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Matt Mullenweg and WordPress Hijack the Advanced Custom Fields Plugin (pxlnv.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Statement by ACF: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-plugin-no-longer-available-on-wordpress-org/

Statement by Matt: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/

Additional comments by Theo: https://youtu.be/grZg-BEhKMI

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[–] podperson@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Yep - I’ve done both volunteer/free and professional work with WordPress, but after all of this drama that Matt has caused, I’ll be abandoning the platform for all future work. Too much uncertainty that happened at the drop of a hat, due to one person’s actions. Cant justify ever recommending that to anyone and feel like I’m presenting a sustainable and supportable option. Bummer too, since for certain use cases, it checks a lot of boxes.