Rating: 5 stars
So let me get this straight: someone who has created and maintained this plugin for over a decade has had it ripped from their control and taken over by WordPress?
How does that inspire trust in this platform?
I will no longer be building anything for WordPress and I will be steering any clients and others who ask what platform to use AWAY from WordPress at every opportunity I get.
Rating: 1 star
Sad and disgusting that a plugin can be taken over like this. Undermines trust in the community and inflict damage on the WordPress ecosystem. It is totally unethical and undermines the open-source philosophy. S
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Keep things #opensource
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I’ve been a loyal user of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) for years and have used the PRO version for several of my sites for clients and personal ones, tons of it. It’s disheartening to see the forced take over into SCF (Security Caterpillar Forklift). This move undermines the trust within the WordPress community. The forced takeover feels unethical and unnecessary, given ACF’s history of reliability and user satisfaction. WE WANT TO TAKE IT BACK!
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This whole situation is a complete pain for everyone working with WP and the plugin that makes it a CMS.
I thought it was great when Eliot sold ACF to Delicious. It had likely become too much for a solo effort and Delicious looked like a great match. I didn’t even notice it passed ownership to WPE until this mess started. Either way WPE, like Delicious, have done a superb job with ACF.
The annoying thing is that Matt always surrounds himself with “yes men”, hence Gutenberg continuing to be shoved on everyone despite how poorly received it is and disliked by most developers. Now with this WPE fiasco, he is making rounds of voluntary redundancies to keep people around him that agree with his questionable ethics. It’s all very cultish. Someone close to him needs to be frank.
WP was once an unbeatable product. ?
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I don’t support this war against WP engine. Don’t know how you could take a plugin over like this and get away with it. ?? Anyway you forgot to change the slug /advanced-custom-fields/.
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I don’t support this hate war that is hurting the WP community.
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This is a sad situation that a plugin can be taken over like this. It undermines trust in the community and has inflicted untold damage on the WordPress ecosystem. Whether it’s technically legal or not I really don’t know, but It is totally unethical and undermines the open-source philosophy. Sad.
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Low blow. I miss ACF. This is one of the scummiest things I’ve ever seen in the open source community. Shame on you.
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Taken over by force, then downgraded to an inferior product. I thought WP was supposed to be one of the good guys?
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sad
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As this is a fork of ACF, I expected feature parity, which is unfortunately not the case.
Are there any plans of adding gallery support in the near future?
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Its basic stolen, and that’s not ok. Dont think thats legal!
Rating: 1 star
Doesn’t work with gallery.
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SCF is ACF taken and renamed. Not ok in my opinion.
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This is not the original plugin, was auto “updated” to this different one. terrible
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Keep things #opensource!
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Полностью поддерживаю www.remarpro.com в этом вопросе. Плагин должен оставаться бесплатным в таком виде. Он уже очень давно стал частью wordpress и разработан он не с нуля, а используя базовый функционал wordpress, просто слегка расширил и задизайнил работу с мета-полями.
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Keep things #opensource
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Great plugin! Dig a little below the surface of the WP engine debate (while thinking like a business owner) and you’ll understand why things are going they way they are.
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No issue with reclaiming the plugin for the community. WP Engine have been an issue for years.
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This is not the plugin I installed. This was hijacked by WordPress.
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Why would you take over a plugin people chose to use. Suddenly I see a scammy name instead of good old ACF. This is quite misleading and unwanted. Plus its now broken for me with this error when I save a post: Updating failed. Could not update the meta value of footnotes in database.
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Nice Move!
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Creating a plugin with the same functionality is fine. But taking it from ACF is completely ridiculous.
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Even the basic the_field() doesn’t work anymore, and there’s no support to help.
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As a long-time user of Advanced Custom Fields, I’m incredibly disappointed to see what has happened to this once-great plugin. ACF was built by its original authors with dedication and passion for the WordPress community, embodying the true open-source spirit. But now, WordPress (or its corporate interests) has effectively stolen it from the hands of its creators.
This feels like a massive betrayal—not just to those of us who relied on ACF, but to the entire community that trusted in its original vision. Instead of supporting its continued growth through its authentic creators, WordPress has taken over, prioritizing profit and control. This move has shattered my trust in both ACF and WordPress.
It’s sad to see a powerful, community-driven tool turned into just another corporate asset. I can no longer recommend ACF, and this is a huge loss for the open-source ecosystem.
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Thank you so much Matt for giving us a secure, free and non-commercial plugin to our community to keep using our custom fields!! Kudos for you and your team!!
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This plugin was stolen
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Thank you, WordPress team, to contribute this plugin!
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