WordPress.org has lifted its ban on hosting provider WP Engine until October 1, after putting a block on it earlier this week. The block prevented several sites from updating their plug-ins and themes ...

The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks. Just a day after WordPress hosting service WP Engine sent a cease-and-desist notice to ...

You may be aware of a bizarre feud between WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and website hosting platform WP Engine. If not, you’ll find a recap below. But things took a very silly turn today when ...

More than two decades after starting WordPress, Matt Mullenweg finds himself in the most intense battle of his career. His company, Automattic, is taking aim at buyout firm Silver Lake, the majority ...

A battle over ownership and open-source software catches WordPress users in the middle. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's a ...

There's been another turn in Automattic and WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s ongoing legal battle with WordPress provider WP Engine. In a counterclaim Automattic filed as part of WP Engine's ...

Automattic will only contribute 45 hours each week to ‘match’ the amount of time spent by third-party hosting platform WP Engine. Automattic will only contribute 45 hours each week to ‘match’ the ...

A judge has issued an injunction ordering WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic to restore access to the WP Engine web hosting service, according to legal documents seen by ...

WordPress and its CEO have been given a telling off by a California district judge after WP Engine, a third-party WordPress hosting service, said they were damaging its business. The judge ordered ...

In a recent interview, Matt Mullenweg referenced three long-forgotten scandals and controversies from his past to illustrate how the WP Engine scandal may also fade from memory. One example, the Hot ...

A hot potato: David Heinemeier Hansson was recognized as "Hacker of the Year" for developing the open-source web framework Ruby on Rails in 2004. The Danish software engineer has joined the clash ...