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Commercial spin-outs usually damage their underlying open-source projects
“The history of most companies coming out of open source projects is that the open source project really suffers.”
Kelly says WordPress is not built for complex bespoke websites
“It's not built for
Bespoke websites.
So inevitably if people do a lot of development with WordPress, they get to a point where they just are tired of fighting with all these built in themes and you know like eventually the site design requirements get to a poi…”
Mullenweg models Automattic's WordPress strategy on Google's Android and Pixel ecosystem
“Think of it kind of like Google with Android. Like, they'll make their Pixel phones, so we'll make some versions of WordPress that we think are the best in the world. But very key to our strategy is also working with every other manufacturer out there and ever…”
Gutenberg lets anyone build New York Times-style rich layouts for free
“What New York Times spent probably tens of thousands of dollars to do a few years ago will be able to enable anyone with WordPress and Gutenberg to do just kind of out of the box.”
Skatell: Media companies are abandoning custom CMS builds for WordPress
“And I think what you're starting to see is those media companies are now abandoning their own CMS, and they're moving to things like WordPress.”
Wilson claims Webboss is more sophisticated natively than WordPress
“I mean, our, I mean, our system does much more than WordPress. I mean, if you get WordPress is a page editor, isn't it? A lot of plugins and other people have made web bosses, a very sophisticated page editor with all the plugins you need already built into it…”
Le Cunff ignores keyword research when writing for Ness Labs
“The only SEO optimization that I do is inside of WordPress. I write an article first, and then I just make sure that I'm not doing any newbie mistakes. So I just make sure the links are all right. The titles are okay. The URL is fine. So it's basic optimizatio…”
Rhyne: Traditional MOOCs Suffer Low Engagement Because of Format
“Typically like a WordPress, large MOOC with lots of units, and they had really bad engagement on those courses. Simply not because of how they built it, but because of The format.”
Kelly predicts Craft CMS plugin store will support 20 full-time developers
“So it's not, you know, it's no WordPress, but we do expect once the plugin store hits and some of these plugin developers feel more incentivized to actually charge for their work. We'll probably have a good handful, you know, 20 people or so that are making, y…”
Changing the editor is the most controversial task in WordPress history
“Changing the editor, since that's really in many ways the heart of WordPress, Is by far the most controversial thing you can do, and the hardest, because lots of people are very used to how WordPress has worked for the past 14 years, and there's lots of opinio…”
Blair: Enterprise websites cannot be built on Squarespace or Weebly
“You can't really build like an enterprise level site on, on Squarespace or Weebly or something like that. Whereas like something like WordPress, you can.”
Vora: MalCare Spent At Most $50 on Lunch or Ebooks to Engage Influencers
“At max, I would have spent maybe just 50 dollars for lunch or bought an ebook worth 15, 20 dollars to open a dialogue with them. But we spent time in, in building the relationship.”
Sweetwood praises WordPress as his favorite tool for building Insurious
“Favorite online tool actually is WordPress. Love WordPress. Very flexible, easy to build the platform and work it.”
Nazarian: TenWeb earns around $60,000 monthly from legacy plugins
“We have around 60,000 per month revenue
From plugins.”
TenWeb's team built 60 WordPress plugins with 25 million downloads
“We previously developed WordPress plugins and built numerous plugins, more than 60 plugins with more than twenty-five million total downloads.”
Joost de Valk: Yoast hit 1M users before launching paid tier
“I started out with a free plugin and had a million users and then decided maybe I should make some money from it.”
Castos Acquired a WordPress Plugin With 15,000 Active Installs
“So the plugin had about 15,000 active installs in WordPress at the time.”
Event Espresso powers over $100M in monthly WordPress ticket sales
“We're also powering over a hundred million ticket sales per month from our Venespresso platform for WordPress.”
Moraitakis: Workable gained thousands of visits quickly from unoptimized WordPress posts
“We just really put the WordPress ad out there and just put them there with no organization or nothing. A few months later, we were getting thousands of hits of them.”
Jacobi: Joomla powers over 3% of the global internet, second to WordPress
“But as a whole, Joomla runs over three percent of the entire global internet. So it's actually only second to WordPress.”
Mirčić: 90% of CMS Users Only Need Basic Text and Image Features
“Because in 90% of cases, people use only the basics, you know, image, video, and text, you know.
So they don't need old bells and whistles of WordPress or, you know,
The more advanced CMSs.”