10/14/2024
In case you didn't know, there's a heated battle between WP Engine the developer of the popular plugin Advanced Custom Fields and Automattic, the company behind Wordpress. While we love wordpress and use it for almost every website we build, recent actions by Automattic set a dangerous precedent.
The ACF Plugin, (which we use on many projects), and is developed by WP Engine, has be forcibly taken over by Automattic.
WP Engine has released a fix for this take over to ensure that existing users of the plugin remain on genuine versions.
In the coming days we'll be working with our clients to update their websites to the genuine version.
You can read more about this here:
We were saddened and appalled by Matt Mullenweg’s actions this morning appropriating the Advanced Custom Fields plugin that our ACF team has been actively