Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in North California, asking it to intervene and restore its access to the WordPress.org

The WordPress ecosystem is facing challenging times as a bitter dispute between the co-founder of the website building software, Matt Mullenweg, is engaged in a legal fight with WP Engine – a hosting service provider – that is threatening to reshape one of the internet’s most important web development platforms.

WordPress has been the most popular content management system for years — and WP Engine was one of the most popular WordPress hosting services around. Not long ago, everyone was happy. Now, it's a miserable open-source business war.

The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues, with Mullenweg announcing that WordPress is “forking” a

WordPress.org has introduced a fork of a popular WP Engine plugin in order “to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem,” WordPress cofounder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced today. This “minimal” update of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin is now called “Secure Custom Fields.”

WordPress has banned its user groups from accepting sponsorship from WP Engine – or even allowing its employees to attend events.

The WordPress ecosystem has been in turmoil for several weeks. However, many are critical of the battle for FOSS ideals, including David Heinemeier Hansson.