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poststatus.com · Group blog · on HN since 2015
Post Status is a news and community site for the WordPress ecosystem, covering Automattic, acquisitions, releases and WordPress politics.
What HN saysHN links it for WordPress news, such as the Tumblr purchase, and commenters use it to explain that WordPress and Automattic are different things.
15HN people shared it
4linked it in comments
29stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Automattic has purchased Tumblr2 people · 31 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 2The trojan Emoji2 people · 20 points · first shared 2015 · 5 comments on HN
- 3Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app2 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 4WordPress as a Commons (2022)2 people · 6 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 5Alex King, an original Wordpress developer, has died1 people · 339 points · first shared 2015 · 37 comments on HN
- 6Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress: A Conflict of Ideology1 people · 112 points · first shared 2015 · 49 comments on HN
- 7WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released1 people · 77 points · first shared 2015 · 16 comments on HN
- 8GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP1 people · 13 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 9Happytables is taking on Squarespace for restaurant websites with new platform1 people · 9 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 10WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Elementor (WordPress plugin) has raised $15M, led by Lightspeed1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 12WordPress 4.7 Released1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2015 (WordPress)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14WordPress and the New European Union VAT (Value-Added Tax) Rules1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15Ringing the Bell for Our Own Acquisition1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
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alberth · 2024-10-03
Can someone ELI5 this whole topic?
Is the crux of the issue that WPE website use to say things like:
"Start creating on WordPress today" or
"Power your creativity on the #1 platform for WordPress" Which might have implied that WPE was official Wordpress?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220105010059/https://wpengine.com/
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In comparison to other companies like Pressable that simply use marketing copy like:
"WordPress Hosting that Means Business" https://pressable.com
Though this is also confusing, because Automattic acquired majority equity stake in Pressable. So Pressable is Automattic.
https://poststatus.com/automattic-pressable/
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There's so much happening with this story that I feel like I don't understand what the root issue is.
tnorthcutt · 2019-08-14
The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr
WordPress != Automattic.
More context here: https://poststatus.com/resources/wordpress-versus-automattic/
evanelias · 2019-08-12
According to this article [1], you plan to move Tumblr's backend onto WordPress. Considering that Tumblr's infra stores over 1 trillion distinct product objects, this would be one of the most technically ambitious migrations in history. Can you share any thoughts of how it will be approached? Will you be pruning/purging old content or inactive users?
[1] https://poststatus.com/automattic-has-purchased-tumblr/
exolymph · 2016-10-10
In my experience as a not-very-technical person who has worked with WordPress extensively and dabbled in static site generators, WordPress is an order of magnitude easier to deal with.
Further thoughts on this: https://poststatus.com/static-site-generators-versus-wordpress/