I just started on my first job as a web developer and the company uses wordpress for CMS. Is it okay to start learning web development with Wordpress?

I mean there's nothing wrong with learning WordPress if your company uses it

As well as learning it, I'd highly recommend at least having a poke around with "normal" web dev stuff - gives you a much broader knowledge base :)

Welcome to devRant!

Well, Wordpress is one of those things. Many like it, many hate it. I don't like it and would never use it again.

If the company uses it as a CMS, you probably won't have any other choice. On the other hand, you'll learn a lot, especially what you shouldn't do as a webdev.

Wordpress unfortunately is horrible for CMS. It’s a freaking blogging platform at the end of the day.
No more, no less.

Yes you can throw 100 plugins at it and make it a CMS, Ecommerce Platform and an email spamming junk of shit but why?

As for beginning out in the dev world, then yes I’ll admit it does do some things good natively, so if you are using it at a core level over using it at “1 click theme install and 30 odd plugins that need n * 200000 dependencies” then yes there is potential for you, otherwise you’ll be added to my list of dev types I dislike.

Keep in mind there is a lot more to web then just wordpress and keep learning new things. Don’t get stuck as a wordpress dev.

I used to be WordPress dev. It will serve you as great place to learn. Just don't get stuck there.

Thanks for your comments, guys! I appreciate it and no worries on me getting stuck with WP because I won't. There are lot of things for me to learn at this stage. Great to have this kind of community :)