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This week marks two interesting anniversaries for me. I've been writing here at ZDNet for six years, and I've been supporting adopted open source projects for one year. While my experience here at ...
At GoDaddy, we’re all about supporting the dreamers, the doers, and the builders who make the internet an exciting, inclusive place. Whether it’s entrepreneurs launching their first business or open ...
WordPress.com, the fully hosted version of WordPress, has a received one of its biggest updates ever today. Codenamed Calypso, Automattic rewrote WordPress.com from scratch — everything is new under ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Can relying on open source technology as the backbone for an entire company really be feasible? WordPress.com's founder Matt Mullenweg certainly seems to think so. "I believe morally ...
WordPress, the world's largest open source content management system (CMS), has just become even more open sourcier. Chalk it up to some changes from Automattic, the web development corporation most ...
In late September, Automattic CEO and WordPress cofounder Matt Mullenweg started a public dispute with the hosting provider WP Engine, calling the company “a cancer to WordPress.” He accused WP Engine ...
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference ...