What WordPress Plugins Are No Longer Receiving Updates Through the WordPress...
As part of the mess going on with WordPress, plugin developers are choosing or being forced to provide updates for their plugins outside of the WordPress Plugin Directory. This creates a big security...
View ArticleMinutes of WordPress Foundation 2024 Meeting Highlight How Intertwined It Is...
In a cease and desist letter dated September 23, a lawyer from Perkins Coie wrote that they were writing while representing “Automattic Inc. and WooCommerce, Inc.” One section of that was titled...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Is Complaining That WP Engine Hasn’t Donated to the WordPress...
Trust is a big part of security and trust is in short supply with the head of WordPress these days. He keeps saying things that are problematic. At the top are the outright lies to highly misleading...
View ArticleThe WordPress Must Win Open Letter Pretends That WordPress’ Lack of...
WordPress has a significant problem with toxic positivity. We have seen that over and over in the security space. Where trying to have a discussion about problems and how they could be fixed leads to...
View ArticleMatt Mulleweg’s Lawyer Says that WordPress.org Is Not WordPress
We have been following the confusing situation with what WordPress.org is and who owns the website hosted at wordpress.org. That has included Matt Mullenweg disagreeing Automattic’s lawyers over that,...
View ArticleWP Tavern’s Nathan Wrigley Highlights Duo of Companies Handling Security...
A new legal filing from lawyers representing Matt Mullenweg claims that he loves the WordPress community. That is hard to square with so much of what he does. For more than a decade, he has run a...
View ArticleThe Executive Directory of WordPress.org Is an Employee of Automattic
On Monday, the new Executive Directory of WordPress.org started on the job. The position raises serious question about what is going on with WordPress. The WordPress post by Matt Mullenweg announcing...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Claimed He Makes Money Off of WordPress.org
The current situation with WordPress has made the control of the website for WordPress, WordPress.org, an important security issue. Recently Matt Mullenweg has claimed in multiple places that he...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need to Update to New Major Releases of WordPress to Get WordPress...
Recently, we ran across someone who was asking why they needed to keep updating WordPress itself when they all they needed were security updates and not new features. What they didn’t know is that you...
View ArticleFor Some Reason Automattic Emailed WP Engine’s CEO About Security...
As part of the whole situation with Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, there has been a reoccurring issue. His odd and sometimes possibly illegal interactions with the CEO of WP Engine, Heather Brunner....
View ArticleWP Tavern’s Latest Author Got the Job in Part by Writing “Ad” Promoting...
While the timeline of the public part of Matt Mullenweg’s extortion campaign against WP Engine sometimes starts with his talk at WordCamp US on September 20, there were two events that happened before...
View ArticleA Month On, a Glaring Problem With Five for the Future Pledges Hasn’t Been...
When Matt Mullenweg publicly started going after WP Engine one issue that got a lot of attention was the disparity between how much time he’s company Automattic was claiming to sponsor its employee...
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WordPress Plugin Review Team’s Stance That “Forked Premium Plugins Are Not...
Since Matt Mullenweg announced a takeover of WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) on the WordPress plugin directory on October 12, there have been questions if the features of the paid Pro version...
View ArticleWP Engine’s Poor Security Partially Explained by CTO Who Lacks Basic Security...
In WP Engine’s lawsuit against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, examples of WP Engine using the WordPress trademark over the years also show that they have also made a big emphasis on handling security...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the WordPress Security Team or WordPress Core Security Team
In trying to cover various elements of the current situation with WordPress, we have run in to a pre-existing issue, the lack of almost any official information on the WordPress security team or teams....
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg’s Legal Filing Suggests “WordPress security team” That Took...
We have been covering a mystery surrounding the takeover of WP Engine’s Advance Custom Fields (ACF) on the WordPress Plugin Directory, who was behind in the takeover. When Matt Mullenweg announced the...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg and His Lawyers Have Very Different Estimates as to the Cost...
Recently it was made public that Matt Mullenweg personally has the ability to stop WordPress websites from getting automatically getting security updates from WordPress.org. That was exposed when he...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg Now Says That the Contribution Option of His Extortion Demand...
In late September, when WP Engine originally exposed through a cease and desist letter that Matt Mullenweg attacks on them was part of an extortion campaign against them, he almost immediately admitted...
View ArticleAutomattic’s WPScan Is Violating the Rules of the CVE Program With Advance...
As if there were not enough issue with what Automattic has done related to WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields, they are also violating the rules of the CVE program. As CVE’s website puts it, “The...
View ArticleMatt Mullenweg’s 18+ Month Timeline of Interactions About “Trademark Abuse”...
As time has gone on, a central element of Matt Mullenweg’s story of how he got to publicly attacking WP Engine has continued to crumble. That is the timeline of meetings between the two sides over a...
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