StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

WordPress

5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 7, 2020 by Rob Walling · said 119 times in 42 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Rob Walling (78), Noah Kagan (7), Craig Hewitt (7), Derrick Reimer (3), Ruben Gamez (2), John Howard (2), Einar Vollset (2), Mike Taber (1)

tap a year for its mentions
002054010202020212022202320242025episodesmentions
0510202020212022202320242025episodes it came up in
002.55510202020212022202320242025episodesmentions per episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 39 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
2023 28 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
2022 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2021 14 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
2020 33 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about WordPress, oldest first

Jul 7, 2020 positive
Opinion
Rob Walling prefers WordPress over Squarespace for blogging and podcasting
“I still think WordPress is better for blogging and for podcasting because of the serial nature of it and just how many good plugins it has.”
Rob Walling Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 28:05 Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
Nov 18, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walling: Ranking in WordPress plugin repository is easier than Google search
“It's not that hard to rank high in the WordPress repository. There's just a little bit of WordPress SEO. That algorithm is not, it's not as complex as Google. It's not actually that smart.”
Rob Walling Nov 18, 2020 ▶ 6:56 Episode 523 | Breaking Through Plateaus, Entrepreneurship for Kids, Common Bootstrapper
Mar 16, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vollset: Acquirers discount SaaS valuation multiples for WordPress-only businesses
“At least last year or two, it's been the case that like a B to B SaaS business Which usually selling for some sort of an ARR multiple gets discounted if it's a service, it's a business that serves WordPress clients, you know, exclusively.”
Einar Vollset Mar 16, 2021 ▶ 30:42 Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
Oct 15, 2024 negative
Opinion
Walling: WordPress has shown it is an aggressive, unfriendly platform
“Given that WordPress has shown that they are going to be aggressive, not making themselves out to be a friendly platform right now.”
Rob Walling Oct 15, 2024 ▶ 17:27 Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
Oct 15, 2024 negative
Insight
Walling: Relying on Google SEO is riskier than technical infrastructure dependencies
“So the reason I have this as number six is that if bubble 10 X their pricing or had a big outage, you could rebuild that. And if you're hosted on AWS or using SendGrid or using WordPress, you can rebuild it. The risks are there, but they're lower than if you l…”
Rob Walling Oct 15, 2024 ▶ 21:22 Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 300 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more