This is Matt’s third time on Decoder; back in 2022, we had him on twice, first to talk about Automattic and WordPress broadly ...

Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says ...

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to ...

Mullenweg also said that WP Engine is actively selling an inferior product, because the core WordPress project stores every change that is made to allow users to revert their content to a previous ...

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is “very short-staffed” amid WordPress’s ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. The WordPress co-founder took ...

Mullenweg’s comments came in a Reddit thread titled “Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP” in which he explained his side of the issue with WP Engine.

Mullenweg co-authored the WordPress software first released in 2003 and founded Automattic in 2005. Automattic operates the WordPress-based publishing platform WordPress.com.

Mullenweg also stressed that the 45 hours his team will continue to work on WordPress will make sure that security updates/patches are maintained. “Security is never going to be an issue.

Mullenweg’s answer was cautious in tone, giving the impression that he didn’t know much about the FAIR project aside from the public announcement made by the Linux Foundation.

Mullenweg, in an interview Thursday with CIO, lamented that WP Engine “could have avoided all of this for $32 million. This should have been very easy,” and he then accused WP Engine of ...

Of course, Mullenweg’s control of Automattic extends well beyond the bathroom walls. So does his control over WordPress, the open-source web-content management software that he co-created two ...

“AI should make building websites easier and faster.” I don't agree.