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Description: This video is designed to help you break into development arenas that CMSs may have been shielding you from. $10 Free digitalocean server credit: webdev.willstern.com/digitalocean This video is called "help me, I'm stuck in Wordpress world." Now a few things I should point out right away. First of all, you can subsitute any CMS in for Wordpress - Drupal, CraftCMS, and so on. This video is for developers who find themselves stuck in the deadzome of being proficient in a CMS, but feel much less capable outside of one. I personally was stuck here for at least 5 years and I personally know many, many dozens of developers who are stuck here now. So it is very real. Secondly, I have to mention that there is nothing inherently wrong with Wordpress, Drupal, or any CMS. They serve a very important purpose and many top-notch companies need and use them. The problem many developers experience is that when they're learning web development, a CMS helps them get very far very fast through templates and plugins. After a while of developing in a templates-and-plugins world, developers often find themselves in a dead end. They've been shielded from many aspects of development and can't break out of where they are. How Do I Know This is me?: If any or all of these apply to you: - "you're comfortable creating sites in a CMS, but uncomfortable creating sites outside of a CMS" - "you think in terms of hacking/tweaking existing things instead of building new things - e.g. find a calendar plugin and tweak it fit to your needs, find a template and tweak a template, etc" - "when asked to build a backend feature - like a login, a calendar, an email form, social network type of feature - you only know how to do it with plugins" - "if you were asked to make an app like pinterest, facebook, twitter, without a CMS, you'd have no clue where to begin" - "you don't actually know how a CMS works and what it's doing behind the scenes - you have no idea how to begin to build the CMS you're using" If this is you, do not feel bad: - Just be aware of the fact that SO MUCH of the development community know the answers to the questions above...and you should too. - ONE EXCEPTION you consider yourself and want to consider yourself a designer. Your true passion is look/feel, you have no desire to learn development and intentionally stop at HTML/CSS/Maybe-lightweight-JS like jQuery. - In saying that, when I was stuck for those 5 years, I told myself that it was because I was "a designer", when the truth was, all I knew how to be was a designer. I didn't know that I absolutely loved development, because I had never learned it. I was in a box and never knew that I was. Many developers I know were there as well. -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Also watch: "Tailwind CSS - why CSS utility classes save so much time" youtube.com/watch?v=oU5ar0dmQEY -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-