# Doc Pop News Drop: The creator of ClassicPress tells us why he forked WordPress
**Date:** 2018-09-06
**Author:** Dan Maby
**Categories:** WordPress, Development, Gutenberg
> Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. There’s been a lot of discussion around WordPress 5.0 recently including some folks who want to fork the WordPress project at 4.9. In last week’s video …
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Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you.

There’s been a lot of discussion around WordPress 5.0 recently including some folks who want to fork the WordPress project at 4.9. In [last week’s video](https://youtu.be/PdiECq69m8Y) we talked with Morten Rand-Hendrickson about why he thinks a split would be a bad idea. [This week](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-pn7YyOnQ) we talked with Scott Bowler, the founder of “ClassicPress”, about why he decided to fork WordPress.

Like the chat with Morten, I think there’s a lot of interesting thoughts in this video and we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

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