WPEngine Wins Injunction in βWarβ With WordPress Creator
The hosting and plugin company sued WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg alleging he interfered with its customers and restricted its access to wordpress.org.
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 world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. The core issue is the fight [β¦]
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A California district court judge on Tuesday ruled that Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg must restore WP Engineβs access to WordPress.org, a theme and plug-in repository owned by Mullenweg. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin noted that WP Engineβs access to WordPress.org, themes, plugins, and subdomains should be restored as they were on September 20, when Mullenweg [β¦]
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WPAI's products include an AI plugin maker, an assistant for site builders, and a chatbot for WordPress-related questions.
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BlackRock has cut the worth of its stake in web hosting provider Automattic by 10%, the asset manager said in its latest quarterly disclosure report. The company, which invested in Automattic during its Series E round in 2021, valued its investment in the WordPress-hosting company at $37.5 per share, down from $41.7 per share earlier [β¦]
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