<story><title>WP Engine is not WordPress</title><url>https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Am I missing something? This feels like such a bizarre hill to die on. He&amp;#x27;s upset that a company offers hosting of his software with a default setting changed. I guess, don&amp;#x27;t have that setting then?&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no mention of the source code being changed or custom patches being applied. So the allegation that it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress&amp;quot; is maximally overblown. Unless, again, I&amp;#x27;m completely missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>safety1st</author><text>He owns a competitor, Wordpress.com.&lt;p&gt;That said, his point is valid. WPEngine is one of the most expensive hosts in the industry yet they meddle with the behavior of WP as well as the underlying PHP and web server and disable a lot of things. Anyone who would like to build a website on WPEngine is advised to read:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wpengine.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;platform-settings&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wpengine.com&amp;#x2F;support&amp;#x2F;platform-settings&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s just the stuff they admit to.&lt;p&gt;The revisions being pulled out are the most egregious I would say. Revisions are an insanely important feature for some publishers, we&amp;#x27;ve had enterprise customers who had to fight tooth and nail to get this turned back on and paid an arm and a leg for it, this would not have been a problem on any other WP host I&amp;#x27;m aware of.&lt;p&gt;Their &amp;#x27;long query governor&amp;#x27; can be very frustrating and in my experience, contrary to this document it cannot be fully disabled.&lt;p&gt;All these restrictions have crept in over the last few years. WP Engine pulled the usual trick of finding ways to lock people in, and then reducing service to increase margins.</text></comment>
<story><title>WP Engine is not WordPress</title><url>https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Am I missing something? This feels like such a bizarre hill to die on. He&amp;#x27;s upset that a company offers hosting of his software with a default setting changed. I guess, don&amp;#x27;t have that setting then?&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no mention of the source code being changed or custom patches being applied. So the allegation that it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;something that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to look like WordPress&amp;quot; is maximally overblown. Unless, again, I&amp;#x27;m completely missing something.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kye</author><text>Automattic&amp;#x27;s own managed WordPress platform severely restricts features all the way up to the top plan. I guess it&amp;#x27;s okay for them to do it.&lt;p&gt;edit: I am referring to WordPress.com which is the offering comparable to WP Engine.</text></comment>