The original post: /r/php by /u/friedinando on 2024-10-03 12:47:19.
The number one frustration I have with developing in WordPress is the near non-existence of a professional community of developers. If I search for any problem I’m having with Laravel, the resources available are mostly catered to professional developers. If I’m having problems developing a WordPress plugin/theme the resources I find with good are mostly directed towards:
- Amateur developers who know how to code some PHP, but their WordPress code still relies on a large number of third party plugins that I am not interested in using.
- But it’s mostly all for end users that don’t know how to write a single line of PHP code.
It’s largely an SEO problem. Even if I specify “developer”, “advanced”, “intermediate”, etc, in my search it’s not enough. The majority of search results are completely useless to me. There’s far too many people who think of themselves as a “WordPress Guru”, but don’t know what a unit test is.
WordPress itself is a fine platform, it’s got some idiosyncrasies from it’s origins in the very early days of PHP, but it’s mostly fine.
Sorry for my rant.