Mullenweg Pauses WordPress Services – Hopes To Reopen Next Year via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Matt Mullenweg announced the abrupt intermission successful services offered by WordPress.org, affecting plugin submissions, reviews, taxable submissions, and additions to the photograph directory. He offers to support providing these services to WP Engine, citing the caller tribunal bid against him and Automattic that compels him to connection “free labour and services.”

Pause For The Holidays

Mullenweg published a station connected the authoritative WordPress blog to denote a intermission successful escaped services offered by WordPress.org to springiness the “many bushed volunteers astir WordPress.org a interruption for the holidays.”

The intermission affects:

• New relationship registrations connected WordPress.org
• New plugin directory submissions
• New plugin reviews
• New taxable directory submissions
• New photograph directory submissions

The intermission doesn’t impact the quality to instal caller instances of WordPress sites oregon accounts, which sounds contradictory.

Here’s what helium wrote successful his database of what services are paused:

“New relationship registrations connected WordPress.org (clarifying truthful property doesn’t confuse this: radical tin inactive marque their ain WordPress installs and accounts)”

Mullenweg makes a constituent to enactment that the intermission doesn’t impact WP Engine, stating that he’s legally required to support providing escaped labour and services” services to WP Engine, penning that if WP Engine requires those services they tin person their “high-priced attorneys” talk to his “high-priced attorneys” to summation access.

He past shared a cryptic connection that implied determination was a accidental that WordPress whitethorn not resume those services successful 2025, saying that it hinged connected his being capable to find the “time, energy, and money” to undo the intermission successful 2025, which helium writes is being expended defending against WP Engine’s suit against him and Automattic.

Mullenweg wrote:

“Right present overmuch of the clip I would walk making WordPress amended is being taken up defending against WP Engine’s ineligible attacks. Their attacks are against Automattic, but besides maine individually arsenic the proprietor of WordPress.org, which means if they triumph I tin beryllium personally liable for millions of dollars of damages.”

He signs disconnected inviting those who’d similar to money those attacks connected him to motion up for WP Engine and that those who don’t tin motion up for different web hosts, linking to some WP Engine and a WordPress.org leafage that offers promotions to induce WP Engine clients to power away.

Read Mullenweg’s announcement here:

Holiday Break

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