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Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave on Wednesday and made its CFO interim CEO. Two days later Mullenweg told staff on Slack that the board is back in agreement, and no board member has confirmed it.
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Matt Mullenweg has named four new Automattic directors weeks after the old board's leave vote against him lasted 33 hours and 20 minutes. He controls 84% of the voting power, so the people who oversee him are people he chose.
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A dev.to comparison scores MCP tool design at 13 website builders and content systems against eight criteria. The two designs it walks through in full both take deletion out of the flat tool list and put it behind its own gate.
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A Thai-language walkthrough estimates 15 to 20 MCP calls to build a ceramics studio site on WordPress.com. Counting each documented operation, including one status update per item to publish, gets to 22.
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Automattic's directors put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave and handed the CEO job to their CFO. The plugin directory and the trademark that WordPress sites depend on are still his, held personally outside the company.
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Directors named the finance chief interim CEO on September 9 and left the open-source project's distribution servers under Mullenweg's personal control, while the WP Engine suit still names him alongside the company.
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