Like a lot of people in the tech industry, I was laid off. After having little luck on the job search front, I decided to open my own web design shop – something I’d done in the past. I’ve worked with Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. Previously, when working with WordPress, I would code/bootstrap the website and then use PHP to create a custom theme. While re-familiarizing myself with this process, I realized it wasn’t as easy as it had been in the past due to the introduction of Full Site Editing. Cranky, I started researching how to make “MY designs” work with the newest version of WordPress, since a “REAL developer” like me was too good for lazy block editing. I reconsidered after going through the documentation and realizing that the template files now generate static HTML instead of PHP on the user end – making their performance capabilities better than the architecture of my custom themes.
I’ve gotten 2 websites off the ground using FSE, and both score 100/100 for all categories on PageSpeed Insights, better than anything I ever coded/bootstrapped myself. Don’t get me wrong – *knowing how to code is still an advantage*. I’ve incorporated bits and pieces of custom code here and there so that I don’t have to pay for premium theme features lol, and I’ve done a little back-end work to boost performance. All of this is to say, I’m now having a hard time hating on FSE with the results I’ve seen.
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What do your websites do ? What functionality do they offer ? Do they have reservation capability ? Do they have popup forms ? Do they have e-commerce functionality ? Do they have forms or quizzes or calculators ? Does it have embedded tables ? Does it have dynamic content ? Does it have membership ability ?
because if it is simply an static 5 page brochure type website. Then it is so much easier to achieve a 100.
But when you build functionality, then it becomes harder the more functionality you introduce.
How long were you in the tech industry? What was the excuse they gave you for the lay off?