Boo-Hoo: Mullenweg calls foul while continuing to ignore WordPress Automattic Conflict of Interest

WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has called foul today while dodging issues on the ongoing conflict of interest between his involvement at Automattic and WordPress. Several sites, including this one, published stories today suggesting that WordPress.com ... continue

Automattic, Those Champions of Open Source Plug The Microsoft Cloud

Automattic, the company behind WordPress and self-proclaimed nazis when it comes to enforcing the strictest interpretation of open source on others, have announced that they're moving WordPress.com to are plugging Microsoft's Azure cloud hosting. At the Microsoft (MSFT) ... continue

The Epic Wordpress + MediaTemple Failure

A week ago I, Kyle the Invincible!, was hit by an injection attack on the majority of my own sites, and it took a large handful of hours to even figure out what was wrong.  Once I ... continue

A Very Wordpress World

Since 2003, an open source, Internet-oriented software package has done what is exceedingly rare within that community:  becoming not only immensely popular and wildly loved, but also profitable.  Matt Mullenweg has managed to turn what began as ... continue

Fail: Automattic CEO takes on WPMU

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has once again highlighted the gross conflict of interest between his commercial interests and involvement in WordPress.org by wishing that WordPress development team WPMU would go out of business. WPMU, run by Edublogs founder ... continue

Sociable Acquired By Startups.com

Excellent Wordpress social voting plugin Sociable has been acquired by Startups.com for an undisclosed sum from developer Joast de Valk. According to a report at The Next Web, de Valk will remain on board for the mean time ... continue

Automattic Acquires After The Deadline. Bloggers Suddenly Learn How To Spell

After The Deadline is a popular spell check plug-in that allows users to incorporate spell checking into their online applications. Now that technology is in the hands of the Automattic team who have just acquired the company ... continue

WordPress-tards wet their pants over not much at all

Hardcore WordPress groupies (hereby known as WordPress-tards) are in a flap over comments made by Chris Anderson in his new book "Free" about the WordPress model. Without being able to see the actual book and extract, I can ... continue

WordPress 2.8 released, but you shouldn’t install it yet

The latest version of popular blogging CMS WordPress has been released. WordPress 2.8 offers a range of enhancements and bug fixes, although is not as big an upgrade as WordPress 2.7 was (which some would argue should have ... continue

WordTwit offers custom short URLs for WordPress blogs

Twitter updating plugin for WordPress WordTwithas recently released a new version with a range of extra features including a short URL service. The short URL service allows users to use their own URL when updating Twitter, for example ... continue

WordPress 2.7 breaks category feeds (and apologies if you got the wrong content)

The Inquisitr is now running WordPress 2.7, the "Coltrane" release that offers new security and a wacky new layout that takes a lot of getting use to (I hate it so far, but I'm going to give ... continue

More Hypocrisy from Mullenweg and WordPress with new themes jihad

WordPress has removed over 200 themes from the WordPress theme directory for the crime of the themes linking back to the sites and people that created them. The jihad against themes started last year with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg ... continue