The court ordered Mullenweg and Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org

A California District Court judge issued a preliminary injunction to WP Engine. The order asks WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and WordPress.com owner Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, a WordPress theme and plugin repository site owned by Mullenweg.

Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin noted WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, themes, plugins and subdomains. It should be restored as it was on September 20, when Mullenwing issued remarks indicating that the WP engine was “Cancer to WordPress” at an event.

Mullenweg has blocked WP Engine on September 25 Access to WordPress.org. After granting grace for a few days, on October 1, this ban was made permanent.

This ban also resulted in WP Engine being unable to access and update the popular Advanced Custom Field (ACF) plugin. automatic Take control of the pluginI divided them and called them Secure Custom Fields (SCF). The court also ordered Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access and control of ACF on WordPress.org.

What’s more, the order states that Automattic must also remove the list of clients in the “domains.csv” file associated with WP Engine clients on the WordPressenginetracker.com site. Company He created the site to show how many customers have stopped using WP Engine Since the feud against Mullenweg and Automattic began in September.

Another point in the request asked Automattic and Mullenweg to remove the check mark on the WordPress.org login page that asks developers to disclose whether they are affiliated with WP Engine “in any way, financially or otherwise.” WordPress.org He started Included This checkbox is on October 8th.

The judge ordered Automattic and Mullenweg to implement these steps within 72 hours.

Automattic and WP Engine had not commented on the story at the time of publication.