Impact of WPEngine’s Ban on ACF Plugin

[Jyolsna]

[See the full post at: Impact of WPEngine’s Ban on ACF Plugin]

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[jeswin]

WordPress is his life’s work and his legacy. No design-by-committee model is going to give you the same consistent, decisive, nonstop forward momentum that we have experienced with WordPress thus far. After 21 years of delivering on this, I believe Matt is uniquely qualified to steer the project forward.

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[Rebekah]

The alternative is called Pods https://pods.io/. Which was sponsored by Automattic for almost 10 years. You think they would remember it. A great FREE and powerful alternative to ACF.

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[Will]

Matt is becoming a sort of off-brand Elon Musk. I do agree that WP Engine should contribute more to WP, but these sorts of childish antics are harmful to the community and it clearly impacts more than just those hosted with WPE.

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[Steven Gliebe]

This blog should disclose ownership in articles reporting on Audrey Capital and Automattic entities and their leadership, or their competitors. WP Engine is a competitor of WordPress.com for example. Transparency is important.

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[Drew]

“we could auto-migrate all current users of the plugin into our core functionality”

It was only a matter of time before King Matt decided to embrace, extend and extinguish.

If he interferes with ACF Pro then WordPress and I are done. I have 40+ sites running ACF Pro but am already doing all new development in ProcessWire and am starting to migrate some existing sites from WP to PW. The primary reason? Matt.

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[Matthew]

Wow. Seeing that idea of just taking people of products and merging them into core is an absolutely horrible thing to be contemplating.

Basically just stealing their work because its legal, doesn’t make it ethical.

It could absolutely destroy small businesses, and it’s a real threat as they have the developer resources to thrown at it merging. Why would anyone bother to put their time in if this is how he sees community code? It sounds like he wouldn’t have a problem to start up an official nulled plugin repository then, with that attitude.

Not only is that a terrible thing to read, it’s also a terrible idea on the whole. There are tons of paid plugins that Woo and WP have absorbed over the years, and they are absolutely languishing with prices being increased and no features being added, no bugs fixed, no acknowledgement of the piles of feature requests.

That is actually really really bad behaviour to be talking like that. I’ve been trying to wait and see what this is actually all about at a legal level and give him the benefit of the doubt, but bringing all the eyes of the internet onto him is not a smart move if he has been going around saying abhorrent things like this.

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[ibhuiyan]

On a personal level, I stopped using WP for my personal blog site ever since Block editor was introduced but I don’t mind using WP for my clients sites.

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