I used to do Wordpress development and the short of it is, it wasn’t profitable enough to be sustainable for me. These days, web development is more of a side gig for me and I’m no longer using Wordpress. I don’t necessarily need to make a full-time income with it and I’m certainly not looking for high pressure, high stakes projects, but I was wondering where the best opportunities are for freelancers these days and what would be best skills/technologies to learn for those sorts of jobs?
Also, as a more specific side question, are things like Hugo and Jekyll much in demand these days as far as freelance goes?
That’s definitely one of the directions I’m leaning. Static sites just seem so much simpler to manage.
I use eleventy + netlify. It’s how I serve my docs site for free: https://www.tybalt.org/pages/eleventy-plugin/
I have a GitHub action that builds and deploys the site on every commit. No database, no running server, just html/css/js. If you’re curious about the setup or have any questions trying to do the same, lemme know!