[batuhanicoz]

WordPress.org is operated by Matt Mullenweg as a free service that hosts plugins, themes, docs and more. It does not take donations, or as far I am aware, make any profits.

Instead, people are encouraged to donate to the Foundation, which helps with the development of WordPress the software and organizes things like WordCamps.

[JimDabell]

Wait, so if somebody goes to WordPress.org, clicks the donate button, arrives at a page to donate to the WordPress Foundation, and donates, that money does not go towards funding WordPress.org?

The blurb on the donation page reads:

> Money raised by the WordPress Foundation will be used to ensure free access to supported software projects, protect the WordPress trademark, and fund a variety of programs.

“Supported software projects” is a link that leads to a page that lists these software projects:

- WordPress

- WordPress Plugins

- WordPress Themes

- bbPress

- BuddyPress

It sure looks like the WordPress infra and plugins are supported by the donations from the WordPress.org footer link. If the money is going elsewhere, where is it going?

[KomoD]

So why is it hosted on IP addresses associated with the foundation?

    %rwhois V-1.5:003eff:00 rwhois.singlehop.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5)
    network:Class-Name:network
    network:ID:ORG-SINGL-8.198-143-164-0/24
    network:Auth-Area:198.143.128.0/18
    network:IP-Network:198.143.164.0/24

>>> network:Organization:The Wordpress Foundation

    network:Street-Address:660 4TH ST # 119
    network:City:SAN FRANCISCO
    network:State:CA
    network:Postal-Code:94107
    network:Country-Code:US
    network:Tech-Contact;I:NETWO1546-ARIN
    network:Admin-Contact;I:NETWO1546-ARIN
    network:Abuse-Contact;I:ABUSE2492-ARIN
    network:Created:20171214
    network:Updated:20171214

[snowwrestler]

The funniest outcome to this little internecine WP fight would be an IRS investigation into the intermingling of Wordpress.org, Foundation, Automattic, Matt, etc.

[batuhanicoz]

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I asked people who are helping with the infra of WordPress.org and they are not sure why Singlehop is showing "The Wordpress Foundation" for those IPs. They belong to the hosting provider W.ORG is using and this is just mislabelling on their part. Relevant people will get in touch and ask them to correct it.

And, quick side note, no one from Automattic or WordPress Foundation would ever misspell WordPress!

[jacooper]

This is stupid, something like WordPress.org should obviously be under the foundation, as it's an essential part of the entire wp ecosystem.