WordPress, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Benedict Evans 26Toni Cowan-Brown 4
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WordPress comes up
LLMs, links, and the death of links
- ▶ 2:23 Benedict Evans More interesting, perhaps, is WordPress saying, well, they'll integrate this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:02 Benedict Evans Follow people, and you would like, and you would repost stuff, so that was a step, major step forward after WordPress, as WordPress theoretically had kind of trackbacks, but no one ever really used or understood that, and then of course…
The Evolution of networks
- ▶ 1:07 Benedict Evans So you have, you have GeoCities, and then you have, and I'm skipping some stuff, but you have WordPress, um, which means either you have an account on a WordPress system, or you have your own domain, and your own server, and your own… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38 Benedict Evans Because if you were posting on WordPress, there was nothing on into WordPress that mean people would, that would tell people about it. 3 times in the scene
App stores: arguing like it's 2009
- ▶ 7:51 Benedict Evans This doesn't, and then the other thing was WordPress. 3 times in the scene
Shopify and digital transformation
- ▶ 3:51 Benedict Evans And yes, you could do this in 1996 or seven, except Shopify, where then WordPress made it much easier.
- ▶ 11:20 Benedict Evans People who didn't want to use WordPress, you know, it's, it's, it's small businesses going direct.
- ▶ 16:08 Benedict Evans Which is the problem with WordPress. 4 times in the scene
Bezos and the Amazon machine
- ▶ 27:13 Benedict Evans Like there's WordPress. 2 times in the scene
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 5:10 Benedict Evans But if you're not a software engineer, and you don't want to write API calls, and you kind of look at, like, Stripe's API and think, I don't really don't want to start trying to integrate that into WordPress by myself, then it's fiddly. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:12 Benedict Evans The same thing if I was to go back to using WordPress. 3 times in the scene
Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
- ▶ 24:50 Toni Cowan-Brown And yes, we'd be replacing WordPress and MailChimp. 4 times in the scene
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 6:49 Benedict Evans Um, sixty billion dollars of third party merchants routing stuff through Shopify, which is kind of ironic given it's basically a, um, a WordPress plugin. 2 times in the scene