Tweets From Michael Willman  ## Metadata - Author: [[@MichaelRedev on Twitter]] - Full Title: Tweets From Michael Willman - Category: #tweets - URL: https://twitter.com/MichaelRedev ## Document Notes ## Highlights - If you are a plugin or theme provider on https://t.co/gld6gtCMPV, Matt Mullenweg just stole all your backlinks and tanked your plugin website's organic SEO performance. A recent update to the https://t.co/vXTIdpo4IL repos has removed all links to author websites. This eliminates backlinks to plugin and theme authors from https://t.co/vXTIdpo4IL and removes an important source of paid plugin purchases for third party developers. Developers are now limited to links in the plugin or theme's readme file, which as of now still shows on the profile page. However, all of these links have a nofollow attribute applied by https://t.co/vXTIdpo4IL. Thus, the website itself is telling you not to visit these links. Wild. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/MichaelRedev/status/1898347251581210690)) - @photomatt @WordCampUS @schutzsmith The issue is that, nothing she said here is false. It IS a de-facto Automattic event, ran by the Automattic events team, with you holding the power to confirm or deny speakers on a whim. Should just open speaker submissions to any verified contributors and then let contributors ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/MichaelRedev/status/1935438926778613855))