WordPress Vs Hand Coding

How about templating

What is easy? Hacking a Wordpress Website or Learning Python ?

Vanilla php

Awesome, I've been scratching my head about this lately..

Dennis !! can you make a video for a budgeting app with authentication using python Django!

Hi Dennis, your videos is very good, please make videos on unit testing also, it will helpful to most of the people

Much easier to learn Django to untire to yourself hands than use WP and follow their limitations.

You could hand code your clients website and implement it into a custom Wordpress theme as well as i'm sure you know, that's still considered hand coded. I've seen a lot of indie hackers use Wordpress to build their SASS website generating thousands, just depends on the level of complexity but if you can hand code everything within WP then maybe this comment is irrelevant toward the meaning of this video, lol. Hand Code + Wordpress.

I decided to handcode my portfolio website because I got sick of plugins crashing the site. I also wanted it to look a certain way and have certain UI features, I was not sure I could do them in WordPress.

What about wordpress with php/html/css. Can't see why you can't combine it

Django ecommerce site please!!!

1. For a few static pages just use plain old html, no need to spend money on wordpress. 2. For simple blog use wordpress. Just to add authentication, comments,WYSIWYG editors etc in Django is a lot of work when wordpress has it all there with a click of a button. 3. For small ecommerce you can use woomerce, but for big ecommerce site with thousands of products, connection with suppliers, inventories etc just use a specific ecommerce platform, cs-cart, open-cart, majento etc. 4. For a custom non-ecommerce, non-blog site use django.

Hi Dennis! I have been following you since you have 3k followers and i am a fellow django developer too.

I need persuade my clients not to use wordpress and i need to convince them to go with Wagtail which is a more friendly and extendable way but web development has been stuck in wordpress. code in wordpress or die hungry.

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I am new to web development but have some experience in software development, hence I follow coding from scratch. But my worry is, how to manage web security(prevent hacking) and SEO when we do development from scratch ? In wordpress, plugins gives us a very good help.

With the woocommerce rest api you could have done all the customizations you mentioned.

Pretty much the same advice my instructor gave us in college. I always prefer to hand code my work when I can. I find sometimes you're a bit limited with wordpress

WordPress burned me for the last time on a small simple self-hosted site. At least once a year, I run into a security issue and end up losing my self-hosted solution. Redesigning my personal self-hosted site in Django right now. Should have done it years ago. The hassle of always patching WP for a site that no-one should care about but me and a few blog readers, is too much hassle moving forward.

Is there a way to add on to wordpress, like lets say you need something advance, is there a way to use them together? Manual coding with wordpess

Is your voice and video in this video working differently in this video?

если перевести весь этотот треп на простой русский язык, то
"вордпресс это классно, НО ручками все подправлять придется. так как конфликта не избежать, Потери кода и данных не избежать"
поэтому учите PHP ....и будет вам счастье.

Can you show us how to build a online web game(client server based) using python or using django channels to build some app with real time comms.

Thank you man, very valuable information

I am a one person coder. Have no team. I prefer WordPress because it saves me time.
If I have to build a huge website using Django It will take me ages not mention debugging the mess.
Don't get me wrong. I love Python and Django but prefer WordPress for websites.
I love the new Divi theme which uses drag and drop to design your website.
Happy coding everyone.

I Use WP many times, yes it is easy but you can't control it especially if the plug ins keep on updating,

Thanks, this was very helpful.

thanks man...I was taking ages handcoding small buinesses...I have great creaticity I like to portray but for my freelancing, I am getting started with wordpress

Maybe I missed something in this video. To my experience, one can easily come up with a WP site quickly and hand code everything as needed. That makes you more valuable in the market. Sort of having the best of both worlds. You may also look into headless WP.

This video made me subscribe 👍 👍👍

if client want website in 1 week and want cheap hosting and website So, use WordPress and when client wants project on large scale with django or nodejs use this tech.
Depends on client to client.
Moral of the sotry learn everything or learn when things needed no need to hurry.

My story is similar to you for small ecommerce projects I use wordpress and for large I use hand-coding
but keep in mind to customize things in wordpress you will require Intermediate level of html , css, Js, php to get how specificty works and how to customize add_to_cart button for specific page.

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I am an engineer but not web related, very interested in that lab management system you built and wondering if there is a video went through that or any document that i can reference to. Thanks a lot!

What about headless cmd like gatsby?

Great Video! The exact same reason you are hand coding your own website is the same reason I hand code clients. I know WordPress like the back of my hand but growth is the key, I'd hate to start over coding a website because WordPress couldn't handle it.

I LOVE TO CODE HENCE I WILL ALWAYS CODE my website ! ; )

hi, can you please tell me which one should i pick if i want to build a website with high graphics and complex stuffs just like gaming websites ?

Just saw the video. Thank you nonetheless. Looking forward.

Great video bro

which do you recommend a beginner learn?

What do you recommend other websites instead of WordPress?

I love how you talk through every step and explain all! Love to see more vids from you - what about a vid that covers the new Version of WordPress - the 6.1🙏🙏🙏😊👍🏻😳♥

Truthfully, most of these examples could easily be built with WordPress. It's often a lot faster to build a custom plugin or to add custom functionality to the theme than to code an entire e-commerce site from scratch.

I was resistant to this for years and I've finally realized that I should work smarter not harder. You mentioned that you could hand-code a site faster than using wordpress and I can only assume that you have a rock solid boilerplate that you start from.

Hand code 100% Only hand code!

I was thinking you are programmer yourself. I’m really surprise you advocate frameworks for small business/blog page. For blog what can be 5mb you want 700mb junk files from frameworks. Biggest mistake ever! For e-shops I agree. PS can be really good and easier. But never for small pages 😂

It's 1:30 am in Tanzania now....and this is the only video that has given me a reason to sleep comfortably! Thank you so much Dennis Ivy! Well explained and answers so many questions why big companies don't use wordpress. It still has its place though

FTW - Django/Wagtail, then add it HTMX/Hyperscript for the front end. :)

I'm using Wagtail... built on Django.