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Biilmann: WordPress has reached the end of its innovation cycle
“I mean, I think WordPress is, is in a challenging position where they are kind of like in the end of their innovation cycle. And I don't think they're in a great position to respond to all of this disruption. So I think like it'll be seen more and more as a bi…”
Joost de Valk: Founders are stupid to use any CMS besides WordPress
“And honestly, WordPress is out there. So if you, if you're going to use another CMS, I think you're pretty stupid because every other CMS is going to cost you more money.”
De Valk: WordPress powers over 40% of websites versus Shopify's 2-3%
“More than 40% of websites on the web are WordPress sites. And companies like Shopify, and I heard your podcast with Toby, which was awesome, but Shopify has like two, three percent of the market, if that.”
Startups Should Prioritize Content Problem-Solving Over Custom Blog Design
“Rather than go run out of the gate, create some custom, beautiful blog, better is just use out of the box tools, you know, WordPress, Squarespace, whatever, and just really focus on what you're putting out the door. And for a company, it should be matching, ba…”
Yoast reached one million active users as a free hobby plugin
“Is that the plugin became really big, so it had like a million users. WordPress was growing quite fast, and I suddenly had on this free plugin that I built as a hobby, a million users, and I was spending way too much time supporting it.”
Mullenweg: Early Google survey showed WordPress on 0.8% of websites
“And shortly after that, maybe a year or two after that, we started to see WordPress show up in like whole internet numbers. And I remember the first time Google did a survey and they found this weird header in HTTP responses that they were like, we're not sure…”
Mullenweg: WordPress originated from forking the abandoned b2/cafelog software
“I started using some software called B-II Cafe Log, actually from a developer out of Corsica, France, and you know, started volunteering on the farms, forums, helping other people out, contributing code, and then what happened was that software actually was ab…”