WP Engine has updated its legal complaint against Automattic and Matt. They provided much more detail to explain the WordPress ecosystem and to show why they think Automattic and Matt were engaging in wrongful action and so harmed WP Engine. Roger Montti has summarize the type of new information provided.

My comments from reading the amended filing: It is very long and there are a number of redacted sections, which are information received in discovery. While we don’t know the exact details of the redacted sections, from context it appears that they relate to internal discussions within Automattic to monetize WordPress org if companies didn’t pay for trademark usage. That is my speculation based on the context.

This podcast episode looks at the history and challenges of creating Mastodon and the protocols for a decentralized web.

This is a cool use of AI. The WP World has added a multi-language chat where you can chat using your own language and it translates in real time.

Matt Mullenweg has shared the program for WCUS related to AI. They are going all in.

The Perplexity Comet web browser looks amazing. This video demos some of the uses. I imagine all browsers will soon be capable of this.

WP Ultimo has been abandoned for a number of years. Now a member of the WP Ultimo user community, David Stone, has forked WP Ultimo and provided a number of bug fixes and significant improvements. He plans to release it on WordPress . org as Multisite Ultimate but you can grab it now from github.

It appears that the economic downturn and the dispute with WP Engine may be impacting Automattic’s valuation.

I didn’t realize that 10up (now Fueled) helped to develop Google Site Kit. The plugin has more than 5 million active installs and is an easy way to setup Google Analytics and show basic stats inside your admin. This article outlines the stages of the development and suggests the next step in the plan for the plugin.

For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 15), the team from Equalize Digital ran a contribution challenge. Lots of people contributed in all sorts of different ways. Here’s the recap.