This Is Freaking Awesome!!!
🔗 **Source:** [This Is Freaking Awesome!!!](https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/2097874691696599128/?rw_tt_thread=True)
> [!note]+ Document Notes
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> tags: [wordpress-plugins, plugin-security, wordpress-org, security-automation]
> author: Matt Mullenweg
> source: X (@photomatt)
> reference: https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/2097874691696599128/
> date created: 2026-09-10
> ---
> > [!info] Generated analysis — not the author's words. Sections below are machine-written
> > from the captured source. Only text inside `> [!quote]` blocks is verbatim from the author.
> > Do not quote or attribute any other line to the named author.
> > [!warning] Fairness note. Matt Mullenweg is a named individual currently involved in
> > active litigation (the WP Engine dispute). This note attributes his statement, and the
> > statement he's quote-tweeting, to their respective authors, and doesn't adopt either
> > person's characterization as independently verified fact.
> # 🏷️ Title: THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!
> ## 🧭 Table of Contents
> - [📝 Summary](#-summary)
> - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content)
> - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes)
> - [📚 References](#-references)
> - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase)
> - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter)
> - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items)
> - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses)
> - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology)
> - [❓ Questions](#-questions)
> - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research)
> - [💡 Implications](#-implications)
> - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment)
> - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment)
> - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment)
> - [✅ Logical Validity](#-logical-validity)
> - [🛡️ DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis)
> - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion)
> - [🔄 Refactor Appendix](#-refactor-appendix--this-is-freaking-awesome)
> ### 🔗 References
> - [🗒️ Notes — Mullenweg's reply and Pérez's quoted post, separated by author](#️-notes)
> - [🔄 Refactor Appendix — why this piece gets zero Literature atoms](#-refactor-appendix--this-is-freaking-awesome)
> ## 📝 Summary
> - **What happened.** Matt Mullenweg quote-tweeted a post by David Pérez (@davidperezmk) with an enthusiastic reaction — "THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!" — followed by a one-line correction: "But you left off a T." Pérez's original post claims that "automatic security reviews for plugin updates" launched on WordPress.org that day.
> - **Why it matters.** Mullenweg's own contribution is an endorsement and a minor correction, not a new factual claim. The substantive claim — that a new automatic security review feature for plugin updates shipped on WordPress.org — belongs to Pérez, and the captured text of Pérez's post is truncated ("providing insights into reports for plugins that have reached a ...") before it states specifics.
> - **Key stakeholders.** Mullenweg (WordPress.org co-founder, endorsing the claim); David Pérez, the post's original author; the wider community of WordPress plugin developers and site owners the feature would affect if accurately described.
> - **Risks and tradeoffs.** None stated by Mullenweg's own text. Whatever risk or tradeoff the actual feature carries isn't addressed in the truncated capture of Pérez's post.
> - **Bottom line.** This is Mullenweg amplifying someone else's claim, plus a typo note ("left off a T") whose referent isn't identifiable from the captured content. There's no independent factual claim from Mullenweg here to evaluate.
> ## 📖 Main Content
> The captured post is a quote-tweet: Mullenweg's own text is two short sentences — enthusiastic agreement, then a specific, minor correction pointing out that something (unspecified in the capture) is "left off a T." Beneath his text, Reader's capture embeds the post he's replying to, from David Pérez, which makes the actual substantive claim: that "automatic security reviews for plugin updates were launched today," described as making "sites that use plugins from WordPress org better and more secure" and as "a huge step forward, providing insights into reports for plugins that have reached a ..." — the sentence is cut off mid-thought in the capture, with WordPress.org itself written as "WordPress org" (no dot) in Pérez's text.
> That truncation matters for how this note is written: the specific mechanism, scope, or detail of "automatic security reviews for plugin updates" is not fully stated in what was captured, so this note can't verify or restate it as a complete claim. What is captured attributes the claim to Pérez, a third party, not to Mullenweg. Mullenweg's endorsement ("THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!!") signals agreement with the substance, and his co-founder role at WordPress.org gives that endorsement some informal weight — but agreement with an outside account of a feature launch is not the same as Mullenweg making the claim himself, and the post doesn't add any detail Pérez's account didn't already contain.
> The "you left off a T" line is the one detail unique to Mullenweg's own text, and it's also the one detail this note can't resolve: nothing in the captured content indicates which word is missing a "T." It reads as a lighthearted, in-context correction (plausibly a typo in Pérez's original post, corrected between when Mullenweg replied and when this was captured, or referring to a detail outside the truncated portion) — flagged here as unresolved rather than guessed at.
> ## 🗒️ Notes
> - Mullenweg's full reply, in order:
> > [!quote]
> > THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!! But you left off a T.
> - Pérez's quoted post, truncated in the capture at "reached a ...":
> > [!quote]
> > I'm happy to say that automatic security reviews for plugin updates were launched today. This will make sites that use plugins from WordPress org better and more secure. This is a huge step forward, providing insights into reports for plugins that have reached a ...
> - The referent of "you left off a T" is not identifiable from the captured content — no earlier or later text clarifies which word or name is missing the letter.
> - Reader's capture shows Pérez's post timestamped "Posted Sep 9, 2026 at 9:53PM"; Mullenweg's reply was saved to Reader the next day, 2026-09-10.
> - Not a transcript; no timestamps apply, so no timestamped segment links are used here.
> ## 📚 References
> - [David Pérez (@davidperezmk) — the post Mullenweg is quote-tweeting](https://twitter.com/davidperezmk/status/2097805506245018003)
> ## 🗣️ Paraphrase
> Mullenweg reacted enthusiastically to someone else's announcement that WordPress.org had launched automatic security reviews for plugin updates, and added a quick note that they'd missed a letter somewhere.
> There isn't a second idea to paraphrase — the substance of the claim being reacted to belongs to Pérez's post, not to Mullenweg's own words, and Pérez's account is itself cut off before it finishes describing the feature.
> ## 📰 Newsletter
> Matt Mullenweg gave an enthusiastic public thumbs-up today to a claim, posted by David Pérez, that WordPress.org launched automatic security reviews for plugin updates — framed as making plugin-using sites "better and more secure." Worth watching for anyone who maintains or reviews WordPress plugins, though the captured post cuts off before describing exactly how the review works or what "insights into reports" means in practice — treat Pérez's account as the claim to verify against WordPress.org's own documentation, not as confirmed by this endorsement alone.
> ## ✅ Action Items
> #### DevRel
> - **Plugins/Security liaison overlap:** if accurate, an automatic security review feature for plugin updates is directly relevant to plugin-developer education and documentation — but this note can't confirm the feature's scope from the truncated source, so treat any outreach content as pending verification against WordPress.org's own announcement, not this post.
> #### OSPO
> - **Security Management:** the claimed feature (automatic security reviews for plugin updates) is squarely an OSPO vulnerability-intake and review-process concern if it's accurately described — worth a verification pass against WordPress.org's own release notes before treating it as confirmed.
> #### Community
> - Not applicable beyond the general interest any plugin-security change would have for plugin authors; no specific community program or engagement content in this post.
> #### WordPress
> - **Plugins:** the most directly relevant subteam — an automatic review step for plugin updates would
THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!! But you left off a T.
[David Pérez](https://twitter.com/davidperezmk)
[@davidperezmk](https://twitter.com/davidperezmk)
I'm happy to say that automatic security reviews for plugin updates were launched today. This will make sites that use plugins from WordPress org better and more secure. This is a huge step forward, providing insights into reports for plugins that have reached a ...
[Posted Sep 9, 2026 at 9:53PM](https://twitter.com/davidperezmk/status/2097805506245018003), This Is Freaking Awesome!!!, Matt Mullenweg, 01m25n7nyr1hmevhq5dj528c30.