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Mikic: Webflow Agencies Struggle with Retainers Compared to WordPress
“With WordPress, you had long development times, you had maintenance, and then you can kind of scale the agency pretty easily. Whereas as we are here kind of just on a runway, like the longest client is around three to six months.”
Opinion
Mikic: Avoid hiring Webflow developers on Upwork due to unqualified talent
“I wouldn't go and hire developers on Upwork. That can be one of the hard things just because I started there, but then it became really popular looking at that there are many, that there's a lot of jobs and that the market is booming. So everybody that was a W…”
Opinion
Mikic: Webflow Is as Game-Changing Today as WordPress Was in 2008
“I feel like Webflow is probably kind of the game-changing tool as WordPress was at, let's say, in 2008, because you're going to have the possibility to build everything on your own terms.”
Insight
Geary: Outgrowing Squarespace Forces Costly Migrations to WordPress
“I can't tell you how many Websites. I've had to migrate from Wix and migrate from Squarespace because the business gets to a point where it's like, well, we're big now. We want to do this and this and this. And it's like, ah, well, you can't do that on Squares…”
Opinion
Mikic: Automated WordPress-to-Webflow migration tools deliver substandard results
“There are maybe some tools that are kind of transitioning from WordPress to Webflow, whatever, but none of them are going to give you great results and are actually going to give you the, all of the benefits Webflow has.”
Insight
Mikic: Replacing WordPress plugins on Webflow often requires custom JavaScript and APIs
“How much good the Webflow is because it doesn't have plugins that can be a downside sometimes. Because instead of paying for a plugin five bucks a month, you're going to probably be developing with JS and APIs and kind of everything on the back end to integrat…”
Assertion Supported
Mikic: Webflow CMS supports only a single folder structure depth
“If you're creating some CMS pages Kind of, you can have only one folder structure versus on WordPress, you will be able to have basically a category, then a post, then maybe another category, then another category, and then that can go pretty deep.”
Opinion
Mikic: WordPress suffers from plugin dependencies, security breaches, and fragile updates
“Initially the problem that I had with WordPress is that it was really oriented with plugins. Like you probably know, kind of anything you want to do in WordPress, you're going to require a plugin to pay for or whatever. Like it wasn't secure, like security bre…”
Assertion Supported
Mikic: WordPress powers 40-42% of global websites versus 0.5% for Webflow
“At the moment, there's around 40, 42% of websites on the world on WordPress and just 0.5% on the Webflow.”
Disclosure
Weisbrot: Replaced 15-Year-Old WordPress Site With Claude-Built Website
“I used to have a WordPress website for many years, like, 15 plus years, and I decided to rebuild my entire website using Claude, and I did so, and it's beautiful.”
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Weisbrot: Divi Has Sold Around $80M in WordPress Licenses
“I think they've sold like eighty million dollars worth of licenses.”