{"id":1291,"date":"2025-01-13T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/2025\/01\/13\/matt-mullenweg-declares-holiday-break-for-wordpress-org-services\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:12:48","slug":"matt-mullenweg-declares-holiday-break-for-wordpress-org-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/matt-mullenweg-declares-holiday-break-for-wordpress-org-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Mullenweg Declares Holiday Break for WordPress.org Services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>WordPress.org Services to Take a Holiday Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Matt Mullenweg has announced a holiday break for WordPress.org services. In his blog post, he stated, \u201cIn order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we\u2019re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paused Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The paused services include new account registrations on WordPress.org, plugin reviews, and new submissions to the plugin, theme, and photo directories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WP Engine&#8217;s Access to WordPress.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During this time, WP Engine will retain full access to WordPress.org. Matt explained, \u201cAs you may have heard, I\u2019m legally compelled to provide free labor and services to WP Engine thanks to the success of their expensive lawyers, so in order to avoid bothering the court I will say that none of the above applies to WP Engine, so if they need to bypass any of the above please just have your high-priced attorneys talk to my high-priced attorneys and we\u2019ll arrange access, or just reach out directly to me on Slack and I\u2019ll fix things for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resumption of Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt has not provided a specific date for resuming these services, stating, \u201c<strong>I hope to find the time, energy, and money to reopen all of this sometime in the new year. Right now much of the time I would spend making WordPress better is being taken up defending against WP Engine\u2019s legal attacks. Their attacks are against Automattic, but also me individually as the owner of WordPress.org, which means I need to focus on that right now.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion on Reddit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussions are continuing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Wordpress\/comments\/1hi8880\/in_the_spirit_of_the_season_matt_blames_holiday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wptavern.com\/matt-mullenweg-declares-holiday-break-for-wordpress-org-services\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress.org Services to Take a Holiday Break For the first time, Matt Mullenweg has announced a holiday break for WordPress.org services. In his blog post, he stated, \u201cIn order to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/WordPress.org-Holiday-Break-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}