Definitely don't go back to college to get a CS degree. At this point in your career the only thing employers want to know about is your previous job experience. I have a bachelors degree in computer science and have never once been asked about it in a job interview.
> Recruiters contact me a lot about FT jobs but any interviews I get through them never turn into offers.
You mention this almost as a side note but I think its pretty clear thats your problem and not the "job-hopping". If job-hopping was the problem then you wouldn't even be getting interviews because they can already see that from your CV when you apply.
Whats going wrong in the interviews? Do you ever get feedback from the companies that reject you? Are there questions they ask you that you stumble on? This is what you need to be focusing on. A CS degree won't help you one bit with that problem.
It sounds like you have been working on fairly run-of-mill CRUD based applications that don't require that much thought. Can you be more picky about what jobs you take? Try getting jobs which will build up your experience rather than simply pay the bills. That way when you go to an interview you might sound more enthusiastic about your past experience - this will come across well to an employer.
Also try and pick a field and specialise in it. You mention LAMP, Ruby on Rails, React - all of those are good platforms to work in with good employment opportunities but maybe you should specialise in frontend or backend. Also I would ditch the wordpress & magento stuff.
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