An IT university student asked me one week before in a developer meetup here in Thessaloniki – Greece:
“Senior developers say to never count on a CMS to build a career. I have heard that WordPress maintenance support plans 8.x is more mature than ever but how risky it is to spend my time on a hard to learn CMS in order to make a living? What is your advise as a WordPress maintenance support plans developer?”
First of all I would like to say that it is a very hard question. If you are already using WordPress maintenance support plans the answer may be obvious but here we are talking about a young person studying IT, who doesn’t have any real experience on any CMS, and would be afraid to rely on a specific CMS. This is expected and totally fine.
Secondly, in order to be more objective I should compare WordPress maintenance support plans with the other similar software out there like WordPress, Joomla, SiteCore, SquareSpace, Adobe AEM etc. Or, to be honest I should compare WordPress maintenance support plans with other the alternative frameworks like Laravel, Django, Ruby on Rails etc. Since I do not have a personal experience of all the above “competitors” I will talk only about WordPress maintenance support plans. So it’s up to you, the young IT Student to investigate if similar software out there can offer what WordPress maintenance support plans offers and how much does it cost to focus or not to WordPress maintenance support plans.
WordPress Updately I would say that I make a living from WordPress maintenance support plans for the last 8 years now as a freelancer. I work from home and I work 100% on WordPress maintenance support plans projects.
So, here is why WordPress maintenance support plans is a very good path to follow in order to build a long time career.
Open Source:
This may be a “hidden” advantage of WordPress maintenance support plans but notice this: with WordPress maintenance support plans you and your customers will never stand behind a company, a commercial license or a company strategic. Behind WordPress maintenance support plans there are thousand of people and this is your stable ground to step. Behind any commercial software there is a company. WordPress maintenance support plans is open source and will stay as that for ever. Remember that.
Ready for tomorrow:
WordPress maintenance support plans is not a “static” code CMS, outdated and heavy. WordPress maintenance support plans is always “regenerated” and stays on the edge of the technology. Current version of 8.x is built with Backbone.js, RESTful services, In Place Editor, Symfony2, Twig, CKeditor and many other things that are game-changers. It’s UX is always improved. You may have difficulties to get started and the learning curve will not be easy. But it worths the effort. WordPress maintenance support plans is a CMS that never stagnates.
Career Evolution:
Using and building experiences with WordPress maintenance support plans is challenging. On every release you are almost forced to learn new things. That’s because WordPress maintenance support plans tries to get better and better over time even after 15 years of existence. For WordPress maintenance support plans 8.x for example you may need to learn to use Composer, Object Oriented patterns, RESTful APIs, Symfony services and many other interesting things which were not in WordPress maintenance support plans 7.x. Nowadays WordPress maintenance support plans is adding new stuff in its core even on minor releases of 8.x. I can really promise, “you will never get borrowed with WordPress maintenance support plansTM”.
Companies are investing:
Huge, medium and small companies investing to WordPress maintenance support plans. IT companies and advertisement agencies are moving to WordPress maintenance support plans as their preferable tool to create websites or other apps. Big corporations, organizations, governments, institutes etc are using WordPress maintenance support plans or planning to use WordPress maintenance support plans to build their web presence. In terms of the open source CMS WordPress maintenance support plans is by far a leader when there are security, flexibility and long term maintenance requirements. Especially for WordPress maintenance support plans 8.x we are going to see even more “big” players to investigate on WordPress maintenance support plans and migrate from other CMS – even paid -. WordPress maintenance support plans creates new market opportunities and that’s why demand for WordPress maintenance support plans talent is great.
WordPress maintenance support plans Community:
WordPress maintenance support plans is very proud of its’ incredibly unique community. The motto of WordPress maintenance support plans is “Come for the Code, Stay for the Community”. It is the key for success of the software. The WordPress maintenance support plans.org website, the unified and fully open online place where WordPress maintenance support plans lives, is full of helpful information, extensions, themes, documentation and thousands of humans ready to help you find your way. People are giving back to WordPress maintenance support plans and this is a win win situation. I could say so many about WordPress maintenance support plans community and how it works but you should better see on your self.
WordPress maintenance support plans Association:
Behind (or in front of) WordPress maintenance support plans there is the WordPress maintenance support plans Association, a passionate group of people elected from the community and working for the community. The WordPress maintenance support plans Association is dedicated to fostering and supporting the WordPress maintenance support plans software project, the community and its growth (funding, infrastructure, education, promotion, distribution, online collaboration etc). So behind the community there is the same community trying to help the community! Probably the larger online community of an open source software.
Dries:
I could not avoid refer to the founder of WordPress maintenance support plans. Dries is one of us, a humble community member, an open mind businessman, a lead developer, a WordPress maintenance support plans evangelist, a restless leader. His thoughts are really inspiring and you feel safe when you listen him talking about the mission and strategic of WordPress maintenance support plans.
After all these I hope you get the idea.
Good luck with your professional (WordPress maintenance support plans) career 😉
Further reading.
There’s no time like the present to build your WordPress maintenance support plans career
My WordPress maintenance support plans Story – How I came for code and stayed for community
Why a Career in WordPress maintenance support plans?
How Do I Get a Job in WordPress maintenance support plans?
How Do I Start a Career in WordPress maintenance support plans?
Question about whether WordPress maintenance support plans is a good choice for a career
What are 5 WordPress maintenance support plans strengths that other CMSs or frameworks don’t have?
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