Mary Hubbard, the new director of the WordPress project has started in her new position.

WP Engine expanded their claims against Automattic and Matt to include recent activity, like the WP Engine Tracker.

For product authors – This is a good discussion about hosting your themes and plugins in the WordPress directory in light of the news about the directory ownership. They discuss pros and cons as well as other options.

Automattic has published a site that tracks customers who left WP Engine and provides a downloadable list of those remaining. This is an escalation of the dispute between Automattic vs WP Engine.

This is a fantastic post by Marieke van de Rakt and Joost about how the community drives the success of WordPress.

The dispute between WP Engine on the one side and Automattic and Matt Mullenweg on the other, is spilling into the mainstream now. The BBC reports on the dispute and how it is bringing uncertainty and risk to WordPress businesses.

Lots of people have lost access to developer support due to the current conflict. The conflict impacts more people due to a rippling effect.

HeroPress celebrates its 10th anniversary. It is a website that highlights those who have had success through their connection with WordPress.

Akshat Choudhary, founder of BlogVault, creates an open source WordPress update mirror called Morpheus.