According to a cryptic post by Matt Mullenweg, WordPress services will be suspended until “sometime in the new year.”
Matt Mullenweg announced the sudden suspension of WordPress.org’s services, which would impact plugin submissions, reviews, theme submissions, and photo directory updates. Citing the recent court ruling against him and Automattic that requires him to provide “free labor and services,” he offers to continue supplying these services to WP Engine.
In order to give the “many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays,” Mullenweg announced on the main WordPress blog that the free services given by the website would be suspended.
The pause affects:
- New photo directory submissions
- New account registrations on WordPress.org
- New plugin directory submissions
- New plugin reviews
- New theme directory submissions
According to Mullenweg, installing new WordPress sites or accounts is unaffected by a stoppage.
In his list of halted services, he wrote the following:
“New account registrations on WordPress.org (clarifying so press doesn’t confuse this: people can still make their own WordPress installs and accounts)”
Attempts by new users to create an account on WordPress.org are banned.
Mullenweg points out that WP Engine is unaffected by the pause, claiming that he is legally obligated to continue offering WP Engine free labor and services. He writes that if WP Engine needs those services, they can have their “high-priced attorneys” speak to his “high-priced attorneys” to obtain access.
He then posted a mysterious message that suggested there was a possibility WordPress might not resume those services in 2025. He stated that it depended on his finding the “time, energy, and money” to reverse the 2025 pause, which he claims is being used to defend against Automattic and WP Engine’s lawsuit against him.
Mullenweg wrote:
“Right now much of the time I would spend making WordPress better is being taken up defending against WP Engine’s legal attacks. Their attacks are against Automattic, but also me individually as the owner of WordPress.org, which means if they win I can be personally liable for millions of dollars of damages.”
By linking to both WP Engine and a WordPress.org page that offers promotions to persuade WP Engine clients to move, he concludes by urging anyone who would like to finance those attacks on him to join up for WP Engine and those who don’t to sign up for other web hosts.
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