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Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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Oh god, this gave me a minor heart attack. We are using over 20 ACF fields for 150+ sites. I thought it was completely out of the WordPress ecosystem. I am glad they have the zip download and continuing auto updates. EDIT: I confirm our ACF plugins on sites are all switched to secure custom fields. This is so shady, it broke our snippets because we are using prepend and append texts to wrap our field values. Now they…

this is my nightmare

Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #16
post #12

The official wp announcement of this said “we don’t plan on doing this to other plugins.” lol. anyone think they pinky promise? More like: build on Wordpress and unless you kiss the ring some guy named Matt will disappear your business.

https://x.com/WordPress/status/1845180576531468375 > Hey @WordPress. Are there any further plugins that we can expect to be forked? > There are no others we're aware of at this time, but you are welcome to suggest some.

I thought that was satire, but they actually asked for suggestions…

Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #9

Oh god, this gave me a minor heart attack. We are using over 20 ACF fields for 150+ sites. I thought it was completely out of the WordPress ecosystem. I am glad they have the zip download and continuing auto updates. EDIT: I confirm our ACF plugins on sites are all switched to secure custom fields. This is so shady, it broke our snippets because we are using prepend and append texts to wrap our field values. Now they…

This should be the top comment. It's already scary for a package manager to take control of a community package, even more so when sites auto-update to new code... but to break existing sites by completely changing the code that is provided in an auto-update is beyond the pale.

Not a lawyer, but I imagine many consultancies will be talking to lawyers about this one; there are entire sections of law about interfering with other companies' contracts with each other. At minimum it's an appalling breach of trust.

Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #10

Hang on, the ACF plugin has been replaced by a different plugin, published by a different party? And install on every Wordpress installation?!?

The whole thing is https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance... it's very close to functionality wise right now to ACF. Not identical, already. While I am not a lawyer it almost certainly violates the ACF trademark as the code and reviews contains a lot of reference to ACF and the Advanced Custom Fields trademark which is literally the project slug. Some suspect a request for emergency injunction m…

Excuse me for being OOTL: what "WP Engine checkbox"?

Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole thing is https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance... it's very close to functionality wise right now to ACF. Not identical, already. While I am not a lawyer it almost certainly violates the ACF trademark as the code and reviews contains a lot of reference to ACF and the Advanced Custom Fields trademark which is literally the project slug. Some suspect a request for emergency injunction m…

Excuse me for being OOTL: what "WP Engine checkbox"?

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Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole thing is https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance... it's very close to functionality wise right now to ACF. Not identical, already. While I am not a lawyer it almost certainly violates the ACF trademark as the code and reviews contains a lot of reference to ACF and the Advanced Custom Fields trademark which is literally the project slug. Some suspect a request for emergency injunction m…

Excuse me for being OOTL: what "WP Engine checkbox"?

They added a checkbox to the wordpress.org login page https://login.wordpress.org/ stating "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.", you can't login to the site without checking it.

Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #9

Oh god, this gave me a minor heart attack. We are using over 20 ACF fields for 150+ sites. I thought it was completely out of the WordPress ecosystem. I am glad they have the zip download and continuing auto updates. EDIT: I confirm our ACF plugins on sites are all switched to secure custom fields. This is so shady, it broke our snippets because we are using prepend and append texts to wrap our field values. Now they…

How did the sites auto-update to have this plug-in removed/replaced? Are your sites set up to just automatically take push updates from WordPress central command or something and auto-modify themselves?!

Re: ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole thing is https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167679/advance... it's very close to functionality wise right now to ACF. Not identical, already. While I am not a lawyer it almost certainly violates the ACF trademark as the code and reviews contains a lot of reference to ACF and the Advanced Custom Fields trademark which is literally the project slug. Some suspect a request for emergency injunction m…

Excuse me for being OOTL: what "WP Engine checkbox"?

You must agree on sign up that you're not affiliated with WP Engine. WP has been having a spat with WP engine.
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