Hey everyone, just curious about the current freelance market.

Are clients still asking for WordPress for larger CMS sites, or are you all moving to Astro?

Also, with all this AI slop and 'vibecoded' sites everywhere looking exactly the same, are clients actually telling you they can just generate websites themselves now?

Despite the AI boom, solid WP sites still seem to hold the most authority. Are you sticking with WP, changing stacks, or just dealing with clients who think AI can build a pro site in 3 minutes? Thoughts?

Thank you for any reactions.

Hey everyone,

I'm not a designer. I'm more on the technical side of WordPress, so most of my sites so far were built by hand in Elementor or WPBakery, or I bought a template kit on Envato and adjusted it. Works fine for me, but design was never my strong point.

Lately my feed is full of "AI will replace web designers" videos. Everyone is hyping Claude and Figma Make and promising pixel perfect sites in 10 minutes... and honestly I don't trust most of those guys.

A lot of them are selling a course.

To be clear, I'm not a Figma Make user. I'm only thinking about paying for it, and I don't want to burn an hour and a bunch of money to find out it's garbage.

here's what I actually want to know. Can I describe a layout in text prompts in Figma Make, similar to what a good Elementor template kit looks like, clean that up as a proper Figma design, and then rebuild it in Elementor with a decent result? Or does it fall apart somewhere in the middle (spacing, responsive, global styles, that kind of things?

Is there chance to get solid results?

Correct me, please

And is this whole thing a real workflow people use now, or should I just keep paying for Envato Elements and save myself the headache?

Would really appreciate honest experiences, including the bad ones. Thanks!

So I run a small web dev business (WordPress focused), been doing this for years, and lately I feel like I'm getting squeezed from a weird angle.

Every day on Meta I see ads for AI website builders. Which is funny because that's literally what I sell too, just the human version. ....now I keep running into people online who never learned PHP, never touched WordPress properly, but they ship full websites using Claude Code or similar tools.

They don't know what a hook is in WP, don't know theming, don't know half the stuff I spent years learning. But the output still works and some clients don't care how it was made. Maybe we will see later. Maybe...

Is WordPress becoming a dead skill. Is the whole "modern web dev" thing turning into just AI slop with a nice UI on top and nobody actually caring about code quality anymore, as long as it looks fine and loads.

At the same time I know trust, portfolio, reviews, actual support after launch still matter a lot to real clients, and most of these AI shops don't have any of that yet.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Curious what people here actually think. Is that beginning of the end?

Thank you