Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, has confirmed the indefinite suspension of Tumblr's migration to WordPress, prioritizing user-focused improvements instead.

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 ...

Tumblr is ditching — or, at least, suspending — its plan to migrate over to WordPress. Relatedly, that also means pausing ...

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

Mullenweg’s Automattic already reduced their contributions to core, prompting a WordPress developer attending WordCamp Asia 2025 to plead with Matt Mullenweg to increase Automattic’s ...

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.

Since September 2024, WordPress, led by Matthew Mullenweg, has been locked in a battle with WP Engine over licensing and contributions to the WordPress community.

Mullenweg responded to the lawsuit by launching increasingly vindictive attacks, including barring a popular plugin maintained by WP Engine, Advanced Custom Fields, from the WordPress.org ...

Mullenweg’s post, asserting that WP Engine’s defensive lawsuit could potentially shutter WordPress.org and drag on for multiple years, was not well-received.

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of the open ...