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About that brawl between the WordPress co-founder and WP Engine…
WordPress has been the most popular content management system for years — and WP Engine was one of the most popular WordPress hosting services around. Not long ago, everyone was happy. Now, it's a miserable open-source business war. What happened?
Mullenweg briefly banned WP Engine from accessing WordPress.org resources, affecting updates for 1.5 million websites. It’s also, as tech journalist Ian Betterridge observed on Threads, “Fascinating that Mullenweg, on the one hand, claims WP Engine has contributed nothing to WordPress, and on the other reckons its plugin code is so valuable to the community it needs to be taken over.” Additionally, WordPress.org — the nonprofit arm of WordPress — implemented a mandatory checkbox on its login page requiring users to confirm they are not affiliated with WP Engine.
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