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Discussion on: Do you need to know Wordpress as a freelance web developer?

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Jonathan Burnhill

I'm going to be honest I don't know what it is about WordPress but I kinda don't like it, however!!
When I'm looking through freelance sites me seeing WordPress and saying go away go away go AWAAAAAAAY !!!! isn't going to help me and I'm well aware I have to learn it properly soon 😂😂

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Bradley Weston

I only find that it is smaller sites/jobs that want WordPress, but even then I get them to understand WordPress is chunky and slow. We have static site/blog generators like Gatsby that are friendly can use a content API like Contently for web masters to manage the content, and loads super quick and easy.

If they needed more then an editable static site/blog with contact form, then WordPress isn't a viable option anyway.

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Jonathan Burnhill

You sir have convinced me, I've been looking at gatsby on and off for a while as well, think I'm going in that direction instead,
Cheers bud.