Everyone please note, I am no longer a WordPress Expert.... but an Expert in WordPress®️ p.s. I hope I got this right #wpdrama

My heart is breaking. 💔

You know who is about to get screwed big time. Small hobbiests, small nonprofits who have absolutely no idea WTF is going on between Automattic and WP Engine.

In case anyone needs a local backup of the WP plugin repo: svn co plugins.svn.wordpress.org

You are not alone brother. x.com/AkaiEnso/statu…

Same! I've been a customer for 8 years, which is how I convinced my new employer a year ago to move all of our WordPress clients over to WP Engine. Now how do I explain this to them and the hundreds of volunteer non-profit Rotary International-based website owners we support, and who trust

Let me see if I understand this: Pressable, which is the hosting company owned by Automattic, which is run by Matt Mullenweg, who just completely shut down core functionality to WP Engine and screwed all of the WordPress site owners on that platform without warning anyone in the

Pressable Hi FTC please look into this clear cut case of anticompetitive behavior. Thanks.

In this community, there is always a way forward: mitchcanter.me/update-wordpre…

No! At this point I'm afraid I'd wake up with a Joomla site, and the only place I can go to complain about it will be Google+.

Here’s what is really happening. Someone is hosting a website on WP Engine that someone else needs to get hacked. By turning off the ability to update plugins and themes - this increases the likelihood of this happening. It creates a clean evidentiary trail. None of this

Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, has misused his control of WordPress to interfere with WP Engine customers’ access to WordPress.org, asserting that he did so because WP Engine filed litigation against Wordpress.org. This simply is not true. Our Cease &

Yes. Or at least I used to think so.

I believe that companies, countries, and frankly ALL organizations should be run with a balance of intelligence, experience, compassion, and emotion. And in my experience, the leaders most likely to possess that balance are women.

"Could?" Did you see the ridiculous contract buyout offer posted by Pressable Just hours after WP Engine was denied access to WordPress? Pressible is ALSO owned by Automattic. How could that be seen as anything OTHER than intentionally anti-competitive?

I thought I was the only one who used that particular Self-Help hack... 😱

AutomaticCSS.com courses (or really, any video tutorial by Kevin Geary) and me! 🤓

1982. Yes, really. Shout out to COMPUTE! magazine, Apple IIe in the school, and the Atari 600 XL I bought with lawn mowing money! arstechnica.com/staff/2018/11/…

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