BenPleysier wrote there is Muse and Webflow and Wordpress and Bloc and Wix Just lost another customer to WordPress. Someone had talked him into it and when I explained that I am a proper web developer, his reaction was, I don't care, I want the result. PHPMail or SMTP, Flexbox or Tables, they don't care. They want a good looking site that rates high on Google. That's why we are losing the game against the likes of Muse etc. Ten years ago my knowledge of Wordpress was zilch - then clients started to become really aware of the platform, and I began developing custom themed client sites in WP. It's merely a different approach, but the same techniques apply. I use html, scss/css, js, and php as before, but within the WP 'ecosystem'. Makes hardly any difference (excepting the transition to that ecosystem, which was frustrating). In my experience custom theme and plugin coding in WP is quite lucrative, since there aren't that many developers around who can actually code a custom theme, or convert an existing static theme/site design to WP. Of course, there are those clients who merely require a 'quick fix' and install an existing theme. But you'd be surprised how quickly clients realize they have to write some custom css to adjust the theme's design to their liking, and most have no clue how to do that. Which is where I come in again. Often I even feel like I am becoming more of a WP consultant . One-eye is truly king in the land of the blind, as the saying goes. If anything, because of the prevalence of Neanderthal-friendly mobile technology, (younger generation) users arguably are becoming less technically savvy than they seemed to be a decade ago. Nope, WP has been very, very good for my business. I still have a love-hate relationship with WP (still think its theming code is bloated and convoluted junk), but almost no-one of my clients wants a static website or hand-coded PHP back-end anymore. And I can't say I blame them. Clients can have a fully-functional and easy to manage web shop in a matter of days, rather than weeks or months. I say, follow where the wind blows. If your clients want Wordpress, give them Wordpress - and charge the same money (or more!).
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