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. WP ...

WP Engine, upset by Mullenweg's public outbursts, sued—and late last year, it won a preliminary injunction against Mullenweg and Automattic in a federal lawsuit.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his decision to reduce his team’s weekly hours working on WordPress by 99% , from 4,000 hours to 45 hours, was designed to pressure WP Engine to drop its ...

Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress? Mullenweg’s open-source empire dominates the web. But his attack on competitor WP Engine may be putting it all at risk.

This back-and-forth intensified when Mullenweg blocked WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources, including updates for plugins and themes but the ban was lifted by judge based on the merits ...

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 ...

WP Engine then sued Automattic and Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power.The company said that Automattic demanded eight percent of its gross revenues (or donated employee time ...

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 ...

WP Engine, for its part, has denied Mullenweg’s assertions. Besides stating it has committed hundreds of thousands of hours to developing WordPress software and contributing to its ecosystem, ...