WHY DEVELOPERS HATE WORDPRESS...AND HOW TO MAKE ONE
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I don't think wordpress is that bad, it can just be a pain to work with. It's a great way to freelance.
I was just thinking about that. Do you think it's a suicide to freelance doing websites from scratch? (using only Bootstrap & JQuery)
I don´t think it´s suicide either. But I´d recommend Laravel then probably, if you wanna be more in control by default and be able to do more complex custom things without much annoyance in your way. Also wordpress isn´t exactly the most secure thing either, witch when you go beyond a simple website for advertisement or a blog or what not could get a serious concern too.
Thank you very much for your answer. I'll look out for Laravel.
Most businesses actually are using Magneto or Wordpress platforms.. I mean why hire someone and pay tens of thousands of dollars when you can buy this shit for like 30$, some plugins, it ends up being about 100$, and then pay someone to set it up for like 1000$ if you can't follow instructions. I can see why devs would hate wordpress but it's not like they can offer something better from scratch even if they're like technically "the best ever" most times, that has the opportunity to build off of so easily, with years of plugins and stuff, or abilities to make your own stuff to integrate to that existing platform. It's just something that was waiting to happen I guess. That being said, it is actually "Easy" to work with, but I find interviewing for it and being shown a typical wordpress webpage makes me feel unenthusiastic. Then it's like "well what do you want me to add to this siht".. and it throws off the person in the interview because usually they have something functioning already and nothing you really do to their website is going to increase their business potential tbh.
Josh, did you use Divi 3?
www.elegantthemesdemo.com/?et_fb=1
WordPress is for the customer, not the developer.
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Well spoken.
@@kevinmancuso2056 hahaa! :D
theme builders are for the customers, not the developers
people who make themes and plugins are developers, and those other "developers" are usually web designers
Agree. I'm the 'other' dev lol but I don't call myself a dev, I'm a frontend in the sense I can design and code WP from scratch(parent-theming). I can write plugin/widgets of course. But I never call myself dev
I will a Thame make but I can it know not 2019 2020
@@seofilipino You're too modest, Do not doubt that you are a developer.
Can you make money from creating themes and plug-ins?
@@sinac. Real developers use Assembly, I am but a mere peasant who uses Python who only knows how to "plug and play" pieces of higher-level code
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.
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.
Could you explain this a bit further? "The key is to always make a child theme so updates won't effect your themes."
@@RockstahRolln When you install a theme it has all the php, css and every other file needed to make "that theme". However lets say you want to edit the color or layout slightly for the client. IF you edited the original files (like 'style.css'), then when the day comes that the theme has an update, ALL those edited files would be deleted and overwritten with the NEW updated theme files. So you'd lose all your changes.
However, a child theme (it's easy to google how to make one) is basically a copy of the style.css file (and any other files you want to add or edit) which you link to the original 'parent' theme. WordPress automatically loads those files FIRST, THEN it loads the files in the parent theme. The advantage is that if there is a theme update, WordPress will ignore any style or functionality edits you made since it loads the files in the child theme first.
How did you find your customers? How did you attract them to you specifically?
@@benkand8887 Same as in the video. Asked my barber if he had a website, he didn't so I offered to make one. I'd also go to local events I enjoy like chocolate and bacon trade shows, all these small business would give me their card, I would check their website (if they even had one) then contact them offering to make them a website. Eventually those people started recommending me to other clients.
Php? The "themers' dunno WTF they are doing. This if not programming LOL
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.
I'm glad I actually learned HTML, CSS, Javascript etc, first before I ever did my first client's job on WordPress. This way, I have all the normal benefits of WP but am also able to easily customize themes and PHP plugins.
@@blaisetelfer8499 Yes dude, that is a very powerful way to design websites. You don't really have to waste time doing HTML & CSS from scratch, you can focus on implementing some code or functionality
Right. And the thing is, you can definitely learn wordpress alongside hand coding in html/css/js and back end programming. I dont see why going with wordpress alone is a good option.
@Zapan Trader I wouldn't say I even know that much; I learned about an hour's worth of a beginner tutorial and was mostly concerned about learning the syntax and how to structure the files. I don't modify the theme files through php that much; mostly I just do it to get rid of or resize the sidebars, footers, extra widgets, etc that came with the theme. I don't see the point in hard-coding a theme from scratch if you're using Wordpress, because if you're going to do that you might as well build the whole thing and host it yourself.
@Zapan Trader and I only use Wordpress if the client insists, if the client already has a Wordpress and just wants it modified, or if they don't have much of a budget. If they can only spend $300-$500, I'm happy to do business with them but I can't afford to spend a week building their site. WP is a great solution to this, though, because it's easier to get the basic layout done on the first day and hook them up with an SEO.
I'm a frontend WordPress developer. I make custom templates with JQuery and CSS. I absolutely love this job.
Kudos to ya man, I grew to resent the work and really hated it. Making those custom theme gives you a chance to write some cool CSS I gotta admit
The funny thing is that a WordPress ad played before this video
Lol
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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.
Preach my brother 😹
WORK SMART.... NOT HARD $$$$
@@el.tacolgando no no
@考える人 cooking a good pizza takes skills...that would be a bonus in my world.
Yeah, the last thing an employer wants to see is a website builder website
“oh by the way this video is brought to you by” 😂😂 lmao that was hilarious
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!
Fully Agreed on top of that you can defenively tell that @Joshua does not have that much php experience since there's an actual php log and using Xdebug makes PHP debuging a breeze with support for a step debbuger, profiling and stack traces
@@dcuza he thinks wordpress is all about managing content lol and there's no back end side to it
@@marksolon1874 Yea... I do all the advanced PHP stuff that generally no one else touches or can solve. The tools to go deep in PHP may not be as simple as node, but you can do everything you need like in any language, and you don't take a lot of resources for it. This seems really focused on the people who just learned to go online and make a blog, not anyone who can claim is an engineer.
I want to make an online store just as a amusement project for my own, and I know there are woo commerce and other plugins, but how do you start customize the store without solely relying on 3rd party plugins. Like what kind of coding program should I learn for this particular purpose, I’m a noob lol
thanks for your comment, i was about to quit learning WP :), I've learnt HTML CSS and then before JS I got to know about WP, and I learnt it, approached my frnd to make his businesses website, made it successfully, I was going to approach others to make there websites, but this video made me fell down :b, thanks to you to clarify this, am totally a newbie in this field
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.
Are you a WordPress developer, or a web developer who is proficient with PHP and works exclusively with WP?
Great video. I found it’s the easiest way to get paid freelance work when you are starting out. No shame at all.
I was browsing your stream last night looking where you discussed WP.... ask and you shall receive... here it is. Great info broski
Michael Holmes sweeeet. Thanks dude
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.
You're absolutely right. It's just a pride thing for people. They automatically associate WordPress with drag and drop..which isn't always the case. Php is viable.
Joshua Fluke yeah for sure. I tend to just brand myself as a developer, as I’m comfortable doing or figuring out just about anything. But when given the option for web Development, 9/10 times I’ll do a custom WordPress site with the functionality needed. I just like having the simple cut and dry CMS dashboard so that I don’t have to go in and directly edit files all the time.
Jeff Hooton So, you're making a living of WordPress themes and plugins? I thought it was hard to sell them out
carlthunder04 if that’s what you’re doing, yes it would be difficult. At my 9-5 I work for a marketing agency and we do custom themes for clients
Jeff Hooton Great! Thanks for the info. Also, What's your background if you don't mind? Do you have a Degree? and, where did you start learning how to make themes and plugins?.
Watching a bit of this video makes me doubt if you yourself are a real developer.
He seems like kind of a grifter himself and has a perpetually cynical attitude. I wish YT would stop recommending his videos. Idk why people watch this dude.
Lots to learn here! Thank you.
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.
But developers dont drive taxis and created Uber and Lyft
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.
Which Wordpress builder site babes? X
your more of a "scratch" developer
@@sys-theinternet4603 and you’re more of a non-grammatical user.
"The CEO talking" youre not developer
@@artofcode7 It's terrible I think alot of people simply are not that good at development and JS.
So far WP has been perfect for me, I've been able to create a custom theme and have full customisation of all pages, php and css elements. WP CMS is a nice add-on which means we don't need to implement one.
Thanks Joshua, this video really helped)
I'm a UX designer turned Wordpress "DeVeLoPeR". I love Wordpress because with Elementor and some plugins i can deliver good looking and performing websites for my clients in a short amount of time. Also they have a really good time feeding content to the website because it's easy to learn even for a completely newbie. WP came fitting as a glove for me that while knew some CSS and coding, didn't really like to lose a lot of time writing lines from scratch. I deliver value to my clients displaying responsive layouts + Nice SEO implementations + good and reliable cloud hosting.
There is only one reason why wordpress is used:
Reduce costs to a minimum.
What you get:
The cheapest
I don't think that's the case. Websites that earn millions of dollars have websites based on WordPress. Configuration is the key imo. I run a WordPress website with 1M views/month and everything on the website is customized and optimized to give great user experience. It all comes down to how much effort is put into something. But in the end, that's just my opinion.
@@13aaryan Why should i use wordpress when everything is customized anyway? I dont get your arguments. Its pointless to say: 'if you put more effort into yu will get better outcome'. And its also questionable to reduce the effectivity of wordpress on clicks or money which sombdoy can earn with. Thats of course depends also on many other things like content-quality.
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.
Are you referring to more interesting server-side code over repetitive and relatively simple CSS and HTML?
What on Earth makes you think you're a developer? You make websites with a terrible blue print and follow trends so far behind it's not funny? This takes no skill, I guess im a karate black belt, I practiced a few times.
@@jboxy Word-press is a limitless CMS with a rich API. This video is not a great representation of it's power. If you wanna make an argument that PHP is obsolete that's something we can discuss.
@@BantanaAudio Lmao php obsolete what the actual fuck? 80 percent of the internet runs off of php and linux
about 10 percent is starting to use Node JS
@@jboxy This video really does make Wordpress sound like a shortcut or idiotic software. It has its place as a very powerful system, but it cannot fit every single use-case. I myself learned PHP before WP, but have touched on a lot more stuff. In the end, it is a framework with some default assumptions, and given its age, it has bad practices that are grandfathered in, but it is evolving.
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.
This video felt like it was made for me. I just got out of bootcamp not too long ago and I had no experience with CMS's or what a wordpress looked like to set up. Good job on this.
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.
they aren't evolution they been around since very long, they pro and cons mostly customization and control for most websites u would it fine until it isn't and just coding it is wat easier.
You can make a professional good-looking website with Wordpress (or any other tools like that), but it's not going to be optimized
You make it sound like WP is the future, lol.
WP is built by actual web developers 😂😂
And WP can’t dream of even coming close to being a threat.
It’s like comparing Canva to Adobe Photoshop 😂
@@internet4543 haha😂
i'm a developer and i love wordpress...
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.
Thanks, I like to learn more. Thanks for the teachings @Joshua Fluke
Thank you Great content
very good advice. thx
Im slowly geting into wordpress development. great video. I love tools like click funnels + word press. I am In IT during the day, and funnel builder on fiverr at night, how ever im thinking about getting deep in wordpress web design.. great video.. Ive built sights on wordpress but never realy got into the coding sid of things which im starting to get curious about. great video man.
That Square Space joke got me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤔.. Probably worked better than just a plain sponsor shout out
@@gullyglocksmith1 3:42-4:00
I actually saw a wix ad on this video.
I think for me it's quite simple. Just use the tool which will get work done as fast as possible. If Wordpress is that tool then so be it, if you need to write code to get the work done then do so. I don't think there is any pride in calling yourself a "developer" if you are not making money from it. Some years back I used to write code even for simple websites until I realised it's a waste of time as clients don't really care whether you are using a CMS to develop or coding from scratch. They just want their work done.
Exactly
If a small customer wants a static website all you have to do is get a license from Divi, Elementor, or some other builder then get the job done in 3-5 hours and finally charge the client 1k. It's a great work tool, as a freelancer there's no reason to take pride in building websites from scratch for a client who pays you less than 2k.
loved that cat theme on your pc, Josh.
I am learning html, and I have already purchased a domain name. I really wanna learn html, css and php to start getting into the coding of my own website but I am not so innocent to think i will learn those three in a short time and I could really use the website as of right now. Would you recommend pulling the ¨developer¨ card and getting themes online so I can start with my website right now and as time goes by, add some self made code until that is the standard for me?
And also, if I may... How dangerous is it to continue my website without trademarking or wordmarking the name of my domain name? Because that process is expensive and takes a lot of time and it isn´t even guaranteed, considering that my website is still on diapers and it won´t be an ecommerce but a contect creation an opinion blog?
I don't know anyone who calls people who just install and configure plugins "developers." WordPress developers are the people who write the PHP in the themes and plugins that put the widgets where they go.
"Squarespace is never gonna sponsor me"
good video. thanks man
This is the first video im watching on ur channel, dude u got my respect !
Dude you are actually funny! **square space is never gonna sponsor me
great!
Wordpress is just a tool. Knowing the languages that power it is what makes you a developer. React is now onboard so we need to know that
I've done several web applications, and most of my clients wants a specific design output or layout. I'm required to do extensive algorithm, calculations such as total amounts, total discounts, expiry dates, etc. and display them on the page depending on the search criterias selected by the user. Sometimes I have to redirect a link to a detail page with customized designs, images and them. So, I usually create customized pages. Moreover, I am working with another team member who codes and design separate pages with heavy algorithms and calculations too. After a few days or a week, we meet and integrates those pages we created separately and independently. This way we could create a whole web application even if we work separately. I've tried Word Press before but I found it very limiting in terms of what I could do for a dynamic website such as Online Registration, Online Reservations, Inventory, (tour, enrollment, etc). Wordpress is fast, simple and has tons of plugins and templates. This is ideal for small scale business but for a dynamic medium to large scale businesses, hard-coding is what I need.
Nice video!
First time I've heard a developer don't like wordpress. I've worked with hundreds of devs all over the world, and they don't hate it. They see it as another tool to speed things up, to get things done esp. if the project time sensitive. Its like you're using Frameworks, except WP is a CMS. Its the same reason why you need to use Frameworks -- to speed things up and make life easier. Its a bit lazy way but it will get things done quicker than coding it from scratch/manually. CMS is a CMS, you can custom-tailor it to the client's specifications, you can create your own plugin,widgets,etc. but of course, like frameworks, you just try to learn and use the components or in wp template tags, hook/filters, that is needed for you to create wordpress from scratch -- that is if you want to code it from scratch, creating your own parent-theme/template. I can tell you have less knowledge with wordpress judging from what you say in this vid
I do agree there's tons of other people out there calling themselves web 'developers' where all they do is just pick a theme in wp and make small adjustments and call it done. I'm not a dev but I have a good background in Php, sass/css, jq/js, html(jade and standard). Its easy to create a parent-theme in wordpress. which is why WP is the #1 most used CMS in the world because, its well documented, so it means, easy to code using its template tags, hooks/filters, widgets etc.. But nowadays, these so called devs just used drag and drop sht like Elementor, Beaver, VC, Oxy. But gotta admit, 10 out of 10, about 8/10 ask for WP. about 4/10 clients asking for a beaver or elementor, so they can update themselves easily. But rest of it don't freakin care what you use, all they care about is to find him solutions and create them a functional well-built site. And yeah, 7/10 mostly time sensitive so yeah, WP is the only way we go to.
Its like this. I tell you to create me a site that has ecom functionality and membership area and I need it within 3 days. Would you prefer to code it from scratch or even using laravel or just use CMS like wordpress?
You aren't working with devs dude, you are all like a call center with no names
If you know what you are doing, the beautiful thing about wordpress is that you are NOT stuck behind a theme or a plugin, then you can make your own theme or plugin, and change absolutely anything and everything to work and look just the way you or your customer want. And if you dont know how to code? well, then there is a shitton of themes and plugins to pick and choose from. But yeah, it is annoying when you see big agencies/companies "develop" sites and you can see in an instant that everything they have done is buy a theme from themeforest, rename it and pack it with a load of plugins.
I know a fair bit of html css js. Learnt React and forgot all of it. As a small business owner, I could not give two craps about the code behind a website. I just need it to look good with minimal effort.
Has this guy even made a theme for Wordpress before? Certainly doesn't sound like it. Beware of false prophets, everyone.
Confirmed false prophet
I'm currently learning wordpress development and I used to think there wasn't much "development" in it but there is actually a whole world of customisation possibility with wordpress development.
I'll summarise based on what I know so far (this is when you're developing the website at the code level with php):
1) ou can break up sections of pages and codes into separate files and call the chunk of code with a function. For example you'd have the header in header.php and then you call the header at the top of your index.php with get_header( ). So effectively you can make components/template parts.
2)Wordpress has a template heirarchy. Let's say a user goes on the home page and then clicks on a blog post and then clicks on an author's name. In wordpress you can have home.php to instruct wordpress how to present the home page, single.php to instuct wordpress how to present a single post, and author.php to customise what the author page will look like.
3)obviously you can create your own themes and plugins from scratch
4) you can even customise the customiser on wordpress! You can code what controllers you want on the customiser and how to organise them under different sections.
that's why it's called -- Open Source
I have run into developers selling WordPress template sites to companies for 6+ grand. It really just depends how good you are at sales, like a lot of things.
Development vs. configuration
Neither.
There's no coding in what you showed us because you showed us from the user's perspective and not the programmer's.
I think the "developer" in this story is really a content strategist or a content marketer. More of a marketing job than a development job. If a company is hiring developers and putting them in charge of the Wordpress implementation, they probably should have put a marketer there, instead (and the marketing team will be thankful for that). Meanwhile, they should be giving the developer work that involves building new systems or enhancing the Wordpress implementation, itself.
You can build custom theme from scratch in wp using blank templates like understrap and writing your own html, css, JavaScript and even using bootstrap.
This is so spot-on! I looked at job postings by freelance "web-developers" on fiverr today, and literally they ALL offer to "create" a Wix and a Squarespace website for you! And for a price of up to a hundred dollars too! Can't believe this is happening! (And even less that anyone would actually pay this money for that kind if "service") It is quite literaly like buying a fully-cooked meal for five dollars and then paying someone a hundred dollars just to warm it up for you in a microwave!
ngl making websites from scratch is hard , it takes days to build a proper one
but with WP you can do it within 5-6 hours
its like shaking hands with the devil but it gets the job done
Agree! Pay is pay 💰
Dude that cat in the back. Those glasses. What did you say about bench press?
If i make a site for a client coding from scratch and since it will be not cms site, what if the clients wants to update any contents in future, do i have to code everytime when the client needs to update? Please help
The client will always want to update their content.
3:51 love it !
The part about square space got me laughing hard lol
My Wordpress crashed on Bing browser, so I go in another browser and it works. I did a blog 4 years ago and stopped. So now I hated how that oh, I suppose to pick a theme and update. But I was worried is it live, where is draft save etc. After a few hours now I flying thru it.
thanks josh
Joosh, pls tell me how to get ur screensaver, or whatever software u use for that pls!
WordPress is for Customers, not developers. Non WordPress developers has unlimited resources and not restricted to anything.
You have itched a scratch that I have had by saying that "This video is brought to you by square...".
Is it ok to have a wordpress website for a software engineer that will post c++/python/c#/java projects over there?
Where's your background from with the fish goggles?
New to website development here :) I was just wondering if you could explain as well how Wordpress works as a software? How does it get 'linked' to the website?
Hey Josh, when do you think some intermediate level guide/tutorials will be coming our way?
In what context? Technology? Stack? Project?
I love the amount of salt in your tone. Matches mine perfectly. Subscribed
I think the best plugin is Advanced Custom Fields, it can be made into full development if you structure the themes right. I switched to strapi / headless CMS personally
I built a Wordpress site a few years back and was a total script kitty. I poked at the php and copy/pasted JavaScript and made it work together somehow, but pretty much had no idea what I was doing outside of the css. I used too many plugins and then was afraid to update them because it would break something else. Since then I learned JavaScript thoroughly from the fundamentals, along with react, node, mongo...and it’s much more empowering to build things from scratch. You can spot Wordpress sites a mile away. Unless you’re a ninja with php I wouldn’t consider trying to be a Wordpress developer. You can be a website “designer” in Wordpress without really coding much which is fine, but calling yourself a “developer” or “engineer” would be false advertising.
Very informative video Joshua thank you. Also next time please use the zoom in feature your screen is so big.
Thank you, Joshua, and I hope life is treating you well. Take care.
Visual studio + Devsense PHP Tools allows debugging a running Wordpress instance (locally). If you can download the theme / plugin to a dev PC you can technically debug it
I dont hate HATE it. But since we are like from a small city, there's only a few companies that do web development and they all use wordpress.
If someone wanted to do a website from scratch with coding, how does one host that? What does that process look like?
You can use framework and build yourself own theme. And then use different plugins. Actually it is good for designers who are great at designing and understanding just little bit coding,
Theres like three udemy courses on using node.js and graphQL with React to build wordpress, so you don't just have to know php
I have a word press site for my artwork, and it works just great for that purpose.
However, since I have been studying to become a Web developer, I have heard plenty of people talk a bunch of krapp about word press, and was always wondering what the heck is the big deal about word press? Lol!
Thanks for clearing it up for me very concisely.
Rock on brother man! 🐐
Anyone who's coded their own CMS looks at the decisions made in the WordPress source code and thinks WHY WOUD THEY CHOOSE TO CODE IT _THAT WAY_.
then there are the beautiful free themes containing garbage quality HTML/CSS/JS and sewage quality PHP.
Then there's the unpredictable side effects of installing several themes before installing the one you actually want to stick with.
@Di Fox agree. WP have been hacked a lot of times. And still can be hacked. But, name a business site that CAN'T be hacked? Heck, even Avast, Malwarebytes, Google, Facebook, and so many big names that aren't wp got hacked. WP is the current playground of hackers coz its the most widely used CMS in the world. But the sad truth of WP, lots of bloated stuff in it that aren't really necessary, but of course, if you're a dev and NOT LAZY, can always fix or remedy it. But some wp themes have a bunch of divception sht stuff in it. Talking about the pagebuilders that is included in a theme, mostly written some garbage and unnecessary extra html codes. Talking about you ELEMENTOR and BEAVER LOL here- ua-cam.com/video/KDGwVfj1jr4/v-deo.html
@@myztazynizta nah..
Thank you
i love acid too but this background and color grading on wordpress video?
That squarespace ad. 😂
“Oh by the way this video is brought to you by…” I loved that 😂😂😂 got a subscription and like Thanks to that sentence!
3:53 Lmao got em
In my "junior developer" experience Wordpress i ROYAL pain in the ass.
Everything looks nice and fine. CMS and theme are installed and works as set. Then client has some minor customisations to implement.
It's frustrating how hard is to change ANYTHING beyond provided options without high level of code wizardry.
Rant: Sometimes I think the developers of wordpress themes and plugins made them deliberately nonadjustable to force you buying more products and services.
There is a plugin that allows out to find strings in the site so you can edit them
Just Code your own
4:20 of course you can log errors what are you talking about?? Also Wordpress + Rest-API = An amazing free headless CMS for an eCommerce store or blog. Wordpress is also shipped with React now.
what's funny is wordpress is great for startups unless your doing bootstrap is not that bad, as a startup you don't have 10's of thousands to hire a full stack developer, because to need capital for marketing because even if you have an amazing website if you are not getting leads or converting ( transactions) hiring a developer is a waste of money if its not back in your pocket.
You can go to themeforest and buy nicer wordpress themes.
Having a MEAN stack with custom UI/UX is for late stage companies or startups that have backing by funding sources.
Clickfunnels is also a fast way to start as well.
Pantheon is a great recommendation :) , whats your thoughts on Cloudflare for CDN?
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Elementor saved Wordpress imo. Elementor allows for developers, designers, and others alike to find their footing. With extensive Webhooks for the Elementor API and WP RestAPI, there are a lot of options to be a PHP developer on Wordpress.
I struggle with the views in the first part of this video. On one hand it's totally true, on the other hand Wordpress is no different than any development workflow. What I mean is, no developer builds 100% of their code. We all leverage code others have written to speed up the development process. Collaborative and open source code is really all wordpress plugins are, just with a visual interface. To me it's not much different than a git pull from a repo, stack overflow copy paste, or a Ruby gem install. Most developers who hate wordpress really just don't like php (which is understandable lol) or are unfamiliar with it. I do think the true drawback is wordpress sites tend to run slower in my experience, due to unnecessary code bogging down server response times quite a bit.
Best comment on here, this guy just literally has a grudge against wordpress. All be it wordpress is literally open source, meaning that web developers made it. So he's basically shitting on web developers, because he doesn't like a product that is geared towards customers not having to spend thousands to have something built up from scratch.
Who's NOT trying to make money? Let's get this bread!
Obtain this grain.
Hi ! I want to create a website, however I was thinking about getting a developer. And Im wondering if wordpress can be more affective and gets more traffic? Thank you
Any website will get traffic with proper seo and visibility. I mean even with wix or squarespace, those can get you an easy website. WordPress is still pretty hands on.
@@JoshuaFluke1 which one you recommend among the three? Wix, Squarspace, or Wordpress?
Delivery was on point
I have more than 4 years of experience in web development (JS, React, Node, C#, .Net). But still I suffer in wordpress!
What I hate the most is that the ecosystem is full of promotions for themes, plugins and premium features. Even if you search for tutorials and help, you will get ads in 90% of the results.
Can someone please recommend a good tutorial for developers? From an independent source of course.
Dude, you can get the plug-in Elementor so you won’t have to do custom CSS to change your text colours, etc.
i'm here because elementor is annoyin the shit out of me. I'm trying to make my site responsive and its practically impossible with the limited options. And to do custom CSS you have to buy pro??? total bullshit...I'm sick of it. once you know html and css, the drag and drop is more of a hindrance than anything. trying to debug this imagebox so that it doesn't get all wonky when i resize the screen takes much longer than just typing a few lines of css which apparently I can't do unless i pay $60
@@bryanlee5522 You need to know JavaScript man. Learn the library the theme is using ect...but you arent going to have a good time as a Web Developer if you dont know JavaScript dude...lol
Here's what I would do...Find the imagebox id or and class name...now run a file check for that id in all wordpress files....You want to find that id in a JavaScript file. You can also do this with the web development console by manually checking...hope that helps.
Squarespace ad made me giggle