The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks. Just a day after WordPress hosting service WP Engine sent a cease-and-desist notice to ...

The WordPress community is embroiled in a dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, a WordPress hosting service. Mullenweg criticised WP Engine for disabling revision history to ...

WordPress itself is an open source website building platform that powers over 40% of websites, and individuals and businesses can use it to run their own websites. Many businesses have sprung up ...

This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case and dispute are ongoing. The community around WordPress, one of the most ...

On Friday, WordPress.com maker Automattic filed its counterclaims in the lawsuit initiated by hosting company WP Engine in October 2024, which had accused Automattic and its CEO, Matt Mullenweg, of ...

A long, long time ago, I built websites by hand using the vi editor to write HTML. It was hard. Then along came NoteTab and Bluefish, which made writing and editing HTML easier but still a pain.

The WordPress ecosystem is facing challenging times as a bitter dispute between the co-founder of the website building software, Matt Mullenweg, is engaged in a legal fight with WP Engine – a hosting ...

Automattic, the company that develops WordPress, has criticized WordPress-focused hosting service WP Engine for freeloading on the WordPress ecosystem. Following Automattic's sending a cease and ...

WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says is ‘strip-mining the WordPress ecosystem.’ WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg is going after a rival hosting firm he says ...

WordPress.org has banned WP Engine from accessing its resources and stopped delivering plugin updates to websites hosted on the platform, urging impacted users to choose other hosting providers. The ...