Instead, people are encouraged to donate to the Foundation, which helps with the development of WordPress the software and organizes things like WordCamps.
The blurb on the donation page reads:
> Money raised by the WordPress Foundation will be used to ensure free access to supported software projects, protect the WordPress trademark, and fund a variety of programs.
“Supported software projects” is a link that leads to a page that lists these software projects:
- WordPress
- WordPress Plugins
- WordPress Themes
- bbPress
- BuddyPress
It sure looks like the WordPress infra and plugins are supported by the donations from the WordPress.org footer link. If the money is going elsewhere, where is it going?
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network:Updated:20171214And, quick side note, no one from Automattic or WordPress Foundation would ever misspell WordPress!