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Wordpress got so popular because it is free and open-source. But the actions of Matt Mullenweg, the man who leads the Wordpress foundation, raises questions about its dependability.
It would be an understatement to say that Wordpress is popular. The free and open-source content management system is estimated to power nearly 42.9% of all websites on the internet. But the recent actions of its cofounder Matt Mullenweg and the non-profit organisation that owns it, is putting the software’s legitimacy and dependability in jeopardy.
Mullenweg last Saturday announced that Wordpress.org, the non-profit, has taken over ACF, a popular Wordpress plugin, to “remove commercial upsells and fix a security problem.”
ACF or Advanced Custom Fields is a plugin that lets Wordpress users add custom content fields for when existing generic …
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