So, i’ve been seeing a lot of job listings requiring WordPress as a front-end dev but im just wondering if I will be using it. As a dev how often do you use WordPress in your job (not as a WordPress dev)? The job listings i’ve been seeing aren’t for a wordpress dev, but have word press in skills. Sorry if this is confusing.
There could be numerous reasons on why it’s required, it could be that they use wordpress as an headless cms or they manage classic wp websites from before or even now.
The main reason to use WordPress for your company’s website is the same reason to use Excel, Word, or Gmail for your company’s business applications: hundreds of millions of people already know how to use it so you don’t have to train them from scratch on a new system.
Similarly, virtually every city of more than 30,000 is likely to have at least one capable, competent WordPress professional who can generally help support, maintain, and extend a WordPress site.
And finally, if a business wishes to add an online store, an events calendar, a portfolio, etc., they have up to dozens of off-the-shelf options plus the option of hiring programmers who only need to tie into one or more established (and extensively hardened and debugged) frameworks and APIs.
This can be as disappointing (at least initially) for full-stack programmers to work on a WordPress business site as it would be for an aeronautic engineer to work on HVAC for a business office. But that’s where the steady work is.
well not having it is, per your post, limiting your job search. so… yes?