Title: Professional developer – First WordPress install.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Professional developer – First WordPress install.

 *  [tallrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallrob/)
 * (@tallrob)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/professional-developer-first-wordpress-install/)
 * Hi there. I’ve been a professional LAMP developer for a couple of years but just
   recently dipped my toe into the waters of fully setting my own VPS and a LAMP
   stack from scratch. It’s been fun but tricky at times!!
 * I setup the wordpress site [http://www.robertphilp.com](http://www.robertphilp.com)
   a few weeks ago and have since been tweaking and tuning and seeing what’s possible.
   I’d value any opinions on the site, although I’d ask you to be gentle on me given
   that it is running on a VERY lightweight spec, only 256MB RAM on the VPS but 
   enough to use as a learning tool. I am going to put out open-source code contributions(
   when they’re ready!!), tutorials and general development/technology writings 
   on the site, as well as personal stuff of course.
 * I am hoping to develop a few basic WordPress plugins soon too as a learning exercise,
   but in the meantime I’d love a little feedback. The design is a template I found
   plus a few tweaks from myself.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [jrodgers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrodgers/)
 * (@jrodgers)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/professional-developer-first-wordpress-install/#post-992568)
 * > The design is a template I found plus a few tweaks from myself.
 * the idea behind this area on WordPress.org is to showcase **your** design/plugin/
   theme/widget/etc. not to slap up a blog with a downloaded theme and ask for feedback.
   So it might be better to identify what tweaks you made to the theme, let us know
   what you changed, ’cause to me it looks OOTB.
 *  Thread Starter [tallrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tallrob/)
 * (@tallrob)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/professional-developer-first-wordpress-install/#post-992590)
 * I wasn’t aware that I had the wrong idea about this area of the forum, I thought
   this was a place to post and get feedback on people’s blogs in general, not just
   design and bespoke elements.
 * My bad, I’m not a designer so I guess I won’t be spending much time here!!
 *  [jrodgers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrodgers/)
 * (@jrodgers)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/professional-developer-first-wordpress-install/#post-992615)
 * no, stay here see what others are doing, learn from them and expand on what you
   learn

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