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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...