A hot potato: The ongoing drama over WordPress and copyright is heating up. Automattic wants WP Engine to pay for using WordPress open-source technology. However, the hosting service demands that the ...

CEO Marenweg and Mike Little developed WordPress as a fork of b2/cafelog. After dropping out of college in 2004, CEO Marenweg continued developing WordPress and founded Automattic in December 2005. As ...

Beginners tend to confuse WordPress.com and WordPress.org, which, more often than not, leads them to choose the one which is not right for their needs. WordPress.com and WordPress.org are, in fact, ...

Finding the right website builder for your business is important. You want to build professional-looking pages that will share your brand and vision with your customers, while also enjoying SEO, ...

Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract payments for use of the trademark for the open source WordPress software.

The confusion between WordPress.com versus WordPress.org continues to rage. This persistent confusion leads many people to choose the wrong blogging platform for their needs. Before we dig deeper, let ...

Any disruption at all by wordpress.org to support Automattic is absolutely indefensible. It's supposed to be neutral. It is not. Mullenweg is using wordpress.org in a self-dealing way that will ...

The move likely won’t have direct impact on most enterprise users, but indirect impact — which could be just as bad — is a definite possibility. Editor’s note: On Jan. 3, 2025, WordPress.org staff ...