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I’m a software student who’s familiar with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and React. My friend said he needs a VERY simple website and already has an account on WordPress. Fine, I’ll take a look. A few hours in I’m already scratching my head. WordPress automatically centers content on the page leaving white space on the sides. I don’t want that. It insists I need a title at the very top. I don’t want that either. The column blocks are not intuitive to use. In fact, I don’t want “blocks” at all, I want grids and flexboxes.
Is there a web-dev side to WordPress that I’m just missing?
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Yes, there is. You can create your own website and all using WordPress as a CMS. Look up WordPress Theme Development, here theme refers to your design basically. WordPress also provides a REST API to directly work with but using that properly means you need to know about Theme Dev.