Every time I make a Facebook post advocating no-code web design, some people immediately (and wrongly) interpret it as me suggesting that developers who code are irrelevant. In reality, for every successful no-code entrepreneur, there’s an army of brilliant developers you’ll never see on LinkedIn or Facebook celebrating their latest client win. Some of them are even unpaid and do it voluntarily.
While we celebrate the rise of no-code web designers making $8K/month with Elementor sites, I would like to honor and shed light on those who made all these possible. I am not talking about the WordPress + Elementor merchants like myself, I am actually referring to the software developers who wrote and maintain the codes that power these no-code tools. Without them, we probably won’t be having a no-code conversation.
1. The WordPress Core Contributors: These guys maintained the engine that powers 43% of the web. They have commited their lives to backward compatibility, security patches, and seamless updates has created the most stable foundation for millions of no-code infrastructure.
2. The Elementor Development Team: 1 in every 8-11 websites is designed with Elementor. The Elementor team didn’t just build a page builder, they re-engineered the world’s most famous visual programming language, the drag-and-drop.
Their drag-and-drop interface translates design intentions into clean, performant code that rivals hand-coded websites. The widget ecosystem that they’ve created has given non-coders superpowers. And the clean structure have helped Indie Elementor Developers like WPMET to take web development to the next level.
I eagerly anticipate the formal launch of the Elementor V4 Editor (Currently in Alpha). That will completely slap critics like the african star apple, and give Elementor even more strides. I am monitoring the progress with so much enthusiasm.
3. The Crocoblock Innovators: These people started as a small group in Ukraine in 2018. They saw the gap between static designs and dynamic web applications.
They built JetEngine, a formidable Elementor Pro companion, JetSmartFilters, and dynamic content widgets, have all made it possible for no-code creators to build sophisticated, database-driven websites that would have required full-stack development just years ago.
4. The Security Guards: These comprise the Plugin Security Researchers. They fish out and patch security vulnerabilities. has protected millions of websites from exploitation.
Software like Wordfence, Sucuri, Virus Total have contributed immensely to penetration testing and security audits that have made WordPress a trustworthy platforms, secure enough for businesses and governmental organizations like the WhiteHouse, and the NASA to bet their futures on.
To the WordPress Core Security Team: Your proactive approach to threat detection, your security hardening guidelines, and your rapid response to emerging threats have created an ecosystem where entrepreneurs can sleep peacefully, knowing their sites are almost always protected (unless they opt out of auto-update).
5. The Problem Solvers
These are the plugin developers who asked “What If?”:
What if designers could create custom post types and taxonomies visually?
What if form building didn’t require backend knowledge?
What if e-commerce could be as simple as drag-and-drop?
What if animations and interactions could be added without JavaScript?
Your “what ifs” became the tools that democratized web development.
6. The Accessibility Champions
These are the empathetic developers who code for inclusion. They have successfully ensured that no-code tools generate accessible markup code by default.
Their commitment to semantic HTML, ARIA attributes, and keyboard navigation means that when someone builds their first website with Elementor, it’s already more accessible than many hand-coded sites.
7. The Performance Engineers made it possible for visual builders to generate clean, fast-loading code.
For every web builder plugin for WordPress, there is a small segment of their user base that push the developers to prioritize performance whilst still providing enough features such as GSAP integration, etc. For example, a recent uprising among a section of we Elementor users, caused the Elementor Devs to go back to the drawing board to develop the new Elementor V4 Editor, which would soon be released in Beta. It features true class-based web development, a far more robust responsive capabilities, whilst still ensuring that performance is noticeably increased by stripping off unnecessary markups in the HTML source code.
Over the years, Elementor has put efforts in optimization by working on performance-focused feautures like lazy loading, widget-specific caching settings, DOM optimization,and image optimizations. All these to ensure that no-code doesn’t have to mean slow code.
8. The Bridge Builders: These set of devs didn’t just build tools, they build bridges.
Bridges between technical possibility and creative vision.
Between complex code and simple interfaces.
Between the developer shortage and business needs.
Their APIs, hooks, and extensible architectures mean that when no-code hits its limits, there’s always a path forward.
You have created the perfect symbiosis for web automations to extend beyond writing cron jobs, and beyond the limits of WordPress functions. You have empowered non-coders while keeping the door open for developers to extend and enhance.
Coders are the Real MVPs, not no-coders. While no-code web designers and entrepreneurs showcase their success stories, the coders are already debugging compatibility issues across thousands of hosting environments in preparation for the next no-code software version.
They must also write documentation that turns confusion into clarity. They responding to support tickets in the WordPress Plugin Support community at odd hours, and they refactor legacy code to support new features.
This post is a “Thank You note” that’s long overdue. The no-code revolution didn’t happen because coding became irrelevant. It happened because brilliant developers made their expertise accessible to everyone else.
You’ve proven that the highest form of technical skill isn’t writing complex code but abstracting the complexities, so others can focus on solving the real-life problems.
Every success story in the no-code space is built on your shoulders. Every entrepreneur who escaped the traditional gatekeeping of web development owes their freedom to your code.
The future of web development isn’t no-code vs. code. It’s the beautiful collaboration between those who build the tools and those who use them to build their dreams.
These are my thoughts!
