Tohidul Pappu
In this world, 43.3% of websites are created on WordPress. And we can see that the demand for WordPress is very high. However, there are millions of WordPress designers in the market. But most of the time, they struggle when providing services about WordPress due to a lack of basic coding knowledge. They can provide basic or standard WordPress websites using themes and templates. But when their clients need something more specific, advanced functionality, or features, they become overwhelmed, and clients end up unsatisfied.
Now, WordPress design is very easy if anyone wants to create a simple website without coding knowledge. They can easily watch YouTube videos and create a website with just a template. Another option is AI, which will help people make a basic website in just a minute.
So, it’s very difficult to survive in this technology world without coding knowledge and just providing basic WordPress design with templates and themes. If you have minimum coding knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Basic JavaScript, you can easily solve all your obstacles as a WordPress designer.
I’m not talking about WordPress development. For WordPress development, the roadmap is long. So let’s talk about WordPress designers who always face problems with website-specific customization, optimization, fixing coding issues, integration with third-party tools, responsive design, etc., due to basic coding knowledge.
Let’s talk about the reasons why WordPress designers should understand basic coding knowledge and how essential this is for them.
Normally, WordPress website customization is very easy for WordPress designers. But sometimes, WordPress designers need to use a premium theme, and premium theme customization is not as easy as free themes. If you understand basic coding, you will understand some important options from the theme and how they use code in the theme. Also, in website customization, most of the design can be done with templates or page builders. But sometimes clients need more specific requirements, and you have to do it. For these situations, coding will help you make a specific design and customization. Basic coding also helps you save time. Sometimes we face a situation where we need to fix one small issue on the full website, but the small issue has already been used in many places on the website. At this time, you can use just a simple code, and then the small issue is fixed on the full website. Customization is very important in the website. Most of the time, you can customize your website typography, colors, and layout using themes. But again, sometimes the theme doesn’t have the option you want. So, at that time, you try to change the theme and install a new theme, and customize it again. So, it’s really unnecessary. You can easily customize the website using basic HTML, and CSS code. That’s it.
Sometimes, our website needs to use a special feature, and basic WordPress designers always search for a plugin or third-party tools. They don’t care about security. Not all plugins and tools are safe for your website. Yes, that’s right. If you know basic coding, maybe you can easily add the function or features using coding, but instead of using coding, you just use an unsecured plugin or third-party tools. They will take full website control, and using the website information, they can do bad things, even they can hack the website. Then, it will destroy your client’s business. So, security is very important when we provide website service. So, when you know coding, then you don’t need to use unnecessary and unsecured tools and plugins. So, you can control your full website.
This is the most important thing for every WordPress designer. Sometimes, the website has issues, and we need to fix them. But what the issue is coming from, this is the most important, and how the problem is coming, we need to know. For this, we can easily debug the existing website and test it with different solutions with simple coding. Most of the time, we can easily find the solution and fix the issue using basic coding knowledge. Without coding knowledge, you can’t understand WordPress files with code, so it’s very difficult to find the problem and solve the problem for you. So, basic coding knowledge is very essential for you for testing and debugging a WordPress website.
In this world, everyone wants to be unique. So, our clients also want to make a unique design for their business website. If you see most of the themes and template designs are the same, and millions of websites have already used the same design. You can also use the same thing. But try to provide a unique design; it makes your client satisfied, the client’s business will grow more, and also your knowledge and skills will grow. If you try to make a unique design using a page builder, then I think it will not be unique. You have to know about HTML, CSS, and Basic JavaScript to make a unique design for your client. If you try to find a unique design, you will see most of the experienced WordPress experts made the unique design using coding knowledge. So, for a unique design, basic coding knowledge is very essential for you.
There are millions of WordPress designers in the market, and most designers don’t have coding knowledge. So if you have coding knowledge and start providing your service to your client, your journey as a WordPress designer will be smooth and easy, and you will be better than other WordPress designers. Clients will recommend you instead of others because of how you solve the problem, how you design, and how you provide service; most clients definitely love your work. So, basically, most WordPress designers who have basic coding knowledge, after some projects, always try to be a WordPress developer. WordPress development is a long path, but every WordPress designer wants to be a WordPress developer because of the opportunity of jobs, demand, earnings, etc. You can be a theme developer, or plugin developer. You can be a WordPress developer in any big company. Also, you can create a theme or plugin and sell it on the market and earn millions of dollars just like other developers do. But it’s not easy for everyone. If you have basic coding knowledge, you will understand the power of coding, and you will love coding. Then learning WordPress development will be enjoyable for you, and you can easily learn. And if you have basic coding knowledge, that means you already learn 20% of WordPress development. So basic coding knowledge for WordPress designer is very important and the first step to be a WordPress developer.
Sometimes, WordPress designers face problems with theme and plugin options or features, and maybe sometimes, they encounter issues with themes and plugins. So they need to fix them. But how can they fix them without understanding the code for theme and plugin customization? Therefore, for theme and plugin customization, you need to know basic coding knowledge and apply it to the plugin and theme. Hopefully, your problem will be fixed. Even when I started my journey as a WordPress designer, I encountered many issues with themes and plugins, and I tried to find new ones, but this was not a perfect solution, and it took a long time, sometimes leaving me feeling disheartened. Then, I attempted to fix the problem with coding, and every issue I encountered was resolved within minutes. Yes, just minutes. Simply identify the problem and then fix it with coding. You don’t need to learn advanced coding knowledge; using basic coding, you can fix any issue on the website, just like me.
By utilizing your basic coding knowledge, you can easily customize your theme and plugin features and options. Almost every plugin and theme offers coding options where you can add code and customize them. Therefore, you now understand how important basic coding is for theme and plugin customization.
This is the most important thing for WordPress website designers. Every WordPress designer faces problems when they make a website. Even existing websites encounter issues. Your website will have issues; it’s very common now. So, you have to be an expert at fixing website issues. Most common issues can be fixed by watching YouTube videos or reading articles. But there are a lot of uncommon issues that you will face and need to fix yourself. And those types of issues are connected with WordPress backend coding. You need to understand the issues first, and then you can find the solution. Issues can come from theme core files, plugin files, or even from cPanel. So, you need to find the problem first. For example, if the problem comes from the theme core file like wp-config, then if you don’t know about coding, it’s very difficult to understand wp-config files with code. But if you know basic coding, it’s very easy to understand WordPress code files, and you can easily open the file, change the code, and fix the problem. This is just an example. So, basic coding is important for fixing your website issues. Without coding knowledge, you can’t fix issues that are connected with coding.
Sometimes, we need to integrate our WordPress website with third-party websites or tools. For this, third-party tools provide steps or processes for how to integrate the tools with WordPress. Most of the time, they will give you embedded code to add to the website. You can easily add the embedded code. But the problem is customization. The integration process. If you know coding, then you can understand the process very easily, and you can easily integrate tools with your website. Also, you can customize the code from the tools. Even you can customize the tools to your style. So, that’s very essential for you to have basic coding knowledge to integrate and customize third-party tools on your WordPress website as a WordPress designer.
Website optimization is the most important thing on the website that most WordPress designers ignore. If the website is not optimized, then the website is nothing for the business. Website optimization is important for SEO, responsiveness, security, speed, and also for users. Most designers use unnecessary plugins and install so many unnecessary themes. They don’t care about security, and they just design and provide it to the client. The client has no idea the website in the backend is totally garbage. For your website performance, SEO, and Speed, you need to optimize your website. If you know basic coding knowledge, you will not use unnecessary plugins for simple tasks. You will understand how the website backend can be clean and fresh. You can easily make the website with SEO optimization. Also, you will not use any unnecessary and unsecured thing that will affect website performance. Also, website responsiveness is important. Using coding knowledge, you can easily make your website responsive for any specific device, even for all devices. For SEO and Speed optimization, you need to fix some issues. So, if you know basic coding, you can easily fix those issues and make the website optimized. So, for website optimization, understanding basic coding is very essential for WordPress designers.
Millions of WordPress designers provide WordPress website services in the market. However many WordPress designers can’t provide the best service to their clients, and clients get unsatisfied. Because clients sometimes want something unique that designers can’t provide due to their skills. Also, clients want some features, customize something to make it more attractive, and sometimes fix a small issue. These types of tasks most designers can’t do because they are used to providing website service with themes and page builder plugins. That’s fine. But when they get an uncommon requirement and get the task of fixing issues or customizing the design, they get depressed. But if they have basic coding knowledge and understand the basic coding, they can easily satisfy their clients, and they can even get tips from their clients. By using HTML, and CSS, you can provide unique designs, fix issues of the client’s website, and customize the website according to the client’s needs. So, you will get more clients that will help generate more money. So client satisfaction is important, and for client satisfaction, basic coding understanding is more important.
This is the most important thing for every website. Responsive design is a must for every website. Basically, responsive design is very easy on WordPress. But sometimes you need to make the section or specific element responsive using coding because the WordPress page builder or theme has issues for specific elements (that you created personally or added from another website or tools). So, if you know basic coding, then you can easily make the website responsive for every device using media queries. But you will not face every time that you need to make the website responsive using coding. Adding advanced features, sections, embedded code that shows an element, a unique element, etc., that maybe you will get issues with responsiveness. So basic coding will help you to make the specific section, or element responsive.
SEO optimization is very important for every business. So for SEO optimization, you have to know basic coding. For SEO on the website, you need to optimize what the SEO plugin recommends, fix the website issues, and add something to the website. So you will get something that can be fixed by coding. Coding will help you to optimize the website for search engine ranking. So how basic coding understanding is essential for you, I hope you understand now.
Hope these reasons will help you make a decision to learn basic coding knowledge from today.
Don’t be afraid to learn coding. It will take a week. I recommend creating a target and learning with consistency. You can learn in just 3-7 days. You can learn from YouTube; if you love to learn from documents, then W3Schools is better for you. For basic coding for WordPress, learn HTML, CSS, and Basic JavaScript, that’s it. But definitely, you need practice and create some projects with HTML, and CSS, then you will be used to making a website using coding so then you can apply it to your WordPress website. If you are new, I recommend you first learn website design with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap or Tailwind, basic JavaScript, and jQuery, then you can learn WordPress. This way helps you to understand WordPress very easily and fast. And after that, try to be a WordPress developer. You need to win with competitors. WordPress development is a very highly demandable skill now.
I hope this article will help you. Thank you.
Founder of TIWebView www.tohidul.info
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