WordPress.com parent company automatically changes direction … again.
on A blog post Titled “Core return” Notified Thursday night, automatically informed that it does not count on its contributions to the WordPress project. It’s even just as just said last month that 6.8 WordPress release is the last main release of all 2025.
“After quitting our regroup contributions, again, and plan strategic, we are ready to press playing and return to the WordPress project.” WordPress core, Gutenberg, PlayVersion, and WordPress.org.
Automated automatically knows much from quitting the terms in many ways WordPress used, and it is now delivered to help them “grow and grow.”
Represented by post that WordPress is currently softening 43% on the web.
It is unclear what is changed between the past and April.
However, according to the sources talking to TechCrunch, the Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg explains a year refreshing and something from the “new team of AI.” (Later references to the notice of this week WordPress forms a new team of steward to progress to AI projects.)
“I don’t think that happens without our contributions,” the post stated, according to a source of familiar with internal discussions.
Insidadors speculate more than that, and different theories are floating. Some think if Mullenweg is pressed in this move or if he knows that pulling back is bad for his business or its reputation? Others debate if this heart change involves litigar to Automattic with the WordPress Hosting Company, WP Engine, which is called in automatic an “Three “in the WordPress community and one “WordPress cancer. “
No one knows what to believe, and none of these backhannel the backhannel line of officially stated.
AUTOMATTIC is requested for additional comment.
Since 2024, the Automattic has joined a legal dispute with regard to how small, in the opinion of Mullenweg, the WP engine contributes to the WordPress project, despite the size and income and income.
He sees hosting the company that has made the open source of WordPress at work without returning. Mullenweg also said that WP machine benefits from confusion between WordPress and commercial services such as WP engine. He led this to prohibit the company from accessing WordPress.org and Sue in court for The use of unauthorized trademarks.
Simply saying, Mullenweg thinks the WP engine should pay A direct licensing fee or its contributions to the open source of WordPress project, or should not be allowed to use its trademark.
WP Engine ANSWERED that it does not assume it must be a license and that the automated misunderstanding of the trademark law, suffering automatically in return.
In the last month, Automatically placed 16% of staff, Telling structure should be easier and develop productivity and income.
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