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I started my development career because I learned how to build Wordpress sites towards the end of college. Still working in predominately Wordpress to this day. It's very easy to pick up and definitely worth your time. Great community too.
Great video! A WARD OF WARNING I've been a full time freelancer for the past number of years. Overall, it's great. I will say that about a year ago I went from building client sites on wordpress to building client sites on Webflow, and MY FREAKING GOODNESS I'M SO GLAD I DID. There's a bit more of a learning curve with Webflow, but it's 100% worth it. I used to be a huge WP advocate, but the level of entropy on WP is atrocious. The sites will be perfect during the handoff, but 3 days later you can have a plugin update come out that conflicts with another plugin and *BAM* your site is down. Plus, working with other WP sites that other people built is INCREDIBLY ANNOYING as there's 1001 different plugins to do the same thing... you end up unfamiliar with the options the last guy chose, and it turns out those plugins are incompatable with your favorite plugins... so you try to rebuild what the previous guy had done with your implementation, but the client liked some trivial thing about the old way better, and you just want to die. Also, moving the site from a staging site to a live domain is usually fine on WP, and takes about 5-10 minutes. Except that time that I had a plugin error and ended up taking over 12 hours in total work time to get a site on a new domain. Webflow, on the other hand, is super nice as it takes care of all the hosting (which takes about 5 mins to set up), and the site will continue to work the same way as you left it. I'm not an affiliate for Webflow or anything, I just love the platform. Please, to anyone considering freelancing, at least consider other options (like Webflow or Framer) before diving straight into WP. I'd prefer it if nobody else had to feel my pain haha.
WordPress works but the dev experience is terrible in my imo. A simple task became complicated for no reason and it's bloated. Not every site needs a database behind it. Too many plugins to deal with. I use it daily almost for a company I do white label work for. I'd rather build it in Nuxt personally. Better dev experience and I don't need 10 plugins to make the site. Speeding up the sites with the free plugins I don't feel are good enough
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I recently started on Upwork. Naturally it's quite rough in the beginning and the money isn't great yet, but it's getting progressively easier as you build a reputation. Two of those projects was a combination of NextJS and Astro.js, and my third gig is a Wordpress maintenance job.
Thank you James for all these good advices and tips. I’ve never used wordPress but will have a look to check the benefits it can bring me. I try to be seen creating a blog but for the moment I’m stuck my md files render as plain text so not online yet 🤣🤣🤣
How do we show the client what we have so far without officially hosting it? Also, what about when we do trades and taxes. Do we have to claim anything from the trade?
Thank you James. This is very inspiring. I came across this video just when i started talking to people and one of them asked me if they can manage email lists and a blog after i build the website for them. And i have no idea about backend. But does hostinger solve that issue?
I think what you would do is find a wordpress plugin for Mailchimp as an example. Then, you can have people sign upf for your newsletter from your site and manage the group on Mailchimp itself.
@@JamesQQuick what about webflow? Can u tell me if i can manage my websites on webflow or can i handover the sites to client. May b u can make a quick video about it too would be great help
Hostinger just updated their deal to be $1.99 for the Premium Shared Hosting Plan using the link, www.hostinger.com/james. You can also use the code JAMES to get an additional percentage off!
I started my development career because I learned how to build Wordpress sites towards the end of college. Still working in predominately Wordpress to this day. It's very easy to pick up and definitely worth your time. Great community too.
Love that!! Thanks for sharing!
Great video!
A WARD OF WARNING
I've been a full time freelancer for the past number of years. Overall, it's great. I will say that about a year ago I went from building client sites on wordpress to building client sites on Webflow, and MY FREAKING GOODNESS I'M SO GLAD I DID.
There's a bit more of a learning curve with Webflow, but it's 100% worth it. I used to be a huge WP advocate, but the level of entropy on WP is atrocious. The sites will be perfect during the handoff, but 3 days later you can have a plugin update come out that conflicts with another plugin and *BAM* your site is down.
Plus, working with other WP sites that other people built is INCREDIBLY ANNOYING as there's 1001 different plugins to do the same thing... you end up unfamiliar with the options the last guy chose, and it turns out those plugins are incompatable with your favorite plugins... so you try to rebuild what the previous guy had done with your implementation, but the client liked some trivial thing about the old way better, and you just want to die.
Also, moving the site from a staging site to a live domain is usually fine on WP, and takes about 5-10 minutes. Except that time that I had a plugin error and ended up taking over 12 hours in total work time to get a site on a new domain.
Webflow, on the other hand, is super nice as it takes care of all the hosting (which takes about 5 mins to set up), and the site will continue to work the same way as you left it. I'm not an affiliate for Webflow or anything, I just love the platform.
Please, to anyone considering freelancing, at least consider other options (like Webflow or Framer) before diving straight into WP. I'd prefer it if nobody else had to feel my pain haha.
WordPress works but the dev experience is terrible in my imo. A simple task became complicated for no reason and it's bloated. Not every site needs a database behind it. Too many plugins to deal with. I use it daily almost for a company I do white label work for. I'd rather build it in Nuxt personally. Better dev experience and I don't need 10 plugins to make the site. Speeding up the sites with the free plugins I don't feel are good enough
How to start making money as a freelancer TODAY! Use the link www.hostinger.com/james and the coupon code JAMES to get started hosting your websites with Hostinger!
I just stared working on creating my own job as a freelancer. I'm trying to figure this thing out one day at a time. Thanks for the video
Ah that’s exciting!!!
@sweatyspaghetti hey I would love to chat
I recently started on Upwork. Naturally it's quite rough in the beginning and the money isn't great yet, but it's getting progressively easier as you build a reputation. Two of those projects was a combination of NextJS and Astro.js, and my third gig is a Wordpress maintenance job.
Love it :)
Building WP sites from the admin area? How much did you charge and how did you get the clients?
Both of those answers are referenced in the video :) $500 for my first site with like 4 pages
Thank you James for all these good advices and tips. I’ve never used wordPress but will have a look to check the benefits it can bring me. I try to be seen creating a blog but for the moment I’m stuck my md files render as plain text so not online yet 🤣🤣🤣
How do we show the client what we have so far without officially hosting it? Also, what about when we do trades and taxes. Do we have to claim anything from the trade?
Don't believe this, Out of 170K subs I am the first one here today 😁. Thanks for the content James
YOU WIN!! :)
How much to charge? 🤔 Surely there's a VS Code plugin to figure that out for us coders by now... 💰💰💰
Haha that would be an awesome plug-in!
Thanks for doing this video mate,
I am trying to find a good course to learn WP, one of those from zero to hero courses…
any tips please James?
Hmm, I haven't gone through one myself, so I don't anything handy to suggest. One of my goto resources for bigger courrses though is Udemy
Thanks for your content .
Thanks for watching :)
What do you mean by 100 site
Does it include giving each site a different domain name...or...
You would have to pay for each domain yourself, but yes you can host 100 sites!
Another great one!
Thank you James. This is very inspiring. I came across this video just when i started talking to people and one of them asked me if they can manage email lists and a blog after i build the website for them. And i have no idea about backend. But does hostinger solve that issue?
I think what you would do is find a wordpress plugin for Mailchimp as an example. Then, you can have people sign upf for your newsletter from your site and manage the group on Mailchimp itself.
@@JamesQQuick what about webflow? Can u tell me if i can manage my websites on webflow or can i handover the sites to client. May b u can make a quick video about it too would be great help
I know WP is great for brochure/portfolio/ecommerce(woo commerce) sites, is it difficult to add APIs?
What do you mean by adding apis? Like pulling in data from an api?
@@JamesQQuick sorry. Yes
I would like to do freelancing but I only know front end stuff. Would love to chat with an entry-level back-end person and maybe a great designer.
I think between frontend skills and a Headless CMS, you can do A LOT!!
@@JamesQQuick I have no idea what to do with a "headless CMS". Video idea?
Thanks for the video mate.
Always!!