Tweets From Derek Ashauer  ## Metadata - Author: [[@DerekAshauer on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Derek Ashauer - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/DerekAshauer ## Document Notes ## Highlights - I’ll ask yet again: is freemium dead in #WordPress? It surely can’t work the same as it has, that seems pretty clear now https://t.co/mt39nZPZEx ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/DerekAshauer/status/1848961652596871203)) - My wife had an idea for a site (basically an affiliate site). She vibe coded it with Replit but didn’t want to pay their fees to launch with a custom domain and also realized a blog site would be easier to maintain. “I tried WP and they just have crappy templates and don’t want ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/DerekAshauer/status/1951844685649162573)) ## New Highlights added 2026-08-05 at 9:40 AM - My current conspiracy theory 🤪 WP is not declining for *real* sites. It’s being used less by shady people. Many moons ago I took a class on how to make money sites using SEO (I was in a low point - divorce - and desperate for new income ideas). They preached having your own ([View Tweet](https://x.com/DerekAshauer/status/2082846651119710256))