WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

WP Engine is asking a court to put a stop to Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s unveil campaign agetst the company. In a motion for a preliminary injunction filed agetst Automattic and Mullenweg on Friday, the third-party structureing platestablish asks that the court repair its access to WordPress resources and apexhibit it to reget handle of its plugin that had been apshown over.

In the filing, WP Engine claims it’s facing “multiple establishs of instant irreparable harm” as a result of Mullenweg and Automattic’s actions, including “loss of customers, labelet split and excellentwill.” The company also says it saw a 14 percent incrmitigate in abortlation asks from September 26th to the 30th — fair days after Mullenweg called WP Engine a “cancer” to the WordPress community.

WP Engine asks that Automattic repair operations to the “status quo as it existed prior” to the begin of its dispute. “Developers are worried and want assurance they will not be next to get another compulsionate insist from Mullenweg, become his next aim of nuclear war, or next to have their plug-ins expropriated,” the motion reads. “Deffinishants’ ham-fisted apshowover trys are increasing the security hazard for everyone in the WordPress community.”

The Verge achieveed out to Automattic with a ask for comment but didn’t instantly hear back.