ACF just got taken over! What should you use?

[nigelhancock]

It's not a takeover, it's a hijack which makes a mockery of the repository system. I would urge all user to stick with the real ACF if, for no other reason, than to show respect and loyalty not just to WPE but also the original Australian developers. If Automaticc were to have forked ACF and released it into the repo as a new SCF plugin then, hey, that's their perogative but, to mislead users by retaining ACF reviews etc. stinks, in my opinion. Nothing short of a Hijack.

[rickywibowo]

no save button on scf upgraded, bugs?

[scottgroves]

Always a bloomin legend for your news n hacks 🏅

[svennorris]

Not sure if this is related but I came back to update a client's site an hour ago and noted that ACF Widgets is now deprecated and I'm not sure what to do now...Maybe a video covering this? :)

[memyselfandi]

Thanks for this -- I updated it yesterday and got SCF -- didn't realise it had actually changed. Just downloaded it, upgraded it and it's back, and working. Not interested in the drama frankly, just don't want the end user to be impacted.

[mahonimakkaroni]

I could imagine that Matt will integrate some Pro features into SCF in the next step. This would hurt WPEngine even more, because ACF Pro would become superfluous for many.

[celestialnubian]

I'm with ACF. I will not be using Matt's Stolen Custom Fields.

[Kc-cofp]

I don’t know if this has anything to do with wp org but I’ve just tired to upload the ACF file onto my Wordpress plugins and it keeps on being block and a redirect page pops up saying “The link you followed has expired” 😢

[KaiBuskirk]

Yep… crazy king Matt is on the move…
We all knew this could happen… the king took what he wanted as his own… in the beginning or the end it’s his kingdom… lol…

I don’t want to get in the drama of it… lol 😂 but we are bro… we are all in! Much Love Dig all your streams!

[PicSta]

Out of sync... the best at the end. Haha! Btw, Imran, really enjoyed being part of your live yesterday. Felt almost like in good old times, brother.

[jayskunkworks]

I'm trying to piece together WHY this all happened and who to side with.

[heinz_beyers]

Are they all out of their minds? Seriously, don’t they have better things to worry about? In the end, it’s us, the users, who are stuck dealing with the fallout. Typical.

[lucajacovig]

there is jet engine from Crocoblock, at my agency we use it very much

[GeneralKnowledgeEcosystem]

Also fork the pro version and make it available as open source. Wordpress and it's repository should be free.

[graham.cathcart]

Go for the better, and in long term better and cheaper - Jet Engine and Crocoblock

[John.Rearden]

You have a right to your opinion but directing new users to ACF and advising existing free acf users to upgrade from ACF is highly dubious when there is an ongoing feud and the dust is yet to settle.

[antonichristian]

Appalling un-professionalism from the thief ego-driven man-child Mad Matt again. Thanks for the info Imran!

[dianake]

How come the other big players in WP environment, plugins that make more that 400 mil maybe, don't act firmly on this horrible highjack? It's so wrong in all ways. Updating a plugin its almost an automatic action, and if it's a reliable plugin like ACF, you just do it with eyes closed, how could you guess at one point there must be something fishy. Some doy I might update Elementor and actually I might get ElementUM instead ! This is really bad and iit shows how vulnerable we are if a certain Matt guy gets upset.

[BS-zpqk]

to be honest, it's been a long time coming after all the $hit that WP engine is pulling. They deserve this. Wordpress is supposed to be an open source and WP engine shouldnt be doing this