🚫 Fuck WordPress 🚫

In August 2025, it will be one year since I was banned from WordPress.org. At the time, I tried to create a plugin and ended up being banned.

I'm quite antisocial; I don't like participating in those developer communities. I find it all so tacky, designed to soothe the egos of mediocre people who suffer from a "small power" syndrome.

Since being banned from WordPress, I've completely stopped developing some plugins I was creating for the platform. I even considered creating my own independent plugin store, but I realized that wasn't viable.

I was quite annoyed with that toxic WordPress.org community. I thought the problem was me, until the controversies between WordPress and WP Engine arose, when WordPress.org appropriated the WP Engine plugin, confirming that the centralization there serves to protect their own ego, not the community. Which only proved that I wasn't wrong, WordPress is full of mediocre people who only think about themselves.

Since then, I've been waiting and searching for an AGPL-3 alternative that can replace WordPress and offer backward compatibility with plugins, which is the hardest part to maintain. I'm hoping for a responsible fork of WordPress. I did find an interesting version made with Laravel, but unfortunately the project was abandoned.

WordPress needs an alternative that doesn't fall into the hands of these people.

I'm glad to know that the Linux Foundation has created a solution for this: the Fair Package Manager. This initiative combats the absurd centralization that exists today in WordPress, especially in the distribution of plugins, and already represents an important step forward in reducing the extreme dependence on this toxic community.

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