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PHP and Wordpress Had to start over at the bottom after alcohol addiction destroyed me. Landed a job working with WordPress and started having quite a bit of
by thrownaway954 8y ago
PHP and Wordpress
Had to start over at the bottom after alcohol addiction destroyed me.
Landed a job working with WordPress and started having quite a bit of with it. Naturally I just HAD to start tinkering and learned PHP to write plugins and manipulate the hell out of it.
PHP isn't all that bad and is actually pretty easy to pick up. My only gripe with it is that quite a bit of the libraries aren't on par with other languages I've used. For instance, PDF generation libraries aren't nearly as good as Ruby, .Net, heck even ColdFusion is better.
Great thing about Wordpress is that thr plugin eco system makes stitching websites together a breeze. There is a plugin for almost anything.
- tomcam 8y agoThat's an amazing story. Congrats!
- wuschel 8y agoSeconded. Please take my warm hearted congratulations. Addiction is a horrible enemy.
- jayar95 8y agoTake a look at symfony
- andrei_says_ 8y agoCheck out CraftCMS. Clean, well-architected, flexible and extensible.
- sebastienrocks 8y agoI would suggest you now focus your attention elsewhere. Wordpress is a great eco-system, but if you want to earn more, dive into Javascript with ES6. From there you can pick-up a UI framework (I would personally suggest Vue.js), and move onto exciting large-scale front-end applications, with a better pay-check. I've almost doubled my salary moving from a Wordpress developer to a front-end engineer in a years time.
- somatic 8y agoIf I may ask, where did you find a front-end job you liked?
- andrewstellman 8y agoThis is such a great story. Congratulations on turning things around! https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/1077227963177934848 https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/107722796317793484...
- thrownaway954 8y agothanks man!