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WP Engine files an injuction to get its WordPress.org access back

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Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in North California, asking it to intervene and restore its access to the WordPress.org open-source repository. After WP Engine filed a lawsuit against WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and Automattic last month, Mulleweng — who also owns WordPress.org — blocked the company’s access to […]

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Automattic offered employees another chance to quit — this time with nine months’ severance

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Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a nine-month severance package to anybody who quit immediately. Employees had four hours to decide whether they wanted to take the deal. In

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159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg said on Thursday that 159 employees (roughly 8.4% of staff) accepted a severance package that the company had offered to those who disagreed with his direction of WordPress and his handling of the tussle with web hosting provider WP Engine. In a blog post, Mullenweg said the package offered $30,000 or

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WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources

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WordPress drama went up another notch today after WordPress.org, the free-open source web content hosting software, banned web hosting provider WP Engine from accessing their resources. In a post on WordPress.org, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg wrote that, pending their legal claims, WP Engine doesn’t have access to the platform’s resources, such as themes and plug-ins.

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