Good to see you're making videos again, I always enjoyed your content. This video had some really great advice for all developers, not just web. It is vitally important to concentrate on people skills, they will help to smooth out some of the rough spots we face on the job. And I know from experience, that when it's time to hand out promotions people skills will out weight your coding skills hands down.
Yeah as an introverted developer myself, learning how to build relationships with people has been the most challenging thing for me. But as I've spent more time focusing on self-growth, searching for clarity, and trying to know myself, it has made it a bit easier to improve those soft skills. I definitely find beauty in and enjoy the challenge though!
Good for you! This is the right attitude to have IMO. I often find that being proactive in my communication early actually means less calls, meetings and problems later on in the project or client relationship.
I watched your very first video on how to run Wordpress on your local computer it was was very helpful. I’ve just started working with Wordpress again and I have some programming knowledge with PHP. Wondering if you have any tips on the limits of customization on Wordpress and woo commerce and any learning resources for a beginner that wants to do some customization on woo commerce and Wordpress generally.
Thanks for the comment! WordPress is extremely extremely customizable, which I view as both a strength and a weakness. Much of what I do is building custom themes from scratch after being provided a design, but building custom plugins also allows for even more customization. Visually and functionally, the possibilities are almost limitless, but WordPress is not always the best tool for very large sites with tons of users and user interaction (by this I mean getting millions and millions of views). WooCommerce is also very customizable (at least visually) because it allows you to override the template files. I think I would learn how to create a child theme, how to create custom post types, how to use ACF and how to override WooCommerce template files. Google, stack overflow and tools like ChatGPT and copilot can be really useful for this. There are some good TH-cam channels out there but unfortunately I've found most WordPress courses to be low quality or outdated.
Glad to see you back. I'm looking forward to your future videos.
Thank you!! That means a lot. I'm doing my best to make time for it
Good to see you're making videos again, I always enjoyed your content.
This video had some really great advice for all developers, not just web. It is vitally important to concentrate on people skills, they will help to smooth out some of the rough spots we face on the job. And I know from experience, that when it's time to hand out promotions people skills will out weight your coding skills hands down.
Thank you so much! Yeah I didn't place enough value on the soft skills at first, and it's something I try to focus on these days.
Yeah as an introverted developer myself, learning how to build relationships with people has been the most challenging thing for me. But as I've spent more time focusing on self-growth, searching for clarity, and trying to know myself, it has made it a bit easier to improve those soft skills. I definitely find beauty in and enjoy the challenge though!
Good for you! This is the right attitude to have IMO. I often find that being proactive in my communication early actually means less calls, meetings and problems later on in the project or client relationship.
I watched your very first video on how to run Wordpress on your local computer it was was very helpful. I’ve just started working with Wordpress again and I have some programming knowledge with PHP. Wondering if you have any tips on the limits of customization on Wordpress and woo commerce and any learning resources for a beginner that wants to do some customization on woo commerce and Wordpress generally.
Thanks for the comment! WordPress is extremely extremely customizable, which I view as both a strength and a weakness. Much of what I do is building custom themes from scratch after being provided a design, but building custom plugins also allows for even more customization. Visually and functionally, the possibilities are almost limitless, but WordPress is not always the best tool for very large sites with tons of users and user interaction (by this I mean getting millions and millions of views).
WooCommerce is also very customizable (at least visually) because it allows you to override the template files.
I think I would learn how to create a child theme, how to create custom post types, how to use ACF and how to override WooCommerce template files. Google, stack overflow and tools like ChatGPT and copilot can be really useful for this. There are some good TH-cam channels out there but unfortunately I've found most WordPress courses to be low quality or outdated.
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