Since WP Engine has filed a federal lawsuit against Automattic, I believe only the courts can decide the outcome unless the parties reach an amicable resolution outside of court. The official WordPress Twitter account tweeted that the situation could be resolved under the following conditions:
The answer is NO. Absolutely not.
WordPress powers over 43% of the websites on the Internet and is bigger than any one person or company. The vast majority of small business owners and WordPress users don’t even know about this ongoing drama because it simply doesn’t impact them.
I spoke to a local small business owner who is my personal trainer and he was completely unaware of the negative press surrounding WordPress. When I spoke to him briefly about it, this is what he said:
“I’m not going to switch from WordPress because some big company is having a trademark dispute. What matters venezuela telemarketing data to me is that my website works and my business grows.” – Sean Nelson, founder of Hustle Training 360 .
The reality is that the WordPress software you built your website with has not been modified.
If you use popular plugins like Elementor, WPForms , WooCommerce, AIOSEO , Duplicator and literally 60,000 others, they are always the same.
Something as big as WordPress doesn’t end simply because two companies have a trademark dispute.
In the grand scheme of things, it’s a small portion of users that are affected, and I’ll share how you can find out if your website is affected and what you can do about it.