The brouhaha in the WordPress community looks likely to escalate into a legal battle around trademarks. Just a day after WordPress hosting service WP Engine sent a cease-and-desist notice to Automattic asking its CEO to stop publicly trashing WP Engine, now Automattic has sent its own cease-and-desist letter to WP Engine, saying the latter has […]
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.” Mullenweg criticized the company — which has been commercializing the open source WordPress project since 2010 — for profiteering without giving much back, while also disabling key features that make WordPress […]
Automattic launches AI writing tool that aims to make WordPress blogs more readable and succinct
Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, has launched a new AI tool designed to help bloggers write more clearly and succinctly. The tool joins a swathe of writing assistants launched over recent years by the likes of privacy app maker Proton as well as the mighty Google. Write Brief with AI, as Automattic’s new tool is […]
Armenia’s 10web brings AI website-building to WordPress
Generative AI has done an impressive job in improving productivity in a wide range of areas, including website building. There’s no lack of tools that now allow one to generate web designs by simply describing what they want in prompts, including established player Wix and bootstrapped startups like Relume. 10web, a company based out of […]