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WP Engine Expands Legal Fight Against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg with Antitrust Claims
WP Engine claims Automattic and Mullenweg have “willfully acquired and maintained” monopoly power in the WordPress ecosystem, impacting CMSs, hosting services, custom fields plugins, and plugin distribution.
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Automattic’s New ‘WP Engine Tracker’ Site Fuels Ongoing Tensions with WP Engine
WP Engine has asked Automattic to shut down the site, which offers a downloadable list of all the domains the company hosts, including staging sites.
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Festinger Vault Crowdfunding Legal Battle With Automattic After Contentious Site’s Shutdown
The founder behind the contentious site that sells nulled plugin and themes is aiming to raise €10,000 to cover costs for the next court hearing on November 27.
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Automattic and Mullenweg Move to Dismiss Majority of WP Engine’s Claims in Lawsuit
Automattic and Mullenweg have also requested that parts of WP Engine’s complaint related to Mullenweg’s public commentary about the company be struck under California’s anti-SLAPP law.
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Automattic removes WP Fusion Lite from WordPress.com after trademark dispute
Automattic has removed the WP Fusion Lite plugin from WordPress.com after its developer, Jack Arturo, accused the company of trademark infringement.
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WP Engine Files Injunction to Halt Mullenweg’s Attacks and Regain Access to WordPress.org
WP Engine has filed a preliminary injunction in a U.S. court to stop Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s public attacks and restore the hosting company’s access to WordPress.org.
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WordPress.org Takes Control of ACF, Sparking Community Outrage
WordPress.org has taken over the free version of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin in a move WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has justified for security reasons, prompting backlash.
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Mary Hubbard returns to Automattic to lead WordPress project as new executive director
The WordPress project is set to welcome a new executive director later this month. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, has announced Mary Hubbard will assume the role on October 21. Hubbard is no stranger to WordPress, having worked for Automattic from 2020 to 2023. She started as the General Manager of…
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Automattic hires WPGraphQL creator, plugin to become canonical
WPGraphQL is set to become a canonical plugin at WordPress.org. Its creator and maintainer, Jason Bahl, announced today that after three and a half years at WP Engine, he has accepted an offer from rival hosting company Automattic to continue his work on the project. Started in 2016, WPGraphQL is a free, open source plugin…
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ACF patches vulnerability following Automattic disclosure misstep
ACF developers at WP Engine have patched a vulnerability affecting both the free and Pro versions of the popular plugin after Automattic broke with established security reporting practices and disclosed the issue on X. ACF 6.3.8 patches an arbitrary code execution vulnerability involving Post Type and Taxonomy metabox callbacks where a user with ACF admin…
