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So long WordPress

This has been a hard post for me to write after participating in WordPress since before I even started a career in tech and, until 3 months ago, for my entire tech career. That said, it has been in the making for quite a while now and it is time that I make it official. I’ve officially left the WordPress project after 14+ years of contributing including: Meetup and WordCamp Speaker Meetup and WordCamp Organizer Core code contributor Plugin developer Photo contributor Over 11 years as mostly the sole moderator for the official WordPress jobs site Why leave now? It’s true that I had largely been moving away from the WordPress project since at least 2017. I think that is when I realized just how dishonest so much of the “community” around WordPress really is.

The truth is that WordPress is, at best, past its peak and we’re going to see more fights between the companies in its orbit as they each battle for a larger slice of a shrinking pie. With this action I finally see that there is no helping the situation and I fear that my continued involvement can only serve to signal to others that their own work and efforts are both safe and worthwhile. Should the project find new life, preferably with lesser ambitions that a huge share of the whole internet, and competent governance in the spirit of the virtues it claims to represent I will rethink my position.

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