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There's been no dispute around if WP Engine removed the news widget or not from their managed installs. Matt claims that removing that widget fundamentally brea
by unsnap_biceps 2y ago
There's been no dispute around if WP Engine removed the news widget or not from their managed installs. Matt claims that removing that widget fundamentally breaks Wordpress and thus broke all of WP Engine's sites.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoWait, wait - you mean when he wrote > the story of how WP Engine broke thousands of customer sites yesterday in their haphazard attempt to block our attempts to inform the wider WordPress community regarding their disabling and locking down a WordPress core feature in order to extract profit. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20241001091653/https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241001091653/https://wordpress... ) he just meant that they disabled the news widget? I assumed that tweet I couldn't see replies to was a thread about them accidentally breaking customer's external-facing sites by mistake when they took out the news widget, not that he's defining "removed this widget" as "breaking customer sites".
- duskwuff 2y agoI suppose that, if you define "any feature that ships with WordPress" (as opposed to a plugin) as a "WordPress core feature", then yes, disabling the WordPress news feed in wp-admin is technically "disabling a WordPress core feature". On the other hand, oh, come on!
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoYes, that's exactly it. They only removed the widget. Nothing broke other than people wouldn't see Matt's posts forced into their dashboard.