This week on Plugin Pulse: WP Plugins A to Z Unplugged, John Overall flies solo and wastes zero time ripping into the StellarWP fiasco that just torched the WordPress ecosystem. Liquid Web quietly retired the entire brand on May 12, folding The Events Calendar, Kadence, LearnDash, GiveWP and a dozen others into four generic Liquid Web products. The rollout was a total dumpster fire—broken logins for lifetime users, vanished docs and changelogs, an invasive “Liquid Web” admin menu that screamed up-sell, and brand domains redirecting to bare landing pages with zero respect for SEO or user trust. Community reaction was nuclear on X and Reddit, and John calls it exactly what it is: private-equity cost-cutting at its ugliest, leaving agencies and site owners scrambling for exit plans.