Matt Mullenweg’s Bull(enweg)
As speculated, under the guise of “security”, Matt forks WP Engine’s Advanced Custom Fields plugin to “Secure Custom Fields” and hijacks the WordPress.org plugin page for Advanced Custom Fields to promote the fork.
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 Custom Fields. SCF has been updated to remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem. ~Secure Custom Fields on WordPress.org
We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org. A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress. ~@wp_acf
Secure Custom Fields on WordPress.org was modified shortly after publication to recharacterize Jason Bahl’s move to Automattic:
