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Posted by Ken Chung
Ken Chung
17,585 Points

Does WordPress experience count as Front-End development experience?

Please bear with me everyone (please try and answer all 4, greatly appreciated ),

  1. Let's say I had 1-3 years of experience developing with mainly WordPress, is it still possible to score a job as a Front-End developer?

  2. What does WordPress experience really count for? Count for CMS experience? Magento, Drupal, Joomla CMS experience? What fields am I actually open to?

  3. What fields can WordPress experience lead you to? Can I still get back into the software development industry with this kind of experience?

  4. I'm currently taking the front-end development techdegree, while working as a web/WordPress developer. My goal is to become a front-end web developer, and I'm not sure what good WordPress experience can do for me, my biggest fear is having 2-3 years of WordPress experience and then having 0 front-end coding experience, if that any makes sense, am I going crazy? Or is this just a load of nonsense? Please snap me out of it.

Anyways, I'd love to hear your opinions, please feel free to share your thoughts (please give me a detailed answer).

Thank you all very much,

K. Chung

1 Answer

Cindy Lea
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Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points
Cindy Lea
Cindy Lea
Courses Plus Student 6,497 Points

Im only going to answer your question oncerning front end experience with Wordpress. According to what I read Wordpress can be used for front-end or back-end depending on the plug-ins you use. So I would specify the work you did tha was fron-end on your resume.