- Sources: TechCrunch, HN discussion
- Summary: An Automattic spokesperson told TechCrunch that Mullenweg is chairman and CEO with the full support of the board, which closes the sequence this digest carried on 2026-09-10 and 2026-09-11. The board had voted to put him on paid leave for unstated reasons and named CFO Mark Davies interim CEO, and per TechCrunch he removed other admins from the company Slack rather than departing. Mullenweg gave no official comment on his return. TechCrunch also reports board changes it states are unconfirmed, including board member and founding CEO Toni Schneider stepping down, with Automattic not responding to its questions and Schneider not returning requests.
- Why it matters: WordPress, WooCommerce and the wordpress.org infrastructure that hosting and plugin work depends on stay under the same control they were under before the board vote.
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