Draft:WordPress vs. WP Engine
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| WordPress vs. WP Engine | |||
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| Date | September 20, 2024 – present | ||
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Matt Mullenweg, CEO and founder | |||
In late September 2024, Matt Mullenweg—founder and CEO of the WordPress Foundation and Automattic, the commercial company that leads development of WordPress, the most popular web content management system (CMS)—led both organizations into a public dispute with WP Engine—a web hosting service that hosts websites built on WordPress, rivalling Automattic's own WordPress.com hosting service[1]—accusing the latter of exploiting the "WordPress" trademark and profiting off the WordPress ecosystem while not contributing to it sufficiently. WP Engine, in turn, accused Mullenweg and Automattic of extortion. In response, Mullenweg moved to ban WP Engine from accessing WordPress.org resources, and WP Engine filed a lawsuit against Mullenweg and Automattic.
Background
[edit]Powering around 40% of all websites and 80% of the CMS market, the free−and−open-source WordPress is one of the most popular technologies for creating websites.[2]
History
[edit]Lawsuit
[edit]- ^ Roth, Emma (2024-09-27), The messy WordPress drama, explained, retrieved 2024-12-14
- ^ Mehta, Ivan (2024-12-11), The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained, retrieved 2024-12-14