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Discussion on: Why I used WordPress for my portfolio

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Andrew Baisden

I started off with WordPress many years ago when I first learned to create websites. I was following Chris Coyier and his tutorials I think he was also the first person I followed on Twitter. These days I prefer using Javascript frameworks like React because single page applications have become so popular and sought after. I also just like writing javascript and I think that hard coding makes you a better programmer in my opinion.

It's far too easy to just use a WordPress theme that somebody else made but you don't even know how it works. And if you want to get serious with WordPress then you have to know PHP which is not an area of interest for me which is why I moved away from WordPress.

Nonetheless many companies and recruiters keep looking for developers who know WordPress so the demand remains for those interested in that type of framework.

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JkImExploring

There definitely are times I use React vs WordPress, it was just that WordPress worked better for this particular instance. My portfolio is definitely something I tend to redo quite a bit and my last one was using Vue and I'll probably use a framework next time, I just hated the design so much I wanted to redo it but I didn't want to take a long time to do so.