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How to Become a WordPress Developer in 2022

Al Nahian on February 07, 2021

Today we'll be learning, How To Become a WordPress Developer in 2021. In this post, we are going to focus on the main fundamentals and core things...
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Nicolas Fränkel •

I'm not sure becoming a WordPress developer in 2021 is really a safe bet.

Google Trend for WordPress over the past 5 years

Source: Google Trend

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Rémy 🤖 •

Actually I've been recently looking for the top WordPress websites and turns out that most of the examples given in those lists have been re-made with another tech during 2019~2020

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Al Nahian • • Edited

That's very normal. When you'll find a better solution for you, then obviously you're gonna shift to that technology, am I right?

It isn't very surprising that so many WordPress made websites moved to another technology during 2k19-2k20.

Thanks, @Rémy for your opinion!

#HappyCoding

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Travis Fantina •

I detest working in WordPress these days but it powers 39% of the internet; that's up from 30% in 2017. So if WordPress is your thing it's about the safest bet around.

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Al Nahian •

Working in WordPress in 2021 isn't a bad idea at all @travis !

Thanks for your opinion.

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Al Nahian •

Thanks for your information !

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Henrik Wirth •

You are missing headless WordPress with WPGraphQl 🤷‍♂️

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Al Nahian •

Aw, exactly ! Thank you Henrik for your correction. I will definitely add the point in the next edit, alright?

Nowadays, as a WP Developer, we all should know at least the basics of Headless CMS like WordPress and WPGraphQL.

Thanks again.

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Tom Gooden✨ •

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spiritupbro •

please remove freelancer.com complaintsboard.com/freelancercom-... don't ever use freelancer.com anymore this website is a scam take a look at this, they closed account without warning beware

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Fred •

I love seeing posts that introduce people to this world...

Holy cow this shit is complicated, eh?

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Al Nahian •

What did you mean by this?

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Fred • • Edited

I mean there's heaps of things to learn and it must seem insurmountable to beginners. I've been a frontend "dev" for over 10 years and it still baffles me how over-engineered it seems, sometimes.

Edit: then again, this article is about Wordpress, and I have to admit it's still a solid choice for medium-sized websites, and it's not tooooo hard to work with

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Al Nahian •

Makes sense :)

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sara184 •

Informative and quite inspiring article for wanna be WordPress developers.

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Al Nahian •

Thank You so much @sara184 .

Best Wishes for you, Happy Coding!

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Ice or Fire •

Learn something else? Maybe Django with Wagtail?

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Al Nahian •

Yeah, that's a good idea. But it's up to you!

Happy Coding, @iceorfiresite

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Roadmaps master • • Edited

May I create a roadmap from your article at infinite.education/?

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Al Nahian •

Yeah sure, just don't forget to leave a credit with my dev.to profile link!

Thank You @roadmaps

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Juan Duque •

Thanks for the list!!! :D

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Al Nahian •

You're welcome, @juanduquemkt

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Mahmudul Hasan •

Nice Article Nahian

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Al Nahian •

Thank You Dear Mahmudul Hasan!

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Lễ Âu • • Edited

You Should start with developer.wordpress.org/

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Al Nahian •

Sure!

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Al Nahian •

Thank You @rich1n

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Golam Kibria •

Hello, Anime.js have not dependency on jQuery. It is completely another animation library of Javascript