General Wordpress VS WP Engine

[Time Wizard Cosmo]

WP Engine added this to its footer over the last week:

"WP Engine is a proud member and supporter of the community of WordPress® users. The WordPress® trademark is the intellectual property of the WordPress Foundation, and the Woo® and WooCommerce® trademarks are the intellectual property of WooCommerce, Inc. Uses of the WordPress®, Woo®, and WooCommerce® names in this website are for identification purposes only and do not imply an endorsement by WordPress Foundation or WooCommerce, Inc. WP Engine is not endorsed or owned by, or affiliated with, the WordPress Foundation or WooCommerce, Inc."

The latest viable records from the Wayback Machine are from September 26 and this footer addition does not exist.

I just find it interesting they would add this in the middle of everything that is happening.

I think it's smart for them to clarify, the whole situation sucks though. Very "mom and dad are fighting" vibes, everyone loses in this.

 

[Cedric]

Thought I'd share some more things I've found:

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https://www.wpgraphql.com/2024/10/07/wpgraphql-becomes-a-canonical-plugin-my-move-to-automattic

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Matt's gone and initiated a hostile takeover of ACF:

Secure Custom Fields

On behalf of the WordPress security team, I am announcing that we are invoking point 18 of the plugin directory guidelines and are forking Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) into a new plugin, Secure Cus…

wordpress.org

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[Time Wizard Cosmo]

On the ACF homepage:

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[Cedric]

On the ACF homepage:

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Matt's really breaking his own windows. There's no stop to this guy.

 

[Cpvr]

Wordpress just stated this on their Twitter:

“If
WP Engine dropped its lawsuits, apologized, and got in good standing with its trademark use, you are welcome to have access to the plugin directory listing.

In the meantime, Secure Custom Fields is a community plugin and open for contribution. We know you can't log into .org right now, but if you have any code changes you'd like to make get in touch and we'll set up an alternative pathway for you. We want the best, most secure code for our users.

“

 

[Time Wizard Cosmo]

I thought Matt was known as the "we welcome forks" guy... He could have just done that and probably seen as taking a higher road. What just happened was they hijacked the ACF slug on wordpress.org, 2+ million installs and all of their customer reviews. Seems more hostile than necessary but I won't pretend to know all of it.

Wonder if there's a WordPress fork in the near future...

ACF | ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

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

www.advancedcustomfields.com

What a mess. And that Tweet is 100% going to shown as an exhibit in the lawsuit.

 

[capnsquarepants]

I'm pushing for my company to move towards alternative CMSes, such as Directus, or even gasp Drupal. For my own personal sites, I'm moving to Ghost, or ClassicPress.

 

[2TonWaffle]

The best thing that can happen is for Matt to cease all communications via written, interviews, and replies. The only person who has damaged the Wordpress community is him. The trust for plugin and theme devs is being eroded as Matt can make the sole decision in whether a popular plugin can/will be taken over by Wordpress. The longer this goes on, many freelancer clients and the agencies who rely on Wordpress will start to look into other CMSs as the single point of instability, Matt, can cause so much damage.

 

[Cedric]

The best thing that can happen is for Matt to cease all communications via written, interviews, and replies. The only person who has damaged the Wordpress community is him. The trust for plugin and theme devs is being eroded as Matt can make the sole decision in whether a popular plugin can/will be taken over by Wordpress. The longer this goes on, many freelancer clients and the agencies who rely on Wordpress will start to look into other CMSs as the single point of instability, Matt, can cause so much damage.

Agreed. It's ridiculous and he's power hungry. I hope in court these wrongfully acquisitions are being penalized and brought back to their original developer. But what I hope the most, is that other developers take notes and know this can happen to them as well. So in that regards, maybe we'll see a new CMS rising soon.

 

[2TonWaffle]

Agreed. It's ridiculous and he's power hungry. I hope in court these wrongfully acquisitions are being penalized and brought back to their original developer. But what I hope the most, is that other developers take notes and know this can happen to them as well. So in that regards, maybe we'll see a new CMS rising soon.

Out of curiosity, I was looking at some alternatives and Craft CMS, Webflow, and October seem to be just as capable for people who would want to look into Wordpress-like features. There's also Ghost which is more focused on blogging and newsletter publications.