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The official wp announcement of this said “we don’t plan on doing this to other plugins.” lol. anyone think they pinky promise? More like: build on Wordpress and unless you kiss the ring some guy named Matt will disappear your business.


Exactly. He also ends his post with a "separate" boast about poaching one if WPE's engineers. It's so obvious that this is just a giant FU to WPE and nothing else

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/


The key word here is "plan".


https://x.com/WordPress/status/1845180576531468375

> Hey @WordPress. Are there any further plugins that we can expect to be forked?

> There are no others we're aware of at this time, but you are welcome to suggest some.


I thought that was satire, but they actually asked for suggestions…



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