From Groundhogg to Guideline Violations: How the WordPress Plugins Team Enforces Trademarks

The closure of Groundhogg’s CRM plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory last week put a spotlight on the WordPress Plugins Team’s behind-the-scenes work policing trademarks, reviewing code, and keeping the repository’s 60,000 active plugins secure. On August 9, the Groundhogg team posted on X that the free version of their plugin had been closed for trademark infringement — specifically…

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