A year ago, I was convinced: real developers code everything by hand.
Visual editors? “Just for beginners.” WordPress? “Bloated and slow.”So I ditched my block builder and went full code: HTML, CSS, vanilla JavaScript — the “pure” way.

Spoiler: It failed.

🔧 The Dream vs. The Reality

At first, it felt powerful. I built clean, minimal static sites. No plugins. No bloat. Just me and my editor.But then I needed a working contact form. Then a dynamic menu. Then mobile optimization that didn’t break on every device.That’s when hell broke loose:

• A missing semicolon crashed the entire site — and took 2 days to find.
• Tiny typos in JavaScript turned buttons into dead ends.
• Even on a premium Hostinger server, my hand-coded sites loaded slower than my WordPress builds.

I was debugging for hours just to fix what a good page builder handled in minutes.

🔄 The Pivot Back to WordPress

After months of frustration, I swallowed my pride and went back to WordPress — but smarter.I stopped seeing blocks as a “crutch” — and started seeing them as a professional toolkit.Today, I build 95% of my sites with a visual builder — but inject my own code where it matters:

• Custom headers & footers
• Sticky navigation (no $99 plugin needed)
• Lightweight performance tweaks
• Micro-interactions that don’t rely on bloated libraries

💡 The Real Lesson

Knowing how to code is a superpower — but using it everywhere is a trap.Your job isn’t to reinvent the wheel. It’s to build fast, stable, converting websites for your clients.

So:
✅ Master the tools that already work (WordPress, Oxygen, Kadence, etc.)
✅ Use code to extend them — not replace them
✅ Stop wasting time on problems someone else already solved

Your clients don’t care if you coded it by hand.
They care if it works, loads fast, and makes them money.