After years of nasty back and forth accusations between WordPress hosting provider WP Engine (WPE) and WordPress.org, the open source project that provides the software, on Wednesday WPE sued ...

In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine ...

The legal battle kicked off when Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, called WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ at an event. A US judge granted a preliminary injunction yesterday (10 December) ...

The Northern District of California's San Francisco federal courthouse located at Phillip Burton Federal Building & United States Courthouse in San Francisco, Calif. (Natalie Hanson / Courthouse News) ...

WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference ...

A threat actor modified the source code of at least five plugins hosted on WordPress.org to include malicious PHP scripts that create new accounts with administrative privileges on websites running ...

WordPress announced a major clampdown to protect its theme and plugin ecosystem from password insecurity. These improvements follow a flurry of attacks in June that compromised multiple plugins at the ...