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Re:Award Winning, Managing Editor of WPMU Dev Is Probably Copy-Pasting... on Monday November 16, 2015 @06:21PM (#10578075)

Tom Ewer writes for Rae, she's the editor at WPMU DEV. ;)

They regularly converse about all the articles they both write for their profession. Don't you see the connection between articles written for both companies?

Still a lot about nothing really. A couple of links were copied whilst researching, but the content was all unique for both sites.

Cheers.

Re:Award Winning, Managing Editor of WPMU Dev Is Probably Copy-Pasting... on Monday November 16, 2015 @06:01PM (#10577964)

Hey, Detaro.

Thanks for commenting, that pretty much seems to sum up what happened here. A lots of fuss about nothing, really.

Have a great day! :)

Re:Award Winning, Managing Editor of WPMU Dev Is Probably Copy-Pasting... on Monday November 16, 2015 @06:00PM (#10577955)

Hmmm.... So, their article:

http://www.wpexplorer.com/best-builder-wordpress/

Written by Tom Ewer, he writes for us too. In fact, Tom originally started working for us a number of years back, there is bound to be some cross over ;)

He's a great guy, met up with him in real life a couple of times. If you enjoyed his article, check out his latest one with us here:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/buddypress-interactive-plugi...

And our article which you compared with:

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-drag-and-drop-page-build...

Content is unique, as are the images. Three links appear to go through WPExplorer which would imply to me that they were a source whilst researching our article. Really sorry to WPExplorer for sending traffic through their link, we've corrected that for them.

It's natural that content will overlap, especially for popular themes and plugins or where companies share authors writing for both sites. Companies will also naturally use each other as inspiration, especially in a close community.

Not sure that really warranted all the commotion, you really could have just emailed them and CC'd us so that we could correct this matter. No need to make us chase, worrying that one of our staff had simply scraped content, which, of course, would not be cool. Your original tweet"@WPExplorer I’m pretty sure WPMUdev stole a part of an article from you. DM me I’ll send you a link." implied we'd scraped a chunk of their article and stole their work, that was a bit harsh really.

Oh well, thanks for letting us know in the end. Next time feel free to just reach out, we're all human and we can all work together.

Have a fantastic day. :)