This WordPress Gutenberg linking feature should be in every text editor

This WordPress Gutenberg linking feature should be in every text editor

ByJosh Bernoff

WordPress includes a linking feature missing from every other text-editing application. They all ought to copy it. In 2018, Automattic, the parent company of the blogging platform WordPress, debuted the block-based editor Gutenberg for authoring blog posts. People hated it, but it made sense — advanced bloggers were building blogs out of blocks anyway. By…

In the Wix vs. WordPress fight, impressions matter
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In the Wix vs. WordPress fight, impressions matter

ByJosh Bernoff

Matt Mullenweg, the originator of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, is fighting with Avishai Abrahami, CEO of Wix. (Both companies make it easy to build web content.) The question driving this fight is the appropriate use of open source code. But what’s really at stake is reputation — and on that front, Abrahami’s wry commentary…