PPC Land6h ago
ICYMI: Cloudflare's EmDash CMS sparks fight with WordPress founder Mullenweg: Cloudflare launched EmDash on April 1 - a WordPress alternative with sandboxed plugins, x402 payments, and AI tools that drew criticism from Matt Mullenweg. https://ppc.land/cloudflares-emdash-cms-sparks-fight-with-wordpress-founder-mullenweg/ #Cloudflare #EmDash #WordPress #Mullenweg #AItools
Cloudflare's EmDash CMS sparks fight with WordPress founder Mullenweg

Cloudflare launched EmDash on April 1 - a WordPress alternative with sandboxed plugins, x402 payments, and AI tools that drew criticism from Matt Mullenweg.

PPC Land
N-gated Hacker News3d ago
Ah, yes, the classic tale of the tech guru who gets caught in a well-documented #phishing #scam 🙄. #Mullenweg, the self-proclaimed protector of digital security, foiled by a reset button—truly the hero we never asked for and definitely don't need. Maybe next time, he can teach us how to smell a rat without having to fall into the rat trap first 🐭🔒.
https://ma.tt/2026/03/gone-almost-phishin/ #techguru #digitalsecurity #cybersecurity #fail #HackerNews #ngated
Gone (Almost) Phishin’

This is a little embarrassing to share, but I’d rather someone else be able to spot a dangerous scam before they fall for it. So, here goes. One evening last month, my Apple Watch, iPhone, an…

Matt Mullenweg
jbzDec 18

😅 WordPress wants to push AI to almost half of the Internet, good luck with that.

｢ The AI push is coming straight from Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg. He’s very into the magical CEO-level promises of vibe coding, with his new tool Telex, which is supposed to compete with instant vibe-website builders like Lovable ｣

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/

#wordpress #mullenweg #ai #aislop

WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world

What if we put AI slop into half the websites on the internet? WordPress is software to set up a website. It’s open source, it’s pretty easy to use, so it took over just by being more OK than every…

Pivot to AI
jbzNov 6

 Matt certainly knows how to make a comeback

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'
https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-mullenweg-kevin-geary/

#mullenweg #wordpress #automattic

Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'

Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS to rebrand.

404 Media
Ecologia DigitalJul 2, 2025

"The announcement also raises questions about what this means for #Tumblr’s integration with the #opensocialweb, known as the fediverse. By migrating its infrastructure to #WordPress, it would have become a #federatedapp. #Mullenweg admits that was one of the arguments for making the move, but hints that it’s no longer a priority.
“…in the meantime, I think if there was a big push to implement fediverse, we would just do it on the Tumblr code base,” he said."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/automattic-puts-tumblr-migration-to-wordpress-on-hold/

Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold | TechCrunch

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to WordPress, as previously announced.

TechCrunch
Show threadPoujol 𝖱𝗈𝗌𝗍 ✅Jun 7, 2025

@HTeuMeuLeu

#fair_project #fairpm #fairt_pm #wordpress #decentralization #mullenweg #auttomatic #blog #blog_engine #blog_hosting

roddie digital May 23, 2025

Matt Mullenweg Settles Caregiver Lawsuits Days Before Trial

> In the same post, Mullenweg also advised other wealthy founders in similar situations to “Never settle. It just creates an incentive for more people to make stuff up. Even if it’s messy, fight the claims in court as I am doing.” The post has since been taken down.

https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-settles-caregiver-lawsuits-days-before-trial

#WordPress #Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg Settles Caregiver Lawsuits Days Before Trial

Claims of wage theft, discrimination, retaliation, and defamation brought by two former caregivers against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg have quietly settled after a nearly three-year legal battle.

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Marcel WaldvogelApr 17, 2025

The company behind #Wordpress, #Automattic, is getting increasingly aligned.

The employee base now consist of "Mullenweg’s strongest supporters, and people who couldn’t afford to risk leaving their jobs", neither of which will contradict #Mullenweg.

Apparently recently, Automattic has been adding watermarking to the background in internal communications systems. The result will be that those afraid of leaving will be even more compliant. What a work culture.
https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/

Following Layoffs, Automattic Employees Discover Leak-Catching Watermarks

The watermarks, which could identify people leaking screenshots to the press, are in the background of internal communications platform P2.

404 Media
jbzApr 10, 2025

Mullenweg fires people to make room for AI slop, not surprising at all.

https://www.theverge.com/news/645993/wordpress-com-is-offering-a-new-ai-site-builder

#wordpress #ai #mullenweg

WordPress.com will now build you a full website with AI

Atomattic’s WordPress.com now has an AI website builder to help make WordPress sites fast.

The Verge
jbzMar 24, 2025

🙄 Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027

｢ A WordPress Slack chat shows that Matt Mullenweg is considering limiting future WordPress releases to just one per year from now through 2027 and insists that the only way to get Automattic to contribute more is to pressure WP Engine to drop their lawsuit. One WordPress developer who read that message characterized it as blackmail ｣

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mullenweg-considers-delaying-wordpress-releases-through-2027/541821/

#mullenweg #wordpress #opensource

Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027

Leaked Slack chat shows Matt Mullenweg considering delaying WordPress releases until late 2027, citing reduced corporate contributions

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