WordPress.org Releases New ‘Secure Custom Fields’ Plugin With ACF Pro Features

[Jyolsna]

[See the full post at: WordPress.org Releases New ‘Secure Custom Fields’ Plugin With ACF Pro Features]

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[Nat Miletic]

While the majority is against WordPress.org’s action, some support getting the pro features for free. – LOL

It was quite a surprise logging into some of our client sites and seeing a SCF plugin that we never installed.

We will be sticking with ACF Pro.

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[Aaron Reimann]

It’s extremely sad how this all played out. Honesty, integrity, and ethics are no longer important to the WordPress ecosystem as the leader continues to demonstrate that. ACF is stolen property, plugin developers no longer have a reason to submit their code to .org.

I’ll still use WordPress until I can find something better, but a big piece of the WordPress community died when Auto[Matt]ic took over ACF.

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[Dodi]

It has always been clear, that Open Source licenses allow forking, it is a basic necessity. A necessity, that has been ignored far too long, because that seemed to produce a balanced outcome by providing “Pro” plugins and themes, that the ecosystem seemed to profit from. Imho that profiteering has been reversed over the past years. The commitment to classic Open Source has turned into often highly profitable business models, that even hinder the further development of Core, because “there’s already a plugin for that.”

WordPress still has a long history of such nuisances, that have to be dealt with using plugins, e.g. changing the domain name, user rights and the interface, SEO, forms and email, hardening, … , and tada, working with custom fields.

Imho WP should go much further from here and fix what’s broken for a long time, instead of further outsourcing the work to SAAS vendors, whose business models increasingly became mirrors of those of the big monopolistic / enshittified big players.

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[Sidaani]

This situation is heating up! Automattic’s release of “Secure Custom Fields” raises concerns about licensing, copyright, and ethics. While users get free features, the removal of key functions and bypassing the review process adds to the controversy. The legal hearing today could have big implications for the WordPress ecosystem.

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