Tag Archives: Matt Mullenweg

To WordPress

Posted on October 26, 2024 by

I used to love WordPress unconditionally. Then Gutenberg replaced Calypso and the user experience became quite poor. Then WordPress.com rejigged their subscription plans, got it wrong, and fortunately switched back. Finally, Matt Mullenweg’s actions and words of late have really … Continue reading →

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Off the rails

Posted on October 4, 2024 by

Either Matt Mullenweg’s screws have fallen off or I deeply overestimated how sensible a person I thought he was. On October 3, Mullenweg wrote on his blog that Automattic had offered those of its employees who disagreed with his actions … Continue reading →

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Matt Mullenweg v. WP Engine escalates

Posted on September 25, 2024 by

Update, September 26, 2024: WordPress.org has banned websites hosted on WP Engine from accessing its resources. As someone put it on X, this is Matt Mullenweg dropping a giant turd into the laps of millions of WordPress users. The Matt … Continue reading →

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Matt Mullenweg v. WP Engine

Posted on September 23, 2024 by

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-developer Matt Mullenweg published a post on September 21 calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress”. For the uninitiated: WP Engine is an independent company that provides managed hosting for WordPress sites; WordPress.com is owned by … Continue reading →

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WordPress.com rolls back its botched ‘experiment’

Posted on July 22, 2022 by

So, WordPress.com has restored the family of premium plans that it had until April this year, and has done away with the controversial ‘Starter’ and ‘Pro’ plans. The announcement on the WordPress.com blog yesterday has already garnered a high 65 … Continue reading →

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The 5ftf blunder

Posted on July 16, 2022 by

Automattic owner Matt Mullenweg recently made a scene on Twitter when he called out GoDaddy as a “parasitic” organisation for profiting off of WordPress without making a sufficient number of contributions to the WordPress community and for developing a competitor … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the WordPress.com ‘Starter’ plan

Posted on May 27, 2022 by

WordPress.com announced a new ‘Starter’ plan for its users on May 25 after significant backlash from many members of its community of users that a previous price revision had completely disregarded the interests of bloggers – by which I mean … Continue reading →

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2.5 weeks since WP.com’s price revision

Posted on April 21, 2022 by

WordPress.com squandered the trust of bloggers it had accrued for almost a decade (approx. since the advent of their Calypso editor) with the decision to introduce the Pro plan the way it did. There were many proclamations – direct and … Continue reading →

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What are you doing, WordPress.com?

Posted on April 3, 2022 by

Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I’ve stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed blogger whose content is textual for the most part … Continue reading →

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An opportunity to understand the GPL license

Posted on December 22, 2016 by

Matt Mullenweg pulled up a WP-competitor for not abiding by the terms of a license that allowed it to emerge in the first place. Continue reading →

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