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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
Yeah. I don't know off-hand what the rule is for plugin updates, actually; I'd have to look it up. As far as WordPress itself is concerned, the updater definitely does not auto-push updates to major WP versions by default [0], and
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
Looking at the code, it's not clear to me how much has broken because of the fork, and how much has broken because of the "secure context" security patch that ACF have apparently also applied in their own version. That is, I
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
Wordpress has a (highly effective) auto-updates mechanism for security patches. It was extended a couple of years ago to automatically apply plugin updates for you if you opted in, and I think automatic plugin updates may now be the default
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
> This is particularly bananas as ACF is basically table stakes for doing anything beyond blogging. Not sure about this. I'd assume most Wordpress sites that make actual money are dependent on WooCommerce and Easy Digital Download
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
> The standard "LAMP" stack, for example, has Apache in it for the actual server, talking to PHP using a CGI interface. So if your PHP script crashes or hangs, the server itself is still up, and capable of serving other clients
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
Yeah. I'm a long-time WP site developer. I actually really like Gutenberg (which a lot of critics seem to be suggesting is the first thing that should go in a fork). I'm broadly supportive of e.g. bringing WP-GraphQL and its devel
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
OK so: 1) WordPress clearly lacks functionality like ACF that belongs in core 2) Many developers clearly like ACF 3) Many do not (it's messy in the DB, if you ask me) 4) Core functionality that was if not API-compatible, at least API-f
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by sgdfhijfgsdfgds 2y ago
First off, no, it did absolutely not do the same thing. It was a polemic question, sure, but it was a specific criticism of a technology and its proponents. I did not make any claims about myself at all, until I was separately accused of