put your other side businesses on the website!