The level of know-how and experience required to use WordPress is greatly underestimated. WordPress' popularity suggests it is easy to use, but this is a big mistake.
The extreme popularity and popularity of WordPress today probably gives people who are new to the search for a website solution the impression that WordPress is a simple tool for quickly and easily creating a website that they can work with. What many users do not realize and cannot realize is the fact that the world's most widely used and most successful CMS (Content Management System) places very high demands on know-how and experience, especially when it comes to maintaining and developing the website and solving problems that crop up regularly. Most companies and self-employed people underestimate the work with WordPress and keep coming back when they are faced with a problem that they cannot solve.
1001 Charlatans Who Call Themselves Experts
Apart from the fact that the system created by Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg in 2003 has evolved massively, many of the problems are caused by its architecture, as well as by 1001 idiots who design a website full of errors, calling themselves experts when they are complete zeros. How many times have I seen a database created 6 times for the same website? How many times have I been amazed by a website structure that is absolutely absurdly complicated and does everything to prevent you from working quickly? How many times have I discovered that so-called website agencies and developers have stuffed the website with plugins that are not really needed? That's right, countless times!
Anyone who knows a little about WordPress can quickly build a website and be the self-proclaimed WordPress expert that they are not. And when problems arise, they are not responsible and pass the responsibility on to the customer, who is hopelessly overwhelmed. The simplicity of WordPress leads to the false belief that anyone can master WordPress, but that is far from the case. The vast majority of these self-proclaimed WordPress gurus are useless. Many of them just put together a website full of errors and disappear when problems arise or when things get difficult.
Anyone who knows a little about WordPress can quickly build a website and be the self-proclaimed WordPress expert that they are not. And when problems arise, they are not responsible and pass the responsibility on to the customer, who is hopelessly overwhelmed. The simplicity of WordPress leads to the false belief that anyone can master WordPress, but that is far from the case. The vast majority of these self-proclaimed WordPress gurus are useless. Many of them just put together a website full of errors and disappear when problems arise or when things get difficult.
Understanding and mastering the architecture of Wordpress
WordPress is a content management system, i.e. an editorial system with a database, a graphic grid (like a newspaper), called a template or theme, the actual data stored on the server, and numerous additional software, called plugins, which close existing functional gaps in the template. This CMS is also located on a server, called a web host, from which the website is made available to the public. This structure assumes that you, as a so-called WordPress expert, are familiar with the server and the software and system used there, that you understand the database and can solve problems there, that you master the backend or administration interface of WordPress and that you understand templates, plugins and the interaction of these components and can resolve conflicts. Did you think it was really that complicated?
If, for example, a website is too slow, you have to make sure that the server is set up optimally, that the database is lean, that the data is small and optimized, and that numerous settings have been made with plugins so that the fastest possible processing is possible. This means that you have to turn 1000 screws to ensure that the website loads as quickly as possible. A customer just contacted me, complaining about the loading time of his website and casually asking if I could quickly check whether a plugin was causing problems. What are people actually thinking? If you have to drive a car into the garage because it no longer drives fast even when you press the accelerator, do they really think that the mechanic just turns a screw once and the problem is solved? Of course not, they can't be that stupid! But why do people think that about a complex, homemade website? Yes, a technician, i.e. a web developer, has to come and look at the system, determine the causes of the error(s) and then see whether it gets better with each measure he takes.
And this is exactly the case with all problems that crop up with great regularity, and the worse the website is built, the more often they occur.
If, for example, a website is too slow, you have to make sure that the server is set up optimally, that the database is lean, that the data is small and optimized, and that numerous settings have been made with plugins so that the fastest possible processing is possible. This means that you have to turn 1000 screws to ensure that the website loads as quickly as possible. A customer just contacted me, complaining about the loading time of his website and casually asking if I could quickly check whether a plugin was causing problems. What are people actually thinking? If you have to drive a car into the garage because it no longer drives fast even when you press the accelerator, do they really think that the mechanic just turns a screw once and the problem is solved? Of course not, they can't be that stupid! But why do people think that about a complex, homemade website? Yes, a technician, i.e. a web developer, has to come and look at the system, determine the causes of the error(s) and then see whether it gets better with each measure he takes.
And this is exactly the case with all problems that crop up with great regularity, and the worse the website is built, the more often they occur.
When does the website become fun?
Do you have to keep your hands off a WordPress website? Are there constant problems? The answer is "No!" But if you want to have fun with your website, you have to have it designed to your needs by a skilled professional and get training on how to use it, because then you can do what you want the website to do: publish articles, sell products, gain members and much more - all without any problems!
All of my customers always have one thing: a functioning, sleek, visually great WordPress website that usually doesn't cause any problems for a year or more. And if adjustments or problem solving are ever necessary, they have a competent contact person who can solve the problems quickly and efficiently.
All of my customers always have one thing: a functioning, sleek, visually great WordPress website that usually doesn't cause any problems for a year or more. And if adjustments or problem solving are ever necessary, they have a competent contact person who can solve the problems quickly and efficiently.
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