Why even care ?
- If you face a problem without existing or with expensive solutions, the best choice is probably investing skills and time to develop a tool which solves the problem. WordPress problems are mostly solved using plugins. Plugins which are developed by people like you and I, here right now.
- It’s not hard. Developers who have used different tools and developed for different platforms other than WordPress find it hard to learn by themselves the ethical methods of extending the functionality of WordPress. The common mistakes they do is writing code in the WordPress core which is not recommended due to negative effects it can cause.
- Become the relevant developer you’ve always wanted to become.
- Contribute to the opensource community and become a true technology leader.