Automattic announced it is minimizing support for the WordPress.org CMS project, framing the withdrawal of resources as a positive change to strengthen WordPress. The announcement attributed the ...

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) just invested a half-million dollars in the WordPress community through a donation to The WP Community Collective, an initiative ...

WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says is ‘strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem.’ WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says ...

It’s a new year, but drama in the WordPress community keeps going. Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com, said that it would reduce its contribution to WordPress core, the open source ...

Three recent events may signal the direction in which the WordPress community is evolving and have the feel of pieces falling into place. What’s happening isn’t a change in the WordPress community ...

The WordPress community is embroiled in a dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, a WordPress hosting service. Mullenweg criticised WP Engine for disabling revision history to ...

Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and CEO of its parent Automattic sparked a contentious conflict that he acknowledged could potentially culminate in the shutdown of WordPress.org. According to ...

WordPress.org users are forced to confirm they are not "affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise" before registering a new account or logging in. Photo by Farhat Altaf / Unsplash ...