WordPress career – how do you describe yourself on your resume? “Front-end Developer” seems too advanced for what I do creating custom WP themes.

I use JavaScript, PHP, and CSS to create WordPress themes from scratch (or a boilerplate parent theme like Understrap). But, I am not a React Dev and I have taken enough tutorials to know I am not a JavaScript wiz, either. And I don’t do full coding of sites with Laravel or any other PHP framework, either.

I assume several of you are in the same position I am in. You create custom themes with a few simple plugins like Advanced Custom Fields or an Events Calendar plugin, but you’re not designing WordPress sites with pre-built themes and page builders. You’re actually coding most of the stuff yourself.

**So, what do you call yourself?**

I feel like if I put “front-end developer” on my resume, I’m setting myself up for rejection because there are plenty of 20-something kids who can code circles around me with vanilla JS, TypeScript, and building React apps.

But, if I just put “graphic designer” on my resume, my coding skills will get completely overlooked because people just expect graphic designers to know Figma, not code stuff. For coding, they hire programmers.