I’ve recently volunteered to help with a website for a local organization that I participate in. The website (which is quite good and serves the organization well) is created in WordPress and hosted on WP Engine.
It’s been a long time since I’ve worked with WordPress. My old website was on WordPress for while, but I discontinued that in about 2011. I’ve been doing some background reading on it and associated technology (e.g., PHP) and it still seems to be fit for purpose and widely used.
Before getting involved with the site, I’d heard a few things here and there about some drama between WP Engine and the founder of WordPress. As I dug in a bit, I learned more about the situation which is nicely recapped in TechCrunch. That’s quite messy but seems to be par for the course when big money and big egos get involved with open source projects.