WP Engine wins an injunction against Matt Mullenweg and Automattic. This means they are forced to bring things back to the status quo, remove that stupid checkbox, and the hijacked ACF plugin.

Perhaps, it's time for Matt Mullenweg to resign... and give WordPress back to the community and make it a community led project instead of something that he can use for his benefit only.

This is good news for the WordPress community.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/10/24318350/automattic-restore-wp-engine-access-wordpress

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This is in addition to the 50% markdown that BlackRock did earlier. I guess Matt is in the FAFO phase of his pointless war on WP Engine.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/blackrock-marks-down-its-investment-in-automattic-by-10/

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Big L for Matt Mullenweg, the judge plans to put an injunction against Automattic/Matt Mullenweg, thus they have to restore everything back to the status quo before Matt waged war against WP Engine. Not too surprising since WordPress itself is tied to WordPress.org resources.

https://www.therepository.email/judge-signals-support-for-wp-engine-injunction

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I just don’t see how this will help their case against WP Engine as they basically stole the plugin and make it their own,

https://www.therepository.email/wordpress-org-forks-acf-pro-in-unprecedented-move-against-wp-engine

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I have been a bit busy and I haven’t covered any WordPress drama stuff lately. Apparently the reason Automattic’s motion for dismissal got rejected is that WP Engine updated their complaint, with more stuff. It also mentions that tracker site that Matt put up.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.51.0.pdf

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As of tomorrow, my paid Akismet plan is done. I'm not renewing it because of Matt Mullenweg's disgusting behavior and of course his burning down the WordPress community in his stupid war with WP Engine.

I may reconsider if he resigns or he loses, but I think the focus should be to begin decoupling from Automattic plugins.

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Cloudflare blocks Automattics WP Engine tracking or Phishing.

This is funny, and it seems that this move backfired on Matt's face, although it's back online after a few hours.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/cloudflare-blocks-automattics-wp-engine-tracker-for-phishing/532244/

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Remember Automattic trying to give incentives to lure WP Engine customers into Pressable to pay off their contracts.

Now they plan to give incentives to agencies that use WP Engine to move over to Pressable, an Automattic company.

I wonder, where are they getting all this money to burn for this, given that BlackRock cut their valuation in half.

https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d#7-november-2024

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Automattic of course is trying to shoot inself in their foot by creating a website that tracks how many domains left WPE, whicn includes a downloadable CSV that contains local and staging sites, ripe for abuse from bad actors and possibly violating GDPR.

Yep, Matt is basically giving more ammunition for WP Engine to use against him.

Source; https://gist.github.com/adrienne/aea9dd7ca19c8985157d9c42f7fc225d#6-november-2024

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Apparently, right on time, WP Engine reponds to Automattic’s contradictions (of course) that Matt/Automattic is not harming WP Engine, despite admitting that they are by the actions they already did.

If you are not aware, Matt went on a crusade against WP Engine and they did the following:

• Shut off WordPress.org access (Plugins/Themes/updates) from WP Engine and disabled WP Engine’s ability to update plugins
• Try to steal customers away and entice them to move to Pressable, an Automattic service, which is a conflict of interest
• That checkbox
• Hijacking ACF to SCF.

I find it funny how WP Engine mentions that WordPress.com has a very low rating on Trustpilot at 1.8 out of 5. Part of it is because WordPress.com is basically a butchered “knockoff” of WordPress without the core features like the ability to use plugins and themes, without paying for a more expensive plan.

That said, Matt’s talking points are well, you know disproven given his actions and outright admitting to it.

I think this is a shut case against Automattic as they are obviously struggling financially. With BlackRock cutting Automattic’s valuation by 50%, Matt has no choice to try to extort WP Engine because WordPress.com is a crappy WordPress host (everyone should really host WordPress on their own host or pay for managed WordPress, and not use anything Automattic) while putting Jetpack features, that used to be free behind a very expensive paywall. Not only that, they are forcing people to pay for stats, even for a non-profit, which is another form of extortion/ransom.

It’s Matt case to lose. Hopefully Matt will get ousted as a result, or the community decides to hardfork WordPress. Matt has done a lot to destroy WordPress, but it still can be saved.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.44.0.pdf

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