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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 CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to ...
Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says ...
Matt Mullenweg, co-developer of the open source content management system 'WordPress', publicly criticized 'WP Engine', a commercial hosting service built on WordPress, which caused a backlash ...
Mullenweg answered: “…I think that’s part of the beauty that something like this can be written with the APIs that WordPress has.
Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, has confirmed the indefinite suspension of Tumblr's migration to WordPress, prioritizing user-focused improvements instead.
Tumblr is ditching — or, at least, suspending — its plan to migrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that also means pausing ...
A collective of former WordPress developers and contributors backed by the Linux Foundation has launched the FAIR Package Manager, a new and independent distribution system for trusted WordPress ...
While de Valk shared the view that more equitable contributions to WordPress were needed, he disagreed with Mullenweg’s methods. “We stopped talking pretty much after that, because I didn’t ...
Several of the biggest names in website hosting, building, and growth attended including WordPress.com, Hostinger, Elementor, Bluehost, Google, and Yoast. Highlights included some excellent talks from ...