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Hans-Gerd GerhardsA very interesting post by Taco Verdonschot that doesn't sound hopeful about the future of WordPress and the WordPress community. It's very sad. 😞 <a href="https://progressplanner.com/real-impact-of-being-banned-from-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://progressplanner.com/real-impact-of-being-banned-from-wordpress/</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordpress</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a>

Hans-Gerd GerhardsWordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordpress</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a>

Théorie :verified:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@FrancoisMaumont" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@FrancoisMaumont</a> tu peux regarder <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/wpDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpDrama</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mullenweg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mullenweg</a> ou <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/mattMullenweg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mattMullenweg</a> pour voir un peu le personnage.

Javier Casares<a href="https://wpmastodon.es/tags/WPdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPdrama</a> Some information about the WPE vs. A8c thing. This Thursday, there is a settlement scheduled at 12pm (EST).

Hans-Gerd Gerhards<a href="https://toot.re/@lucp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lucp</a> absolutely, it's interesting that they point it out despite the <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a>. But I think I would have read that in other posts before. Curious

Alexander S. Kunz<a href="https://mastodon.online/@shojiwax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@shojiwax</a> A lot of things were coming together. There was Mullenweg and the whole <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a> of course; I wanted to be less entangled with Automattic but that alone wasn't enough.I was also a paying subscriber, and they're going to raise my price by 66% (still not a bad deal, but ouch).And one of the Jetpack modules (the only one I really cared about and paid for, VideoPress) had a very negative impact on the backend performance of my site.These three combined were enough to get rid of it...

Brent ToderashNot looking to pick a fight here, but is it just me or does Human Made's Enterprise <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> analysis feel just a little tone-deaf to <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a> in the ecosystem? It's beautifully designed & has some excellent trend analysis, but the room contains an unaddressed elephant. <a href="https://wpbiz.dev/news/human-made-publishes-wordpress-in-2025-report/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wpbiz.dev/news/human-made-publishes-wordpress-in-2025-report/</a>

Deborah Edwards-OñoroAnd the WordPress drama continues with Mullenweg's latest tantrum. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg bars Joost De Valk from speaking at WordCamp Asia. <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-leader-mullenweg-silences-joost-de-valk/539387/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-leader-mullenweg-silences-joost-de-valk/539387/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a>

Hans-Gerd GerhardsJoost de Valk Removed From WCAsia 2025 Speaker Lineup. Joost de Valk was announced as a speaker where he was to speak on the topic, “Launching or Finding a WordPress Product in 2025”. Mullenweg also stated, “ I will not interact with him any further or participate with anything he’s involved with, he’s persona non grata.” <a href="https://wp-content.co/newsletter/archive/206/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wp-content.co/newsletter/archive/206/</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordpress</a>

Seth GoldsteinMatt Mullenweg Has Lost His Way And Is Taking It Out On The Community. The Latest…Roger Montti over at Search Engine Journal reported that <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-leader-mullenweg-silences-joost-de-valk/539387" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the latest in the WordPress Drama had dropped.</a> Matt Mullenweg, the “leader” of the WordPress project has barred longtime supporter of the project Joost De Valk from speaking at WordCamp Asia, because Matt feels Joost stabbed him in the back.<blockquote>Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, posted a statement on X (formerly Twitter) announcing that Joost de Valk was no longer speaking at WordCamp Asia and was persona non grata for having “stabbed” him when he was vulnerable and betraying his confidence. Mullenweg cited statements by de Valk to prove his point, but those statements were presented without their full context, which significantly altered their meaning.</blockquote>Matt is seriously unhinged. And what’s scary is that WordPress is suffering because of this insanity. WordPress powers ~40% of the Websites on the Web. There is a lot at stake here if Matt goes nuclear.He brought this on himself. And now Matt is paying the price for his actions. But sadly he’s taking the whole fucking community down with him.There are efforts to make sure this doesn’t happen, or hopefully doesn’t. But it has a lot of us on edge, me included.Seriously, this is one more thing that many of us don’t need right now.<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/joost-de-valk/" target="_blank">#JoostDeValk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/matt-mullenweg/" target="_blank">#MattMullenweg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordcamp/" target="_blank">#wordcamp</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordcamp-asia/" target="_blank">#WordCampAsia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordpress/" target="_blank">#wordpress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wp-drama/" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a>

Hans-Gerd GerhardsDer Rechtsstreit um die Kontrolle von WordPress geht weiter. Diesmal sind die Hosting-Unternehmen betroffen. <a href="https://www.wppodcast.de/podcast/kein-wordpress-hosting/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wppodcast.de/podcast/kein-wordpress-hosting/</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordpress</a> <a href="https://wp-social.net/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a>

Roy TanckLooks like the next hearing in the WP Engine vs Automattic case is on June 5th? Which is also the first day of WordCamp Europe?<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WCEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WCEU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wceu2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wceu2025</a>

PlusBrothersPodcast adventureStats are clear: our fantasy stories have very few readers so we are going to transform them into podcast to let more people enjoy them.Positive World won’t end here, but we’re building an audio-drama called <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-url mention" href="https://podcast.plusbrothers.net/@famigliatradizionale" target="_blank">@famigliatradizionale</a> – “traditional family”, in English -, where we bring our characters to life with the same purpose: demolishing HIV stigma and prejudices, with satire. Too bad we just have Italian language audio for now, but being amateur and independent bloggers we can’t do all what we want.Our site won’t die, we are considering a platform change if <a href="https://www.wpdrama.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a> becomes more serious, but we want to grow in different way as audio and sound effects are becoming more exciting for us.Our podcast, unfortunately in Italian only is based on <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-url mention" href="https://podlibre.social/@Castopod" target="_blank">@Castopod</a> platform, installed on our same server where we host this blog so we’re completely independent from external platform with their own rules.We would like to provide English audio too, but at the moment it’s not affordable for us.However, a special thanks is addressed to Gianluca <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.uno/@futuroprossimo" target="_blank">@futuroprossimo</a> as he strongly inspired us without even knowing it.

Peter Müller/2 Meanwhile Mullenweg seems to begin to paddle back a little:»Mullenweg said recent changes that WP Engine has made has altered his demands. He is no longer asking for money, for example.«But even if WPE drops the lawsuit, something is broken. I feel a vague lack of confidence in the future of »WordPress as we knew it«. This is largely due to MM's erratic behavior towards the WP community. It's like he dropped his mask, and now I can't un-see what I saw.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gutenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gutenberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a>

Peter MüllerThe 200th Gutenberg release just came out, and I was looking forward to the new FSE stuff presented by Matias Ventura in Tokyo.But now AutoMATTic announced a 99% cutback in development hours:»How does this affect the timeline? For new stuff, it might slow it down, it might not. It depends on who shows up and commits code. In terms of new functionality, the scope will be smaller.«WP dot org is increasingly unpredictable…<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3801043/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-developer-hours-cutback-may-or-may-not-slow-innovation.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.computerworld.com/article/3801043/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-developer-hours-cutback-may-or-may-not-slow-innovation.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gutenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gutenberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a>

Sébastien Serre :wordpress:J’ai bifurqué – imathi.eu <a href="https://imathi.eu/j-ai-bifurque/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://imathi.eu/j-ai-bifurque/</a> <a href="https://wptoots.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a href="https://wptoots.social/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a>

Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)Proposal - switch from calling it <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a> to calling it the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MullenwegMeltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MullenwegMeltdown</a> or the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MattMullenwegMeltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MattMullenwegMeltdown</a> aka <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MMM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MMM</a>

jbzLooks like Matt is using several sock puppet accounts which isn't a surprise.He's also attempting to recreate a "Libs of Tiktok" but instead aimed at his critics, quite the villain arc indeed.Check it: <a href="https://x.com/gemsofwp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/gemsofwp</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/mullenweg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mullenweg</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordpress</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/wpdrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wpdrama</a>

Michele NeylonOne of the reasons a longtime user is dropping WP for Ghost is of course <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a> -not the only reason, but it's on his list <a href="https://www.nevillehobson.com/2025/01/16/from-wordpress-to-ghost-embracing-simplicity-in-blogging/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nevillehobson.com/2025/01/16/from-wordpress-to-ghost-embracing-simplicity-in-blogging/</a>

Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)<a href="https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@harrymccracken</a> Just when you think the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WPDrama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WPDrama</a> is over...

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