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This is particularly bananas as ACF is basically table stakes for doing anything beyond blogging. I’d assume most websites that make actual money are thoroughly dependent on it. To twist the knife on a personal spat, Mullenweg just blew up uncountable businesses on a double-holiday weekend. At this point, seriously, fuck that guy.
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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.
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 particularly bananas as ACF is basically table stakes for doing anything beyond blogging. I’d assume most websites that make actual money are thoroughly dependent on it. To twist the knife on a personal spat, Mullenweg just blew up uncountable businesses on a double-holiday weekend. At this point, seriously, fuck that guy.
They replaced ACF with a forked version so the functionality is still there. That doesn't excuse it but the situation is not so dire for users.
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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.
And very importantly: no one knows what that checkbox means and what are the consequences of checking it.
To me this is indistinguishable from an account takeover attack executed by an insider. I doubt any prosecutor would be interested, but to my eyes WordPress.org has violated the CFAA by accessing WordPress instances outside the bounds of their authorization. They were authorized to modify WordPress instances in ways ACF prescribed, not in ways of their own choosing. I'm not saying I'd like to see Mullenweg in chains,…
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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…
I’d love to hear how he justifies taking away this engineers’ Sunday? I doubt this person is the only person working this weekend due to Matt’s theft of ACF
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They replaced ACF with a forked version so the functionality is still there. That doesn't excuse it but the situation is not so dire for users.
Asking for a friend... What's the migration path to a different plugin look like? Seamless? Better be duckin seamless