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Mullenweg claims WP Engine broke WordPress undo feature to save money

Matt Mullenweg · Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand · Mar 2, 2025 · at 41:57

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg criticizes WP Engine's technical modifications to WordPress core functionality.

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“So to save money, they were actually turning off features like revisions. So a cool part about WordPress that actually one of my favorite features is every change to every single post or page is saved forever, just like Wikipedia. So if you make a mistake, you can always undo it. And of course, as you know, like building a great product, that sort of user safety of an undo is so critical. Now obviously you have to store these revisions. So it takes a more database space. Now it's trivial. It's megabytes. So on modern databases, it's not that big a deal, but the same money, they actually turned this off. So they broke the undo feature in WordPress to essentially save money.”

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