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Identify the Right WordPress Developer

How Painful is to Identify the Right WordPress Developer

Shankar Tnj 11 Stories

Monday November 12, 2018 , 3 min Read

It will not be wrong to claim that WordPress enjoys maximum popularity these days as one of the leading content management systems available. A business owner or an individual for personal promotion can build multiple types of websites using WordPress. To identify the right WordPress developer amongst the pool of many is a daunting task. It is really important to find a professionally expert WordPress developer to get the job done.

In this article, some useful information will be shared. Help an individual find a reliable and credible WordPress developer, to build professional grade-websites for business or personal growth.

Some light on WordPress

WordPress is an open-source CMS that is based on MySQL & PHP, featuring a plugin architecture. It is also widely used as a freely available popular blogging tool. As per web technologies surveys conducted by W3Techs, WordPress presently is report nearly 30% of all websites run on WordPress. It offers excellent scopes to innumerable entrepreneurs, developers and designers to develop a website and build their businesses upon WordPress.

According to a recent report, it will be interesting to note that. WordPress is claimed to power thousands of government websites across the globe. It is also used by educational organizations and academic institutions throughout the world. In order to reap the maximum benefits that WordPress can offer to its users, finding an experienced WordPress developer is very important, to kickstart your project.

Identify the Right WordPress Developer

After going through the information pertaining to the WordPress popularity and the ease of doing web development using it. One might think they can just hire anyone to do the job. An individual, without possessing any PHP expertise and exercising some basic internet skills, can use WordPress to develop websites. But can never claim to be qualified as a WordPress developer.

Being able to create a WP (WordPress) plugin does not qualify one as a credible WP developer. A WordPress developer has the acquired talent and training to design custom plugins and modules for WP automation. She/he will possess an in-depth understanding of WordPress, its core functions and the way they perform.

If an individual seeks the help of an amateur with no knowledge and training (questionable talent) for developing WP websites, it will be a waste of money and time. This is because some serious skills will be missing in those sites and again someone else needs to be hired to fix them.

WordPress Developer is not an WordPress Designer!

It is very crucial to understand and take a note of this as people use these two terms interchangeably, which is wrong! A WP developer has a good understanding of PHP, HTML, MYSQL, JQUERY, CSS, JAVA. In addition to these, their know-how on WordPress core, themes and plugins need to be very good.

On the other hand, web designers help to design the overall look and feel of your website. They work with the site layout, colors, fonts, architectural style and other design elements. This is why when you are looking for a WP developer, do not use the term WP designer to address them!

There are many who claim to have considerable expertise in both. But beware if their claims sound too good to be true. Know in detail what you actually need and look for a web developer or a designer or a hybrid of two specialized service provider judiciously. It will not be a very painful experience then.