Building a Successful Career as a WordPress Developer – Panel Discussion
@shivashankerbhattaTopic Category: WordPress Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio: Shiva Shanker Bhatta is the Founder/CEO at AF themes. He has more than 8 years of experience in WordPress; Community, Contributions, and Development – Basically focused on WordPress Themes and Plugins. He had contributed ( Organized/Contributors Day Lead ) various National and International WordCamps from WordCamp Kathmandu to WordCamp Bangkok and WordCamp Osaka. He also used to be the WordPress Kathmandu Meetup Coordinator. Being an active WordPress Community Contributor, he is a Theme Reviewer, Theme Author, Plugin Author and General Translation Editor(GTE).
Session Summary: If you’re planning to build your career as a developer for WordPress, it could be a smart decision. Because of its simplicity and ease of use to create a website, it is being used by more and more people.
Some Facts:
- WordPress has more than 60% of the CMS market share more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined
- 35% of the internet is powered by WordPress
- WordPress content is published in over 120 different languages.
- WordPress 5.3 has been downloaded over 7 million times
- There are 7,000+ free GPL-licensed Themes for WordPress
- There are 55,000+ free Plugins for WordPress
- WordPress developers make an average of $57,778 per year, according to Indeed.
It ensures that today’s WordPress developers are in high demand and you can make the best out of WordPress with the right set of skills, resources and qualities.
Intended Audience: Students, Developers