The WordPress project dates to 2003, after a 19-year-old Mullenweg, joined by Mike Little, decided to fork b2/cafelog, a ...

Matt Mullenweg and Automattic have enlisted one of the top U.S. law firms to handle their legal fight against WP Engine ...

Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork ...

Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco offices, Matt Mullenweg is talking to me about toilet paper. He tells me about a time he used a bathroom at Google’s Mountain View ...

This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case ...

A Motion to Intervene has been filed in the WP Engine lawsuit against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg, alleging fifteen claims and seeking monetary awards along with changes to WordPress.org’s ...

WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage them to ...

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said his decision to reduce his team’s weekly hours working on WordPress by 99% , from 4,000 hours to 45 hours, was designed to pressure WP Engine to drop its ...

Automattic blames the cutback on the “significant time and money” related to the ongoing legal battle with WP Engine. It also points to the “intense criticism” it has faced “from members of the ...

More than a quarter of the web runs on WordPress’s blogging software. Although the Texas native has built a healthy business out of parent company Automattic—it now has 500 employees and its ...

Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg said he would be deactivating the accounts of several WordPress.org community members, two of whom he says planned to spearhead a new fork of ...

At the core is a fight between WordPress' co-creator and Automattic's CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. WordPress' technology is open source and free ...