Building a Successful Career as a WordPress Developer – Panel Discussion
@regankhadgiTopic Category: WordPress Development
Speaker Type: National
Speaker Bio: A freelancer WordPress plugin developer and former Senior Lead WordPress Plugin Developer at AccessPress Themes, Regan Khadgi is a programmer by choice and passion.
He says, the first fire for coding ignited within him as he debugged codes with fierce energy inside his college classroom. And that fire, soon turned into a flame, making coding his profession. Today, he has had almost a decade of experience working with WordPress, and has developed more than 20 plugins. He also used to lead, manages, and guides a team of 6 programmers. A team that has developed over 100 plugins and has achieved the title of “Elite Author” in Envato in a surprisingly short time.
Also, over the years, Regan has been committed to not only learning from WordPress, but for giving back to the community too. He shared his programming knowledge as a speaker in WordCamp Nepal 2015, and in WordCamp Kathmandu 2016. In the year 2017, he contributed as a volunteer in WordCamp Kathmandu. Again in the year 2018, he spoke at WordCamp Biratnagar. He also worked as a Speaker wrangler in WordCamp Kathmandu 2019, WordCamp Bharatpur 2019 and WordCamp Butwal 2020. For someone who has worked so long in the field, Regan still works with the same energy he had 8 years ago while he had just started.
And when at times he is away from the computer, you can see him singing with a guitar in his hands or lifting weights at the gym.
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