WordPress or coding web apps from scratch with HTML CSS and JavaScript? As software developers, why do we learn to code web apps with JavaScript when we can just use WordPress? We’ll compare WordPress with hand coding, see that WordPress and coding with HTML CSS and JavaScript aren’t much different, and why I recommend software developers to learn WordPress.

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0:00 WordPress is a framework like ReactJS
0:41 Why devs should learn WordPress
1:59 WordPress features
6:48 WordPress can make complex web apps
8:18 How it works
9:27 But don’t get a WordPress job

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22 thoughts on “WordPress vs coding – why devs SHOULD learn WordPress”

  1. Thanks for answering to my question. Your are awesome ! Two years of coding and a was wondering why we have learning HTML CSS JS + FrameWorks + Library .

  2. I'm trying to create a classified ads website with WordPress, but it's challenging to find a theme adapted for that purpose and the necessary plugins to accomplish it. While I have a basic understanding of HTML and JavaScript, it's not enough to create it entirely by myself. Could you provide me with some advice or any assistance that could help me?

  3. I think coding slow more than wordpress but coding fun more 🙂 <br> And you feels Free in coding. I just learn coding 3 day ago, Html and Css. I know coding so hard but I love it, step by step for trainning help me more anerzy 🌻

  4. Wow. This is such a terrific distillation, I am blown away. This answered so many small questions I've had about WP vs HTML/CSS/JS . . . Thank you so much for making this video and just cutting to the real meat of the discussion. It's validated many of my observations. You are a gifted teacher and I can see you are really talented at communicating a wide-ranging understanding of this. Few people seem to grasp the forest from the trees and you demonstrate this solidly. . . Thank you again for boiling this down so well and giving people a chance to learn and enter this job market. In this economy, rare people like you are rapidly lifting people up into hopefulness. I am not sappy, but I hope you reap tremendous rewards for your educational efforts, they are significant contributions, brother! Cheers!

  5. So my question is this: Why do these big companies prefer scratched coding rather than WorldPress, if they both are capable for the same functionality?
    Or maybe they aren't and i misunderstood?
    My question is divided to two parts?
    What are the advantages of CSS JS HTML on WP if WP can be fully customed?
    And why would large companies prefer the first if it will cost them much more money to develop?

    Thank you 🙂

  6. Thank you Simon for making this video and it is very helpful,would you have any plans in thr future to make a wordpress tutorial to create a web app? Thank you!

  7. I think WordPress gets a bad name for the same reason something like Blender or Unity does. They're free and easy for beginners to get started, so you wind up saturated with substandard WordPress sites.

    The platform itself is pretty solid though. I'd argue that the majority of WordPress "developers" are more of just designers.
    You can use some more advanced WordPress page builders that will help teach you a lot about html and css. Sort of like a visual html. Some allow for JS and PHP too, for when the builder doesn't provide the functionality you need.
    The advanced builders produce some really clean, fast code since they're not stuck guessing what you're trying to do, adding tons of unnecessary elements.

  8. You have made my day, your explanation about the need to learn WordPress is awesome. I have been building websites for 4 years, using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc. Didn't want to learn WordPress because I felt it will probably make me a lazy developer. But your video has changed my notion. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

  9. I mean at this point you can just use chatgpt and raw coding for a half of the process and its nearly as fast as with wordpress with the upside being you are probably a bit more flexible

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