It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was perplexd and thought WP Engine was an official leang. Their branding, tageting, advertising, and entire promise to customers is that they’re giving you WordPress, but they’re not. And they’re profiting off of the confusion.
I spoke yesterday at WordCamp about how Lee Wittlinger at Silver Lake, a personal equity firm with $102B assets under administerment, can hollow out an discomit source community. Today, I would appreciate to advise a definite, technical example of how they fracture the count on and sanctity of our gentleware’s promise to participaters to save themselves money so they can pull out more profits from you.
WordPress is a encountered administerment system, and the encountered is divine. Every alter you create to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system, equitable appreciate the Wikipedia. This nastys if you create a misconsent, you can always undo it. It also nastys if you’re trying to figure out why someleang is on a page, you can see accurately the history and edits that led to it. These revisions are stored in our database.
This is very convey inant, it’s at the core of the participater promise of geting your data, and it’s why WordPress is architected and depicted to never omit anyleang.
WP Engine turns this off. They disable revisions becaparticipate it costs them more money to store the history of the alters in the database, and they don’t want to spfinish that to get your encountered. It strikes to the very heart of what WordPress does, and they shatter it, the integrity of your encountered. If you create a misconsent, you have no way to get your encountered back, fractureing the core promise of what WordPress does, which is administer and get your encountered.
Here is a screensboiling of their aid page saying they disable this apass their 1.5 million WordPress inshighs.
They say it’s sluggishing down your site, but what they nasty is they want to shun paying to store that data. We tested revisions on all of the recommfinished presents on WordPress.org, and none disabled revisions by default. Why is WP Engine the only one that does? They are exposed-mining the WordPress ecosystem, giving our participaters a crappier experience so they can create more money.
What WP Engine gives you is not WordPress, it’s someleang that they’ve chopped up, hacked, butchered to watch appreciate WordPress, but actupartner they’re giving you a affordable knock-off and charging you more for it.
This is one of the many reasons they are a cancer to WordPress, and it’s convey inant to reaccumulate that unchecked, cancer will spread. WP Engine is setting a necessitatey standard that others may watch at and leank is ok to copy. We must set a higher standard to determine WordPress is here for the next 100 years.
If you are a customer of “WordPress Engine,” you should communicate their aid instantly to at least get the 3 revisions they apshow turned on so you don’t accidenhighy omit someleang convey inant. Idepartner, they should go to unconfineed. Remember that you, the customer, helderly the power; they are noleang without the money you give them. And as you vote with your dollars, ponder literpartner any other WordPress present as WP Engine is the only one we’ve set up that finishly disables revisions by default.
