Matt Mullenweg posted on WordPress.org that WP Engine customers have been granted a reprieve from the block on the WordPress plugin and theme repository till October 1st, permitting them to entry updates as traditional.
WordPress Versus WP Engine
Matt Mullenweg and well-liked internet host WP Engine have been locked in a battle for the previous week over a business licensing charge that different internet hosts pay however WP Engine doesn’t. The problem between them stems from the frustrations on Mullenweg’s aspect with the notion that WP Engine will not be giving again sufficient to WordPress in the best way that they need to. Outstanding figures within the WordPress trade like Joost de Valk agree with Mullenweg that corporations, together with WP Engine, ought to give again extra to WordPress.
WP Engine has supplied their aspect of the story have gone so far as to ship a proper stop and desist letter for what they understand as an unfair assault on their enterprise.
No matter who is correct or fallacious, WordPress customers on WP Engine are caught in the course of this battle, with their companies disrupted by Mullenweg’s resolution to dam WP Engine from accessing the WordPress.org plugin and theme repository, stopping them from updating plugins and themes.
Short-term Reprieve
Mullenweg posted on WordPress.org that he has heard from WordPress customers and has determined to present the WordPress customers an opportunity for WP Engine to arrange an answer in order that they received’t be inconvenienced. WP Engine has till October 1st to engineer a workaround.
He wrote:
“I’ve heard from WP Engine prospects that they’re pissed off that WP Engine hasn’t been capable of make updates, plugin listing, theme listing, and Openverse work on their websites. It saddens me that they’ve been negatively impacted by Silver Lake‘s business choices.
WP Engine was effectively conscious that we may take away entry once they selected to disregard our efforts to resolve our variations and enter right into a business licensing settlement. Heather Brunner, Lee Wittlinger, and their Board selected to take this danger.
…Now we have lifted the blocks of their servers from accessing ours, till October 1, UTC 00:00. Hopefully this helps them spin up their mirrors of all of WordPress.org’s sources that they had been utilizing totally free whereas not paying, and making authorized threats towards us.”
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