Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork ...

Matt Mullenweg downplayed his dispute with WP Engine, saying it’s not as big a deal as people are making it out to be and ...

A WordPress scandal from 20 years ago may offer insight into Mullenweg’s resistance to criticism in his WP Engine conflict ...

Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco offices, Matt Mullenweg is talking to me about toilet paper. He tells me about a time he used a bathroom at Google’s Mountain View ...

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is “very short-staffed” amid WordPress’s ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. The WordPress co-founder took ...

The WordPress project dates to 2003, after a 19-year-old Mullenweg, joined by Mike Little, decided to fork b2/cafelog, a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The reason, when boiled down? Competition. Matt Mullenweg, who started the WordPress project in 2003 and still leads it, has long sold WordPress services through his company Automattic.

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