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

A WP Engine customer filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Automattic and its CEO, Matt Mullenweg, for failing to fulfill their responsibility to keep the WordPress platform freely accessible.

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has called out WP Engine for benefiting from WordPress's open-source model without contributing enough to the project.

And that investment, marked at $250 million, eventually became a major point of contention for Mullenweg. In Mullenweg's view, WP Engine failed to invest some of its success back into WordPress.

WP Engine was asked for comment, but did not respond. Asked whether the move would also hurt users of WordPress, Mullenweg said that he didn’t think it would. “WordPress is great software.

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Further, Mullenweg made a series of posts against WP Engine on social media, and wrote a blog post about SCF, stating that WordPress forked ACF to remove “commercial upsell and a security ...

Mullenweg added in a blog post that WP Engine had only contributed 40 hours per week to the WordPress.org open source project and said that it is “…setting a poor standard that others may look ...

It also took control of the company's ACF plugin, forking and renaming it to Secure Custom Fields. WP Engine then sued Automattic and Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power.

Matt Mullenweg says his feud with WP Engine is just "a small chapter" of his wider mission to democratize publishing. By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly • 11/18/24 12:12pm ...

WordPress’s Costly Trademark Battle With WP Engine Is ‘Worth It’, Says CEO Matt Mullenweg "We're at war with them. We're either going to go brick-by-brick and take every single one of their ...