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

Facepalm: Automattic and WP Engine are competing for control of the WordPress.org project, and users will bear the consequences. After its initial legal setback, Matt Mullenweg's company has now ...

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Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is fighting with WP Engine, one of the leading WordPress hosting companies. This situation could spell trouble for WordPress users.

The WordPress operator Automattic must allow the hosting service WP Engine to access WordPress.org resources and plugins. This was decided by a Californian district court in a preliminary injunction.

A California district court judge has granted a preliminary injunction to WP Engine. The order asks WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and WordPress.com owner Automattic to restore WP Engine's access ...

A California district court judge on Tuesday ruled that Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg must restore WP Engine's access to WordPress.org, a theme and plug-in repository owned by Mullenweg ...

A California district court judge on Tuesday ruled that Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg must restore WP Engine's access to WordPress.org, a theme and plug-in repository owned by Mullenweg. Judge ...

Although Automattic representatives “press WP Engine to identify specific contracts, there is no credible argument that contracts do not exist between WP Engine and its customers,” Martinez ...

Automattic must also restore WP Engine's control of its popular ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) plugin. It also removes a checkbox implemented by Automattic that made people say they had no ...

Yesterday, WP Engine enjoyed a legal victory when California District Court Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ordered Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources and ...