Transcript
WordPress as a careerALINA KAKSHAPATI
@ALEENAK19
A little about me
Project Manager at http://codepixelz.com
Been using WordPress for almost 4 years
Paying my bills, thanks to WordPress
So what is WordPress?
But why settle on a niche?
WordPress on Stats
Powers around 23% of all the websites
CMS of choice for various big names
Of 33K people surveyed, 25% make their living through WordPress
Over 90% have built more than 1 Site
Stats
5,426+ Jobs on oDesk
2,300+ Jobs on Elance
Millionaires from a single theme
Second most happiest job in the world – carrerbliss.com
Career option
There's one for almost all of us.
Career option
Designer
Developer
Support Expert
Setup Expert
Theme / Plugin Developer
Quality Analyst
…
Designer
Developer
Support Expert
Setup Expert
Theme/Plugin Developer
Quality AnalystUAT - User Acceptance Testing
Not easy as it seems
Jobs at first are tough to come by
Passion
Patience
You may need to at least be a Jack of all
Developing Yourself
Attend Meetups and WordCamps
Create free themes/plugins
Participate in Forums
Success Stories
Chandra Maharzan – A top WordPress Theme Author In The Market
Sakin Shrestha – Catch Themes
Theme Developer
Theme review team admin - wordpress.org
Pawal Agrawal – WordPress Plugin Guru
Muhammad Haris
Simple
Tutorial SiteAVADA
Helen Hou-Sandi
Don’t run after success,
let it come to you.
Thank You!
top related