DEV Community

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

Collapse
 
bweston92 profile image
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.

Collapse
 
jonathanburnhill profile image
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.