WHY DEVELOPERS HATE WORDPRESS...AND HOW TO MAKE ONE

I don't think wordpress is that bad, it can just be a pain to work with. It's a great way to freelance.

WordPress is for the customer, not the developer.

people who make themes and plugins are developers, and those other "developers" are usually web designers

As a php developer WordPress is such an easy money maker. Set up is a breeze. A basic understanding of html and css lets make customization's beyond the frontend and knowing php lets you really customize (but rarely have to use it, there is always a plugin that will do it). The real money is in the maintenance fees. After the work is done, you offer a monthly maintenance fee which usually just requires hitting "update" once a month on various plugins and themes. The key is to always make a child theme so updates won't effect your themes.

I create websites for my clients using WordPress, also do development work, have a degree in Computer Applications and I don't care if you call me a developer or a designer. And the fact is clients like WordPress. And we work for clients. And we can do custom development using WordPress as well.

I'm a frontend WordPress developer. I make custom templates with JQuery and CSS. I absolutely love this job.

I did my first "real" project for a client with WP using a custom template. I don't have any issue with putting that in my portfolio. It doesn't mean I don't know how to code or I'm just trying to take shortcuts. It means I used the best tool for the job.

I've dedicated years of my life to actually learn to code and then learn frameworks and libraries to bring everything together, I often ask myself why didn't I just learn word press or Drupal and make money freelancing with those? From what I've seen, people who didn't actually take the time to learn to code and develop from scratch are at the mercy of plugins and often can't deliver on bigger projects that require them to create functionality that hasn't been implemented into some buggy code.

75% of this video's information is misleading! Yes! you are a developer with coding skills. But still, if the task is to cut a paper into half, It doesn't matter what tool you use to cut the paper into half. let's not forget such companies like SONY MUSIC, BBC AMERICA ... uses Wordpress not because it's cheap not because developers hate it but only because it's capable of doing the job. I suggest people learning to code ... And i love Wordpress as well!

I'm a WordPress developer... Yes, an actual developer I build themes and plugins from scratch. I also fix what these other "WordPress Developers" break or screw up by installing millions of plugins and not really knowing what they are doing.

You make some useful points, so thanks. I would note that taxi drivers don't usually build their own vehicles from scratch but they can make a living by knowing how to drive them and taking other people somewhere close to where they want to go.

There's a lot of snobbery amongst 'real' developers about Wordpress. The fact is - Wordpress meets a huge demand for businesses. It's affordable and it works. And there's A LOT of customisation that can be done with child themes and lots of plugin knowledge. Throw some CSS knowledge into the mix and you can do some serious damage as a drag and drop developer.

Developing for Wordpress(custom themes/plugins/etc) is super nice, it's what I do full-time currently. PHP is super powerful, and if you know the Wordpress ecosystem, you can do almost anything that you could do with another web-technology stack.

I was browsing your stream last night looking where you discussed WP.... ask and you shall receive... here it is. Great info broski

I'm a developer and I love WordPress. I see it as just another tool to use, just like an IDE, a database, or a repo, etc. It let's me skip all of the mindnumbingly tedious parts of building a website that I would otherwise need to repeat every time. I can get straight to the interesting part of the solution where you actually need to think.

The funny thing is that a WordPress ad played before this video

I can understand webdevelopers getting a bit pissy about Wordpress. After all they have spent a lot of time and money learning coding etc to give them the skills to build sites from scratch, and then comes along a platform that allows pretty much anybody with a reasonable amount of grey matter between their ears and a some spare time and determination to build functional and professional looking websites. A good analogy would be the old method of painting cars - in the early days the same methods of painting coaches (horse drawn) were used to paint the early cars ie lots of coats of paint, each coat being flatted (rubbed) back with emery paper, then another coat, another coat etc and finally a polish to acheive a highly glossed paint finnish. Then some clever sod invents a thing called a spray gun which sprays paint on evenly and quickly and requires much less skill to produce nearly the same finish. So within a short time coach painters were out of work as their skills were no longer required other than in high end cars. It's true of other aspects of life as well. Wordpress is pretty much the DIY version of Webdeveloping. It's just technical evolution.

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The reason I love wordpress is that it is opensource and the level of how much you can modify things is very high, everything is customizable. So basically it gives you boilerplate and solves hardest backend tasks but it is modified just according to your needs and wishes.

I don't think it's that bad. Although most of my work is custom wp development. What I usually do is a mix of custom development and prebuilt 3th party software to reduce development time. The functionality of the backend CMS is pretty good out of the box and one of the most user friendly. Building an admin system usually takes a long time in custom projects.