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Mullenweg claims WP Engine broke WordPress undo feature to save money
“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…”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 41:57 Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
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Mullenweg: WordPress powers over 40% of websites, ten times second-place Shopify
“Now WordPress has grown to be, yeah, over 40% of all websites in the world, which is 10 x to number two, which right now is Shopify.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 10:03 Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
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Mullenweg: WordPress community forced Meta to reverse restrictive React licensing
“I think it was React that they were doing something with the licensing or like a patent restriction on. And the WordPress community actually got Meta to change that and reverse something they were doing to lock it down.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 25:38 Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
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Mullenweg: WP Engine hosts approximately 700,000 WordPress installations
“It has about 700,000 WordPress installs. There's a company called WP Engine.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 40:05 Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
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Mullenweg notes WordPress started as a fork of abandoned project b2
“WordPress was actually a fork of abandoned open source project called B two.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 21:12 Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
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