WordPress

  • Fixing Links with the Wayback Machine

    Automattic is excited to collaborate with the Internet Archive to launch the Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer, a new free WordPress plugin that keeps your links alive.

  • Celebrating 20 Years of Automattic

    What began with the bold idea that publishing should be free and open has evolved into a fully distributed software company that powers tens of millions of sites, stores, and conversations worldwide.

  • Returning to Core

    After pausing our contributions to regroup, rethink, and plan strategically, we’re ready to press play again and return fully to the WordPress project. Expect to find our contributions across all of the greatest hits—WordPress Core, Gutenberg, Playground, Openverse, and WordPress.org. This return is a moment of excitement for us as it’s about continuing the mission…

  • Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress

    Automattic has always been deeply committed to the success of WordPress, dedicating significant resources and talent to its development for almost two decades. However, we’ve observed an imbalance in how contributions to WordPress are distributed across the ecosystem, and it’s time to address this. Additionally, we’re having to spend significant time and money to defend…

  • Automattic Welcomes WPAI

    At Automattic, we’re committed to making WordPress smarter, faster, and easier for everyone. Today, we’re announcing the acquisition of a company that’s going to help us in that mission: WPAI. WPAI is an AI startup, focused on building AI solutions for WordPress. The brilliant founding team behind it—James LePage, Greg Hunt, and Ovidiu “Ovi” Iulian…

  • Defending Open Source: Our Legal Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Complaint

    Automattic, and our CEO Matt Mullenweg, are devoted to the ethos of open source, democratizing publishing through the WordPress platform and protecting the thriving, collaborative ecosystem built around software that powers over 40% of the web.  Matt and Automattic have granted away significant rights and provided extensive free services—something most individuals and companies would never…

  • Response to WP Engine’s Meritless Lawsuit

    Last night, WP Engine filed a baseless lawsuit against Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, and WordPress.org. Their complaint is flawed, start to finish. We vehemently deny WP Engine’s allegations—which are gross mischaracterizations of reality—and reserve all of our rights. Automattic is confident in our legal position, and will vigorously litigate against this absurd filing, as well as…

  • Automattic—WP Engine Term Sheet

    One of the many lies in Silver Lake and WP Engine’s C&D was their claim that Automattic demanded money from them moments before our CEO Matt Mullenweg gave his keynote at WordCamp US. That is not true. Automattic asked for a verbal agreement that WP Engine would give some percentage of their revenue back into…

  • Open Source, Trademarks, and WP Engine

    For those just catching up: WP Engine needs a trademark license. Since being taken over by private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018, WP Engine has built a half-a-billion a year business by confusing consumers with their commercial use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. Automattic has tried for years to get WP Engine to obtain a commercial license…

  • Shipping Tumblr and WordPress

    Since Automattic acquired Tumblr we’ve made it more efficient, grown its revenue, and worked to improve the platform. But there’s one part of the plan that we haven’t yet started, which is to run Tumblr on WordPress. I’m pleased to say we’re kicking off that project now! We’re not talking about changing Tumblr. We’re not…