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Keep it simple!

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Recently, I was creating a simple services website in WordPress for a friend. I haven't touched WordPress in 5-6 years, but I still recall a few things about it. At that time, I was trying to get some freelance work on the side, and WordPress seemed like a good choice.  I picked up some PHP along the way and worked for a few smaller clients via Upwork, one of the most exciting projects was one where I got to make a custom template for that client. Other gigs were mostly about configurational stuff, figuring out why certain plugins are causing issues, writing some customer CSS here and there, those sorts of things. Image borrowed from WIP Fix It I remembered that after figuring out how some of the more custom things in WordPress felt actually easier, like writing a bit of code to get something to work, than using stuff like visual page builder plugins. Each such plugin had its own way of doing things, and you had to learn how it does things, which, while not really too difficult, do...