Automattic will have to […] remove the checkbox that asks WordPress users to verify they’re not affiliated with WP Engine when logging in.
That is petty af.
The WordPress “spokesperson” is exactly as butthurt as you’d expect:
we continue to protect the open source ecosystem
lol.
Hope this ruins him (the insane CEO).
Can’t wait to see Matt’s next weird and unhinged reaction, considering how this has gone so far.
WP Engine has always seemed a very weird business to me. WP is free, and many hosting & domain providers just offer it for free with your hosting. If you don’t want to host yourself, why not just use WP.com and do a redirect? I’ve just never understood the value-add.
My employer uses WP Engine for a lot of varied content. I’m not directly involved with it, but it appears to be well designed for corporate use. We masquerade various WP sites behind different domains & paths on our site. For example, www.example.com/about/ is one WP environment, www.example.com/blog/ is another, and www.example.com/business/ is yet another. Only certain people in our organization can edit /about/ and /business/, but we hire external authors to provide content under /blog/ so they have access to that.
We also apparently have the ability to modify pages on a dev/test domain then migrate them to our production domain very easily. So changes can be tested & verified before going live.
All that being managed by WP Engine means we don’t have to worry about manually setting up WP, managing our users, making sure everything is properly backed up, etc.
Nice! Heather is an old friend and good people.
