From cracks in the attack on WP Engine to a roundtable
Hats off Hats off to Matt. Despite all the heat in the community at the moment, yesterday he turned up on ThePrimeTime for an interview with ThePrimeagen to talk about the controversy. What’s more, he did that when – clearly – he was pretty exhausted. Seven things To my mind, some of the things he said are quite telling or otherwise warrant comment. I want to focus on seven of them. 1. Confusion over ‘WP’ When asked about the recent change in the WordPress Trademark Policy (see WordPress Foundation changes Trademark Policy to criticise WP Engine) and why there had been a change to the previous statement about ‘WP’ not being protected by the trademarks and people being able to use ‘WP’ however they want, he said: “It still says that. So you can still use WP. You can, like I said, WP beginner, there’s lots of WP plugins. There’s lots of WP things. Just how they [WP Engine] were doing it is an egregious violation of trademarks. And as a trademark holder, you know, …