What is a WordPress professional?

Feb 29, 2024

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There’s been quite a bit of chat lately about what constitutes being a WordPress professional. Web design as an industry is only 30 years old, so it’s quite a hard definition to pin down.

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.
Wikipedia

So I ran a poll on Twitter to find out whether WordPress dev’s, freelancers and agencies had formal training when it came to web design, and here are the results. 👇

Eduction	Percentage
Self-taught	90.5%
Uni/College taught	9.5%

Let me know what you think, do these results surprise you?

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Derek

March 17, 2024

This is a great question, and I think there’s an in-between option. I learned a ton about visual rhetoric, web design as a genre, business communication, and a whole lot more in graduate school here in the U.S. that all applies to my life as a WordPress professional—still quite amateurish though. I wouldn’t be able to do what I am able to in WordPress without my university experience.

I’m mostly self-taught with WordPress as a website building tool. I joined an online learning team and piloted a new ePortfolio initiative for college composition classes using WordPress as the digital artifact. It was more like co-learning, though, as my colleagues on the online learning team trained me on WordPress, and then I learned a ton through the WordPress community through (early) YouTube creators like Tyler Moore and blog posts from the likes of WP Beginner.

So, maybe not as much self-taught, but not professional either. I would say community taught.

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