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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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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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“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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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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Yeah I did not take a liking to the block editor when it was first released.
I have slowly got some use out of it by letting it be the default editor for the blog posts, and still sticking with page builders for the actual site layout.
If you haven’t done it recently, spin up a new wp install and go through the set up steps. It has totally changed now, with a really slick onboarding experience. You wouldn’t even recognise it as WordPress.
Plus the block editor isn’t that bad for basic editing and actually can even manage some advanced scenarios now.
I think this is difficult for existing users to adjust to as its a “who moved my cheese” type situation, but from a clients point of view where they might already have tried out Wix or Squarespace, this kind of slick interface is what they are looking for.
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I sincerely hope Matt and the leadership at WordPress are taking careful note of responses like these. He is on a mission to destroy or seriously punish WPEngine, at all costs evidently. Why? Because he doesn’t believe they contribute enough to WordPress as an open source project. Maybe they don’t, I don’t know, but I do know that he is putting the entire project at risk — and probably billions of dollars worth of human investment in time and money into WordPress websites — all to punish WPEngine. There ARE other open source platforms out there, and people will get fed up with this drama, and the potential risk of their own investments into the WordPress ecosystem, and just move on. Maybe he’ll succeed at punishing or destroying WPEngine, but it will just be a massive pyrrhic victory with everybody being the losers.
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