For 20 years, WordPress existed without much drama—now it's at the center of a big fight that won't be over soon

There's a decent chance that any given website you visit runs on WordPress. Businesses large and small, along with big-name media outlets, swear by it. According to an oft-cited estimate, more than 40% of the web uses the open-source content management platform, originally built for blogging, to do all kinds of things. At one time, PC Gamer's website ran on WordPress.

But now there's a problem: In the past six months, the project's co-founder and longtime leader has alienated large chunks of its user and developer base...