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WordPress is Still Pretty Darn Great

Austin Gil on February 16, 2021

I started my career building WordPress sites for clients, and at the time, it was one of the best things I could have been working on. That was eig...
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Michael Aramis

It actually is, for me the most important aspect has been the ability to hand it out to clients and they being able to manage their sites with very little intervention on my part.

I also work with non profits and they do appreciate this low developer dependency.

other key aspect for them has been the hosting provider.
many non profits can benefit from AWS/Microsoft credits, but the cost of cloud management is high, so they are better off with a managed hosting such as cloudways or even siteground.

my WP stack revolves around elementor pro, woocommerce, yoast seo and other.

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Alex Standiford

I’ve been using Underpin for my WordPress development over the last couple of years. It’s helped to clean up my WordPress code a bit. It’s also helped make writing in WordPress feel a bit more modern. You should give it a gander sometime.

github.com/Underpin-WP/underpin

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Dusan Petkovic

I also started my web development carrier with WordPress, creating custom websites, but that was more than 10 years ago and it was a pretty cool new thing being a WordPress developer.

These days its not soo much, and I think its mainly because a WordPress developer can be many different things, most of which are not actually developers but rather implementers, so if you say you are a WP developer you also need to explain what kind of developer you are, and it generally isn't considered much in todays job market.

But I do agree that it is still a great tool for making websites for small businesses, or even larger ones that can benefit from WP features.

One thing that is not great today about WP but was much easier 10 years ago, would definitely be the freelancing market, the competition has gone way up, and its much harder to find good clients.

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hub

hello dear Austin Gill,

many thanks for posting this.☺

and for sharing your experience, ideas and thoghts.
Thank you for the supporting the community here: i like your ideas:
The ecosystem is amazing. Every day, there are tens of thousands of developers working to make my WordPress website even better without me needing to do anything. There are WordPress developers everywhere which is good if you have questions or need help.

Great thoughts: thanks for all you do and share here.

keep it up - we look forward to see more support for the upcoming WordPress Version 5.9

with all the great features like
Full Site Editing (FSE)
Query Loop
Block-Theming
Gutenberg etc. etx.

Great things and enhancements ahead. The global WordPress-Community is waiting for this. And is curious about some news that cover all the good news. 🙂

see:
wptavern.com/query-loop-the-ins-an...
wptavern.com/wordpress-5-9-beta-1-...

Look forward to hear from you -

greetings

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Blooket join

Hello everyone, I'm facing an issue with my WordPress Blooket Join website's loading speed, and it's affecting user experience. Can anyone provide tips or suggestions to improve the site's performance? Your help would be greatly appreciated

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prodev-writer

WordPress remains highly popular because of its user-friendly interface, extensive themes and plugins, active community support, SEO-friendliness, and e-commerce capabilities. It continues to be a dominant force in the CMS space, empowering users of all technical levels to easily create and manage content on their websites but it requires a lot of care and updates

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Brewpy App

WordPress is the best! <3

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WPExplorer

YES!

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Rimsha Victor Gill

Your insights and thoughts on WordPress are truly remarkable, especially for individuals who are not well-versed in coding. WordPress is an excellent platform that caters to their needs effectively.

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WP Appointments

However, WordPress is the basis for 1.14 trillion websites worldwide. It's not "sexy", but it's hugely popular. 😀

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Pet Food Reviews

Wordpress is great for those who are not into coding, but still want to create nice website. I created my blog with elementor pro and I am very happy about how my pet website looks like.

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hub

awesome i love your aticle - youre a true hero!!
keep up your great project - it rocks

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LashaC

WordPress is awesome. Especially for freelancing

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Laguda Adeyemi

i have an issue with my wordpress can anyone help? Thanks