WordPress

“And there are other open source projects that have this structure. None of them have been successful as WordPress.”

“I think it was React that they were doing something with the licensing or like a patent restriction on. And the WordPress community actually got Meta to change that and reverse something they were doing to lock it down.”

“If or when I'm gone, I don't want to pass it to a committee. I want to pass it to someone else who can, you know, have a role similar to mine, and really sort of, ah, try to be a steward.”

“They would refer to themselves as WordPress engine and client meetings and other things.”

“So to save money, they were actually turning off features like revisions. So a cool part about WordPress that actually one of my favorite features is every change to every single post or page is saved forever, just like Wikipedia. So if you make a mistake, you…”

“Now WordPress has grown to be, yeah, over 40% of all websites in the world, which is 10 x to number two, which right now is Shopify.”

“WordPress.com, having a free version of WordPress that has introduced, you know, over a hundred million people to the software in a way that you could just sign up for free.”

“Actually we're in the process right now of migrating the half a billion Tumblr sites to WordPress. Probably one of the largest data migrations.”

“98% of all the core developers have stayed and contributed and are working on the next version and are supportive”

“I don't know how much of WordPress's code right now is AI assisted or something like that. But I think over the next five years, it definitely approaches maybe a majority.”

“It has about 700,000 WordPress installs. There's a company called WP Engine.”

“Gutenberg is a huge part of why WordPress is relevant today. And it's actually an open source project we do. It's the block editor. It's actually bigger than WordPress. You know, because it's not just used on WordPress. It's used on every WordPress site, but a…”

“You know, we haven't had a remote exploit in, you know, knock on wood, like I think five years, six years or something.”

“And again, you don't have freedom unless you're building on open source. That's why more and more companies and people are choosing if they're gonna build a business on top of something else, if you build on an open source, you have that guarantee. Even if you…”

“WordPress was actually a fork of abandoned open source project called B two.”

“You know, the core features of a CMS, you can kind of write with a few developers in a few weeks or something. Like it's kind of not, you know, it's basically correct operations. But to replicate those 60,000 plugins and themes, gosh, no one's done it. It's a …”