Category Archives: Automattic

WordPress Drama Unfolding Live – Matt calls out Lee Wittlinger, the Managing Director of Silver Lake for a public debate

07.10.2024Automattic, Five for the Future, Matt Mullenweg, WordCamp US 2024, WordPress community, WordPress News, WP EngineTeam WPLift

WordPress Drama What we know so far about Matt Mullenweg’s issues with WP Engine, the WordPress hosting provider’s response, and our personal take on the whole messy situation. On Friday evening, September 20, WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg took to the stage for a hotly anticipated Q&A session at WordCamp US, the biggest WordPress community [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Investments in the WordPress Space

16.09.2022Automattic, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. Automattic made a significant investment in the self-managed WordPress hosting platform Gridpane. According to its founder and CEO Patrick Gallagher, the additional capital will go towards innovation and marketing initiatives. Meanwhile, Atarim closed its first funding round with funding from [...]

Weekly WordPress News: A New WordPress.org Homepage

19.08.2022Automattic, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. The WordPress.org homepage and download page got a fresh new look this week. It features the usual jazzy design WordPress is known for. Beyond that, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s “This is not a good use of time” comment on this [...]

Weekly WordPress News: ServerPress Is Closing Its Doors

12.08.2022Automattic, Gutenberg, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, ServerPress, the creator of DesktopServer, is closing its doors. The company shared a farewell message on its website. We’re grateful for all the contributions of ServerPress to the WordPress community. Beyond that, the Twenty Twenty-Three default theme is [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress.com Reverts To Previous Pricing Model

22.07.2022Automattic, WordPress News, WordPress.comTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. We recently let you know that WPLift is looking for a new owner to take the helm. Earlier this week, WPLift was sold in auction on the Flippa marketplace. We’ll share more details in the coming weeks, but rest assured [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Elementor Acquires Strattic

10.06.2022Automattic, WordPress 6.0, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. The WordPress acquisition train continues. This week, Elementor announced the acquisition of Strattic, a static and headless WordPress company. Beyond that, InstaWP received seed funding from Automattic. The founder Vikas Singhal shared more about it in this blog post. We [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress.com Introduces Major Pricing Changes

08.04.2022Automattic, WordPress 5.9, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress.com introduced WordPress Pro, a single $15/month plan to replace all of its paid plans. The new pricing structure initially reduced the storage and imposed a traffic ceiling on the free plan. Automattic eventually increased the storage and [...]

Reasons To Use the Jetpack for WordPress Plugin & Alternatives to Useful Jetpack Modules

24.02.2022Automattic, Blog, jetpackSimon Wright

WordPress is a fantastic platform. Thanks to an abundance of themes and plugins, it offers virtually limitless options for creating websites of any kind and at any scale. The downside of that is you often end up bloating your site with numerous plugins. This is where Jetpack for WordPress steps in. What Does Jetpack for [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Automattic Acquires WPScan

05.11.2021Automattic, jetpack, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. The series of acquisitions in the WordPress space continues. This week, Automattic announced its acquisition of WordPress vulnerability database WPScan. The plugin may be integrated into Jetpack in the future. Beyond that, the Gutenberg landing page on WordPress.org is getting [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 Ready For Testing

18.06.20212021, Automattic, WordPress 5.8Team WPLift

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, the WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 is out and ready for testing. Over 25 bugs have been fixed since the first beta release of this update. Beyond that, Automattic acquired a popular journaling app. We also have some amazing [...]