Matt Mullenweg returned from WordCamp Asia in April 2026 and, catching up on Slack messages during his flight home, found a 10-day-old ping about a disputed Trac ticket involving Akismet and WordPress 7.0. What followed was a wide-ranging critique of WordPress’s development direction in the #core-committers channel. Mullenweg described the Akismet ticket as “a microcosm of … Continue reading Mullenweg Calls WordPress “Mediocre Crap” and Overrules Core Committers on 7.0