I’m learning WordPress. What are employers looking for in a WordPress expert? Do most WordPress designers work in Templates like I did in Joomla? I need to get the ball rolling and market WordPress in addition to my other skills.
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Some employers have programmers working almost exclusively with prebuilt themes. Take a theme, modify it for a client, ship it. Some work more with plugin creation, or theme creation itself. Some build custom setups for each client off of just a skeleton theme and plugin set. It all depends on the employer.
If you have a good grasp of the platform, how it works, how themes and shortcodes and plugins work, and a good grasp on the technologies involved - PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript - you’ll be well suited for employment in almost any of those roles, as you can learn the specifics of a job while you onboard.
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Than you for the feedback. I will master this skill.
By the way, what are your thoughts on SquareSpace? Does it work like WordPress and Joomla in that you download a template and upload it to your server and build upon it?
SquareSpace is very different from WordPress.
- Its a hosted only website.
- You do not have access to it’s innards
- Templates are not customizable up front
- Templates are JSON based.
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This is quite true. The benefit to SquareSpace is completely different to WordPress. It’s a hosting platform merged with a sort of limited content management system. You pick a theme, you modify it a little, and you fill in content. It’s a flat fee per month, and that’s that. It’s what I recommend to clients with a little know-how who just need an informational site and don’t really care about it being custom made or “special” or about it doing much of anything.
But it isn’t a competitor to WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or the like - not in the slightest. Apples to oranges.
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