Website hosting supplier WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court docket in North California, asking it to intervene and restore its entry to the WordPress.org open-source repository.
After WP Engine filed a lawsuit towards WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and Automattic final month, Mulleweng — who additionally owns WordPress.org — blocked the corporate’s entry to the open-source undertaking.
This additionally meant that WP Engine couldn’t replace its Superior Customized Fields (ACF) plug-in, which is used to create and customise their edit screens. Earlier this month, WordPress took management of ACF and forked it, citing developer pointers, which provides them management to alter a plug-in “with out developer consent, within the title of public security.”
With the most recent submitting, WP Engine seeks to revive the “established order because it existed previous to September 20, 2024” by way of the corporate’s entry to the open-source repo.
“WPE respectfully requests that the Courtroom concern a preliminary injunction restoring and preserving the established order because it existed previous to Defendants’ wrongful actions described above. The preliminary injunction requires no safety as a result of returning the state of affairs to the established order could have no unfavorable impact on Defendants,” the court docket submitting learn.
The corporate added that these protections must also be prolonged to its associates, companions, workers, customers, and clients.
Notably, Mullenweg added a brand new checkbox to the WordPress.org contributor login, asking individuals to confirm that they weren’t related to WP Engine in any manner earlier this month. At the moment, contributors stated that they have been banned from the group Slack for criticizing the transfer.
In a separate declaration hooked up to the submitting, WP Engine’s CEO Heather Brunner stated that till lately, she thought that “wordpress.org was related to and/or owned by the non-profit WordPress Basis.”
