WordPress the nuclear button

CEO’s aggressive behaviour is shaking confidence in the web publishing giant

Picking a fight with one of the leading WordPress-hosting companies by describing it as “a cancer”; twice telling staff who disagreed with him to pack their bags and take a pay-off; threatening to effectively down tools on the development of WordPress itself. It’s been a tumultuous few months for the co-founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, and it doesn’t seem to be getting any calmer. Mullenweg’s dictatorial behaviour as the figurehead of WordPress is shaking confidence in his company, Automattic, and the future of the web publishing platform itself. Website owners are considering switching platforms, disgruntled staff are demanding a change of leadership, and there are rumours of a fork of WordPress, potentially creating a damaging split in the platform’s user base. What on earth is happening to WordPress? Mullenweg’s mission…

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