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Re:My experiences with Automattic: Part 3 by sgdfhijfgsdfgds on Thursday October 17, 2024 @10:55AM (#41870253)
> You can be a "senior full stack" developer in the WordPress ecosystem but you'll hit a wall once you start applying for more general PHP roles as everything from the standard coding style to how classes and namespaces are used are worlds apart.

I once taught someone to make this jump, who was convinced he would never be able to. It is definitely a mindset change but I think a good developer can do it. Especially since these days, class and namespace stuff and Composer dependencies are increasingly common in plugin development.

I love Laravel (especially with Lighthouse) but I think the hooks/actions model in WordPress is underrated in its simplicity and appropriateness for the task.

(I am not a fan of the standard WP coding style, TBH)

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Re:My experiences with Automattic: Part 3 by aldavigdis on Thursday October 17, 2024 @11:01AM (#41870328)
100%! I made the journey myself after finally getting an honest feedback of a coding challenge I did for a job application, but I do think that my own background in other languages and frameworks helped.

I do worry about the thousands of people out there that have no other marketable skill than WordPress and are not going to climb out.

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