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I mean we have to defend WordPress here. Nothing in the world is free. It's clear that WordPressORG also have to make some money and make sure others don't miss use their software.

holy shit, this video is amazing. you're so good at explaining

The way I see it, it is a de facto Elastic license instead of GPL right now, but with selective enforcement.

It seems to me that you're picking the side of the community, which is the side we're all on. We didn't build our careers around Matt Mullenweg, we did it around WordPress. This hurts everyone who has built their skillset around WordPress, and that's not ok.

Looks like Matt may succeed in moving people away from WordPress. It's always interesting when organizations start to implode. Sad for all the innocent people get caught in the crossfire

Gotta set your audio gain better in obs.

He needs to get on antipsychotics for a few months before doing anything more imho

Sounds like it's time to switch to Payload CMS lol

Maybe $99/year for developers like Apple’s developer program? As that was too big of a bet I can’t see them stopping at big companies.

3rd party developers are the bread and butter of WordPress. WP Core in and of itself does relatively little outside of auth and basic blogging. It's not difficult to replace the core functionality at ALL, it's the 3rd party plugins that wouldn't immediately come along for the ride. Developers can change that if they find something else to rally around and guide their users to. With enough momentum WP could be on it's last breath in 5 years given how much of it's lunch offerings like Shopify started eating.

Wow. Unbelievable. Thought through, this is the end of open source…

Mullenweg is the absolute smartest but most dumb individual on the planet. Literally burning his bridges and own legacy

WPEngine has access to the entire WP backend to host on their own and run their own autoupdate infra. At their scale they should be contributing to the open source community and not just endlessly leeching expecting Wordpress to be okay with them confusing consumers with shady naming practices. The ethics of keeping the reviews of the custom fields app is questionable but I'm not sure on the terms plugin operaters agree to when publishing with the wordpress store. WPEngine is a leech is every sense of the word. They aren't just using the open source software (where there should be no expectations of giving back), they are repackaging with minor modifications and their whole business is reliant on Wordpress backend and reselling with confusing naming explicitly using "Wordpress" in a way that confuses the two. That practice hurts open source. WP Engine is not a friend of open source and I don't think godaddy or bluehost will be empathetic as they have negotiated for years with Wordpress to license the brand in a way that feeds back into the open source world. I think anyone who has a serious business hosting WordPress for clients that is using proprietary software for backend should hire professionals that can do proper risk analysis. WPEngine likely knew for months thhis was a risk and chose to not have a backup plan as it was too expensive. Can almost guarantee this was brought up their board as a risk at some point over the years, but..they went for maximizing profits and not planning their own infra or being a fair player.

This is completely abhorrent behavior and it's saddening that it could be setting a precedent in the open source community. I'm already working on getting off WordPress. I have a mostly simple site & I recently discovered FastHTML so I'm coding up a replacement and it's been amazing. I am actually adding some fun features with Python & Pillow (PIL) so I can generate certain images on the fly.

I would love a video on alternatives to WP, I have heard good things about Ghost CMS in the past but heard it was missing a lot. I was thinking of making my own custom theme for my personal blog but now with all the drama I am not sure and getting things to work in WP the way I want has always seemed like a fight, and you have to get caching plugins etc for WP to even feel usable so although I have helped people setup a ton of WP sites I feel like it is time for a change

I picked sides. This war only hurts agencies, developers, and end clients. And reading Matt's comments on other people's posts all around is just laughable. Petty and childish. It's all bizarre.

Chuckle..nice title. You promised. I'm waiting 😅

Crazy how ppl believe ACF was stolen. Matt just did what ACF has been doing for years. Making billion from open source without so much as helping or contributing back

I'm team matt

you tube fence sitters are so afraid to lose that sponsor's $$

I wrote a custom and simple cms when remaking my girlfriend's website just for fun.and because did not like WordPress and it turns out it was a great idea

Point 18 says NOTHING about completely taking over a plugin that has no issues whatsoever. They didn't resort to point 18 with plugins that had servery security leaks for a longer time did they? No only with ACF. They just took it over, took over the ratings and comments as well, slapped a new name on it and left the logos inside the plugin including links to the ACF website and called it quits.

I'm not sure why this happened after 21 years of relative peace and stability. In my mind WP was this solid open source solution that was always reliable. Now? Not at all. I don't think it matters much unless you're a business on top of WP, or a plugin developer that's wildly successful. An agency or a smaller theme developer, you have nothing to worry about.

Give or take, ACF has being stolen not forked. If it was forked how come its no longer a new plugin but a hostile takeover

It Is not about taking possession but about stealing

Sounds like we need a new group dedicated to open source and forking Wordpress.

Solid overview. I've certainly chosen a side in this fight.

I'm pretty sure I saw that text between Matt and Josepha on Twitter, so I believe you are correct. If we get a committee instead of a single point of failure, things will get better. I have zero confidence in MM. It's definitely a dark time for WP.

Yes, if you are a successful agency you might have to give them money if you advertise using it. As that was a trademark issue, it does not matter if you are hosting or an agency, all can be affected.

Very useful. Thanks!

I think this is well summed up. It's helpful to get your context. The code of conduct point is quite pertinent.

Great overview. I feel like Matt might also be forgetting about how much the 1.3M WP Engine customers give back to WordPress. Not a high percentage, I wouldn't think, but certainly that's thousands of people. Your point of "how much should my company have to pay in order to keep getting updates?" is chilling and accurate. I hadn't considered that angle before, but you're right. Any hosting company that has WP-specific options (or even not?) is likely thinking about that very thing. And now you have Automattic trying to lock down use of the term "WP", which should worry people like you a little, though it's unlikely that will have any kind of chance if it ever goes to court.

Looking more at Mullenweg's blog, it seems as if he feels that WP engine has destroyed his baby on different levels. 1 - that WP engine strips down WordPress and doesn't sell "WordPress" and 2nd that his own mother thought WP engine was the owner of WordPress (his blog mentions this outright). To me, Mullenweg is angry because they have "taken" his baby, and made it something it's not meant to be (in his vision). What do you think? I've also seen a few mentions calling for Mullenweg to step down. What're your thoughts on that as well?

Would love to see a video / series on troubleshooting WordPress remotely with SSH including a primer on what you need to know to SSH into a server. Why is the IP needed? Could the domain be used instead? What happens if you don't flush permissions? Why are the database name and the user name often the same? Where does PGP come in (if at all)? How can I troubleshoot Elementor and other page builders with SSH? How can I integrate Git into my WordPress workflow -- specifically on a NEWS blog, where data constantly changes on PROD while you are making edits on STAGING or DEV? I think those would be useful topics. Hope that helps!

Wow, Aaron - This clears up some barriers I've had to using SSH and WP-CLI! Thanks so much!!

plz plz help me....Recaptcha is not working when embed in a popup form and i am using gravity form in popup

Keep it up ❤

vpn it

Hi, Do you know how to allow Rankmath breadcrumb PHP on Cloudflare? I'm stuck with it.

I tried using the JS Challenge but it just blocked the country. I used VPN to test it. I can't seem to get Cloudflare to do anything but block. I'd like to see what the JS Challenge looks like. Do you have any advice on this?

What's wrong with Tor traffic :( I set up a node and I can't browse the web at all.

Mình đang dùng 7.4, cập nhật plugin bị lội nên mình chuyển sang 7.3 vẫn bị lỗi, giờ mình chuyển sang 7.4 thì website không load được. Có cách nào xử lý không bạn

I think php8 is supported now

Is this free ?

I am using the twenty-twenty-three wp theme and it doesn't have a function file. Can I get the code that creates was function file? For some reason, my admin credentials do not have the full feature of an administrator. I can't see the wp dashboard just the website

180 degrees of monitor! Helpful video too

Breakdance promises to be great, but it has one flaw... a strange pricing model. An interesting fact: I'm from Poland and for us the price is like 2-3 times higher ... other earnings in the Eastern Bloc countries. Imagine the situation that you are making a website and at some point you give up making websites ... life. Your client is left with a website for which he has to pay something like $349*3 = $1050 to update. Isn't that absurd? There is no price, e.g. as in elementor for 1 website, 3 websites etc., etc.

I've been following Aaron for many many years and he always has great WordPress answers for me when I'm not sure about something.

Great Information and video! I went with WP Mail and Sendinblue. I use Cloudflare for domain hosting and NS servers, so adding the required txt records was a breeze. It took about 20 minutes to configure everything for Wordpress SMTP and it works great. Thanks again.