Particularly a WordPress developer and a website developer are the same. Both are masters of developing websites with the help of WordPress. When they become a full-stack developer then they are avail to develop the front of the website and the back end too.

After ending the WordPress development learning it is the choice of the WordPress developer that he wants to join a company or become a freelancer itself. If the developer is not interested in freelancing there are numerous companies offering jobs to WordPress developers for example online marketing agencies and software development companies.

WordPress development become much popular in the market many chose it as a long-life career. To be a WordPress developer is not very easy as we think but if you want to be an expert on it you should learn about it first.

Let’s put some light on the components involved in learning WordPress development.

1. Know WordPress inside and out

WordPress development is easy to approach for beginners if you want to develop a website on your own WordPress is the best platform, because it does not demand any coding expertise. To be an expert in WordPress development you have to be aware of the basics of WordPress. You must have functional knowledge of the program during learning maintenance of complex projects.

2.  Database and structure

The database is the place where all the data of your website is stored, the content of the website, and the configuration of the website is the example of this data. MariaDB is a database engine powered by WordPress with its policies. And the structure is the skeleton of a WordPress website. These are the basic components of WordPress you need to learn first.

3. Core of WordPress

It plays the role of source code for applications, itself is the comprise of all the basic features of the WordPress CMS. This can be pre-installed with your hosting or can be downloaded from the official WordPress site WordPress.org. if any modification required you don’t need to change the core of WordPress there are various plugins and themes are available for making changes.

4. Plugins and languages

It is a chunk of code developed by yourself or can be acquired from the website like the WordPress plugins library. Plugins serve your WordPress website with updated features and functions.

HTML: Teach you the use of headers and footers for developing the structure of your website.

CSS: Teach you the right use of font styling, bordering, and coloring schemes to make the site attractive.

JAVASCRIPT: In WordPress important than any other language WordPress developers use it for dynamic functions.

PHP: It is a WordPress scripted language used at the back end of the website and is very important for the developers.

5. Themes/ visual presentation

Allow the developer to handle and if needed can make changes in visual parts of your websites. Themes define how your website will look and what visuals you want to show to your audience. WordPress provides ease for developing sites now you can create the themes you want otherwise pre-designed are also available some are free of cost and some are paid.

There are hundreds of themes available on the WordPress platform it is quite difficult to select the best one. You have to learn about the selection of WordPress themes. Never use irrelevant themes which means if you are developing an online mobile selling website and using a food theme on it, how you can expect that audience will be impressed when they visit your site? Always Select the theme according to the niche of your website.

6. Hosting

If your hosting service is poor it will put negative effects it doesn’t matter how well your website doing. Learn how to have accurate hosting. When you are using WordPress hosting you should check some elements which are following.

• Protection  
• Performance
• Budget

Protection 

When you apply for a third-party hosting service that means you are going to trust them with your data and traffic. If there is any flaw in their services it will damage your website. Make sure that your hosting doesn’t compromise with security concerns and learn which hosting is suitable for you.

7. Performance

The performance of your hosting can go down by the hosting provider in several ways like poor core and delay issues. WordPress core is well-tuned and optimized it will suffer in one condition if the server of PHP supports it. Make sure that the hosting provider you are going to choose can fulfill the requirements of your website with the expected traffic.

8. Budget

No matter how good and well-featured a hosting is if it is not coming in your budget. It is very difficult to find a hosting with low-cost good functions. In order to acquire such low costs, providers provide you with their services at good pricing and frequently make issues with other things. It often happened when you buy a hosting from hosting provider that not only sells it to you but also to many other developers in a result hosting cannot serve all sites equally as a result it causes huge damage only if you compromise with price.

We know that budget is a crucial factor but never compromise with quality over cost learn this.

9. Debugging

Debugging is the process of identifying errors and then working to resolve them. If you are dreaming to become a website developer on WordPress must learn about the concept of debugging and then troubleshooting. Because while developing a site or maybe sometimes using it you faced a lot of issues as a developer it is your duty to detect the flaws and serve it with a suitable solution. If you never learn debugging and become a website developer it is the same as ocean without water.

10. Be practical and updated

If you are learning WordPress theoretically it will never benefit you. Start hands-on-practical with it you can make experiments with hosting plugins and themes you can make little projects on your own to quantify your abilities and face the challenges of WordPress for mastery.

Now due to the evolution of WordPress features it is very important for a WordPress web developer to stay tuned with new updates. Join WordPress communities that can help you out with updated security concerns, new modifications and the right practices of WordPress.