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kmeisthax 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: WordPress Is in Trouble

> Then yesterday happened. Automattic announced that it would restrict its contributions to the open source version of WordPress. The company would now only put in about 45 hours a week total — down from nearly 4,000 a week — so as to match the estimated hourly contributions of WP Engine. This action is blamed on the “the legal attacks started by WP Engine and funded by Silver Lake”, which I think is a gross mischaracterization. WP Engine definitely did not start this.

WP Engine owns several WordPress plugin developers. Does plugin development not count now?

burnte 3 months ago [–]

> WP Engine owns several WordPress plugin developers. Does plugin development not count now?

Mullenweg stole the Custom fields plugin from WPEngine. So no, plugin development doesn't could when he can steal the plugin away from you.

pacifika 3 months ago | [–]

You can install all plugins via GitHub if you want.

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