{"id":2788,"date":"2017-11-28T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloredcow.com\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:05:30","slug":"being-wordpress-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloredcow.com\/being-wordpress-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it like being a WordPress Dev."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I had <del>good<\/del> decent grades in my college. While I was on my conquest to become a hardcore techie, my colleagues started freelancing in WordPress. Well, they didn\u2019t have as good grades as mine, they started making money way before me. From there, words started floating that anybody can do WP. It\u2019s easy. It\u2019s simple. Just download the themes and plugins from hundreds of thousands of options and handover the integration to your client. Easy money, right? Unfortunately, I believed in that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>THE MISCONCEPTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Later, while diving deeper (and in social media also), I found that the same misconception was in the community also. People treat WP developers as low-end devs working in the easiest tech. Yes, it\u2019s just plugins download, drag-and-drop, and you have a digital identity on the web! I started doubting about my work at some point. Am I doing it right? Am I, who always wanted to be a hardcore techie, who now works on the &#8220;easiest&#8221; tech is heading in right direction?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong>THE REALITY<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">People generally ignore the effort put by all the themes, plugins and core developers that made a platform so huge yet so easy to use. WordPress has one of the largest community, still growing like a startup with a flaming hot idea, powering 28% of the web (when I started, it was 27%). WP development is not just drag-and-drop. It\u2019s contributing to the huge codebase behind those functionalities that empowers one to quickly set up an entire running business within an hour! (I won&#8217;t talk about the cost. You know that.)<\/p>\n<p>I work for a client, an eCommerce application, that has a revenue of more than a million per annum (obviously, we&#8217;re talking dollars). It uses WooCommerce, add-ons and many more custom features built over it. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ma.tt\/\">Matt<\/a><\/span> (I used his first name, but he doesn&#8217;t know me&#8230; yet) started WordPress as a blogging platform. 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