Automattic cloned WP Engine’s paid ACF Premium plugin and is distributing it for free. Many in the WordPress community disapprove of this action, expressing concerns that it undermines the plugin and ...

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) WordPress plugin with over 2 million installations announced the release of a security update, version 6.2.5 that patches a vulnerability, the severity of which is not ...

On October 12, 2024 local time, Mullenweg announced that he would fork ACF into a new plugin called 'Secure Custom Fields.' Mullenweg cited the fact that ACF updates are now done directly from the WP ...

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” resulting from WP Engine’s legal moves. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg calls it “a rare and unusual situation” ...

A WordPress plugin with over 2 million active installations left its users open to an alarming security flaw. The popular Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by WP Engine allows WordPress admins to ...

The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues, with Mullenweg announcing that WordPress is “forking” a plug-in developed by WP Engine. Specifically, ...

A popular plugin for the Wordpress website builder with more than two million active installs carried a severe flaw which allowed threat actors to steal sensitive data from visitors and, in some cases ...

Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg also have to quit interfering with WP Engine’s ACF plugin. Automattic and its CEO Matt Mullenweg also have to quit interfering with WP Engine’s ACF plugin. is a ...