During my search for a new employment opportunity, recently within the greater Pittsburgh region, I was targeting a role as a Web designer and developer using WordPress. One day, I got a phone call from a recruiter within the area about a C#.Net opportunity.
The opportunity sounded great; however, I declined it. I didn’t want to pursue it anymore because it is not my strong area. I asked him back if he had something for a WordPress designer and developer role. He slashed back at me right away and said “WordPress is a dead technology.” I was dumbfounded and didn’t know how to respond to his comment except saying, “Maybe, it’s dead within the Pittsburgh area, but around the country and the world they still use it.”
Since then, I couldn’t get that recruiter’s comment out of my head. I love using WordPress for my personal projects. It is very fun and easy to use to build many types and styles of Web applications. Many small businesses use it for their eCommerce and company websites, and even you can use it for your personal website to have a better Web presence and be found easily worldwide. Ultimately, it is free and open-source.
I don’t totally agree with him. First of all, according to Brenda Barren’s post at WhoIsHostingThis, she has some interesting findings and very surprising WordPress statistics for 2020. There is 35% of the Internet that is powered by WordPress alone, and it has been downloaded over 7 million times. It has a very robust community around the world, and it is still growing strongly. Also, it is available in over 100 languages, and WordPress.com blogs have over 400 Million monthly viewers. This is just a short summary that I have come up with within a short period of time for my blog.
So, that recruiter had no idea what he was talking about because WordPress is not a dead technology as he claimed it to be. The number of people who use it worldwide has shown and proved exactly the opposite. Maybe, it is not a popular platform within the Pittsburgh area since lots of Pittsburgh recruiters hardly have any WordPress opportunities at all.
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